A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others we could have a paradise in a few years.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment it is in the happiness of pursuit.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener I'm convinced of the opposite.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow and groans on seeing another's happiness.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

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.

Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves or rather in spite of ourselves.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.