Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
-Aristotle

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
- Madame De Maintenon

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things forother people.
- Dick Gregory

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one hasto do.
- Anonymous

You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
- Chinese Proverb

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
- Hasidic Proverb

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
- James Oppenheim

Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
- Spanish Proverb

Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
- Berthold Auerbach

The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
- Leo Rosten, American teacher and humorist

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
- Storm Jameson

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
- Margaret B. Runbeck

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
- Anonymous

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Allan K. Chalmers

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
-Alice Meynell

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
-Epictetus

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
-Benjamin Franklin

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

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
-John Stuart Mills

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come,—as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
-Thomas Fuller