Quotes on Happiness - Can't Live Without Them!

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.
- Sydney J. Harris

You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who makes people happy, but inside he's real sad. Also, he has severe diarrhea.
- Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
- William Hazlitt

Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
- Robert Anson Heinlein

Happiness is not a circus clown rolling around in a big tractor tire so that his arms and legs form 'spokes.' Happiness is when he stops.
- Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
- Napolian Hill

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; all may live above the troubles of life; worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.
- Newell Dwight Hillis

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

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
- Eric Hoffer

He's happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay.
- Horace

If you're trying to remember a happy memory, don't think back to a time when you were ALSO thinking of a happy memory, because man, how long does this go on?!
- Jack Handey (Deep Thoughts)