Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.
-Jules Renard
"The Journal of Jules Renard"
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-Gabriel García Márquez
We know, how to build a beautiful house, but we don’t know how to live within it happily.
-J. Krishnamurti
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
"The Stars My Destination"
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and six, result misery.
-Charles Dickens
Happy are those who work for peace: God will call them his children.
-Jesus Christ
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
-Francis Bacon
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
