No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
—Helen Keller in Optimism
What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.
—Henny Youngman
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.
—Spike Milligan
This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
—Douglas Adams
Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
—Louis D. Brandeis
There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.
—David Benioff in When the Nines Roll Over
Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
—William Feather
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
—Albert Schweitzer
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
—George Bernard Shaw
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
—Anne Frank
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
—Benjamin Disraeli
The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you’re unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.
—Tom Robbins in Jitterbug Perfume
To forget oneself is to be happy.
—Robert Louis Stevenson
We all want to be happy, and we're all going to die. … You might say these are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.
—William Boyd
Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
—Swami Sivananda