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" So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. "

Booth Tarkington

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" With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally. "

" What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach. "

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

" Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. "

Norman Vincent Peale

" One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life. "

" Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

" There is no happiness outside of ourselves. "

Bryant H. McGill

" Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness. "

" Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. "

Fyodor Dostoevsky

" There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. "

Liberty Hyde Bailey

" I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude. "

" Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. "

" The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. "

" Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all. "

Russell M. Nelson

" Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "

" What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning. "

Martin Seligman

" Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. "

" Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

" Anyone who starts piercing the bubble of happiness, get 'em out of your life. "

" Our democracy is dependent on people who passionately cherish the ideals of a democracy. Every man is created equal with an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's a wonderful idea, and it takes people who cherish that idea to be actively involved in the process. "

" Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. "

" There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. "

" Being charitable provides a boost to your psyche that is tough to replicate in any other way. But note that although any charity will happily take your money, you can give in other ways and still reap the same happiness reward. Volunteering and donating your old or unused belongings have the same result. "

" A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? "

Albert Einstein

" I think when we shot 'Tokyo Drift' I was a little too young to really understand what made Han who he is, and then I got older, and you start to make a little bit of money, and you realize that money will never buy you happiness. "

" That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. "

" Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past. "

" From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable. "

" My happiness is not dependent on others; it comes from within. Spiritual growth in a person is never encouraged, but it is important. I don't know why people want to judge others instead of doing their own thing. I firmly feel that I don't need to follow or live according to other people's rules. I like living life the way I want to. "

" There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. "

Anthony Trollope