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Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves.

- F. Emerson Andrews

Life is so brief that we should not glance either to far backwards or forwards ... therefore study how to fix our happiness in our glass and in our plate.

- Grimod de la Reyniere

Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

- Count Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi or Tolstoy

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

- Diogenes Laertius

It takes a highly intellectual individual to enjoy leisure ... Most of us had better count on working. What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement ... Few people overwork; plenty overeat, overworry, overdrink ... Few realize real joy and happiness of conquest. The basis of mental health for the average adult is more work, provided the work is not mere drudgery.

- Fay B. Nash

The most unproductive, empty, fruitless fellow in the world is the man with a barren heart. Happiness can never reach him, for nothing good and lasting can lodge in his heart. It is solid as a billiard ball. Contrast this man with his barren heart with the human that plays the game of life fairly and honestly and is willing to make others happy by his own sacrifices.

- F. D. Van Amburgh

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

- George Gordon

The art of contentment is the recognition that the most satisfying and the most dependably refreshing experiences of life lie not in great things but in little. The rarity of happiness among those who achieved much is evidence that achievement is not in itself the assurance of a happy life. The great, like the humble, may have to find their satisfaction in the same plain things.

- Edgar A. Collard

If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and perfection, he must tell you to make it a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you. or it is certain that whatever seeming calamity happens to you, if you thank and praise God for it, you will turn it into a blessing.

- Merlin Carothers

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

- Russell Baker