Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
-George Washington
Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.
-Marty Rubin
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Of Human Bondage"
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be
-Marcel Pagnol
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.
-Amit Ray
"Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style"
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
-John Barrymore
You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.
-Sri Chinmoy
We know, how to build a beautiful house, but we don’t know how to live within it happily.
-J. Krishnamurti
