What Is Happiness?

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

You can't change the past, and you can ruin a perfectly good present, by worrying about the future.
Anonymous

Cut not the wings of your dreams, for they are the heartbeat and the freedom of your soul.
Flavia

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Anonymous

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people
Borge, Victor

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
Cynthia Nelms

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucious

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
Scottish proverb

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving,
make every day a holiday and celebrate just living.
Amanda Bradley

Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.
Anonymous

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The greatest happiness that you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
William Saroyan

The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings
A Child's Garden Of Verses

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
The 14th Dalai Lama