Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
—John Stuart Mill
When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.
—Joseph Roux
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
—Phyllis Diller
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
—J. M. Barrie
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
—Milan Kundera
She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface.
—Diane Chamberlain in The Lost Daughter
If you observe a really happy man, you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden.… He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar stud that has rolled under the dressing table.
—W. Beran Wolfe
My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
—Robert Ingersoll
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
—Walter Savage Landor
How could one person, who'd proven to be so inherently bad for me, so wrong, still be so utterly necessary for my happiness?
It wasn't fair.
—R.K. Lilley in Lovely Trigger
I think being happy isn't about the big moments, like when you graduate from college or get that job you've been wanting. It's the small moments that take your breath away and make you truly happy, like the first time you see your newborn's face, or when you meet someone who could be your soulmate.
—Ilsa Madden-Mills in Very Bad Things
Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they're like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they're a curse.
—John Marsden in The Dead of Night
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
—Jacques Yves Cousteau
I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.
—Carl Hilty in Happiness: Essays on the Meaning of Life
The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their souls. On the one hand, there is the happiness which comes from wealth, honor, the enjoyment of life, from health, culture, science, or art; and, on the other hand, there is the happiness which is to be found in a good conscience, in virtue, work, philanthropy, religion, devotion to great ideas and great deeds.
—Carl Hilty in Happiness: Essays on the Meaning of Life