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" There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it. "

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" I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields. "

" It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator. "

" Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. "

Alphonse de Lamartine

" To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless. "

Stefan Sagmeister

" I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on. "

Carrie Underwood

" I think a lot of people think I'm either unintelligent because I'm a very happy person and I have a lot of energy or that it's a fake happiness, like fake energy. I completely understand that because it's a lot to handle, and I am a very emotional human being. "

" Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek happiness and to avoid misery in this world - and there clearly are - then there are right and wrong answers to questions of morality. "

" Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. "

" Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. "

Robert Staughton Lynd

" Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. "

" Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream. "

Rosalia de Castro

" Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. "

" You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness. "

" The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. "

" Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. "

" Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not. "

Valerie Bertinelli

" When ambition ends, happiness begins. "

" Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself. "

" It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace. "

George Bernard Shaw

" Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you. "

" Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others. "

" There is no happiness outside of ourselves. "

Bryant H. McGill

" Happiness and suffering are feelings - parts of our mind - and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must improve our understanding of the mind. "

" We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends. "

" We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. "

Pierre Corneille

" The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky. "

" Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. "

" Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it. "