* Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.
Channing Pollock

* That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.
Plutarch

* It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

* Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
William Bennett

* When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

* The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
William Lyon Phelps

* Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl Marx

* We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.
Abraham Lincoln

* We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda

* Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
Bernard Meltzer

* There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, And that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
Ogden Nash

* Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
Orison Swett Marden

* There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Dr. Samuel Johnson

* I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mill

* Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
Rose Lane

* Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.
William George Jordan