“If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.”— Baron de Montesquieu, amazon.com
“The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.”— P.T. Barnum, amazon.com
“Happiness is not a tangible thing, it’s a byproduct of achievement. Achievement must be made against the possibility of failure, against the risk of defeat. It is no achievement to walk a tightrope laid flat on the floor. Where there is no risk, there can be no pride in achievement and, consequently…”— Ray Kroc, amazon.com
“You could perhaps say ‘happiness’ but ‘happiness’ is misleading, for it suggests continuous chirpiness and joy, whereas ‘fulfillment’ seems compatible with a lot of pain and suffering, which every decent life must by necessity have.”— Alain de Botton, dailystoic.com
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it’s something you design for the present.”— Jim Rohn, pinterest.com
“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”— Baruch Spinoza, amazon.com
“I am focusing on self-care and self-improvement. When I have a free block of time, I try to spend it on something that is important to me”— Elsie Larson, abeautifulmess.com
“I hope you remember that the scaffolding of joy is oftentimes shadows and doubt, and that's okay. Your joy and your success doesn't have to look like anyone else's.”— Roshani Chokshi, twitter.com
“I'm so lucky to be crazy happy in my life. And I think it's not so much that I'm happier now than ever; it's that I'm more content. I'm in the harbor of my life.”— Julia Roberts, oprah.com
“You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.”— Julia Roberts, theguardian.com
“When they say 'you're always unhappy Daria', what they mean is: 'You think Daria', I can tell because you don't smile.”— Glenn Eichler, Jane Lane, Wendy Hoopes, imdb.com
“Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don’t have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits—we’re all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn’t matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.”— Willie Nelson, parade.com
“Let the jerks of the world serve as the perfect example of what you don't want to be. You'll be a heck of a lot happier, and in the long run, there's a chance that other person at work will end up asking what your secret is. Why are you the happy one? In other words, don't let your thoughts think yo…”— Willie Nelson, amazon.com
“Happiness comes from within. You have the power to change your own mind-set so that all the negative, horrible thoughts that try to invade your psyche are replaced with happy, positive, wonderful thoughts.”— Ellen Degeneres, books.google.com
“Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.”— Ellen Degeneres, books.google.com
“So much in life comes down to choice: the choice of how to see that which we cannot choose.”— Gina Frangello, thenervousbreakdown.com
“True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving.”— Mark Manson, amazon.com