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It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
-Desiderius Erasmus
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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters -- where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.
-Erik H. Erickson
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Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.
-Joseph Farrell
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Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.
-William Feather
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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
-William Feather
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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.
-Johann G. Fichte
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To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.
-Johann G. Fichte
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Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
-Henry Fielding
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Yet, as great joy, especially after a sudden change and revolution of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue...
http://www.literaturepage.com/read/tom-jones-914.html
-Henry Fielding
The History of Tom Jones, a foundling
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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
-Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
-Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
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Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good
-John Fountain
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Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
-Anne Frank
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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means -- either may do -- the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
-Benjamin Franklin
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A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
-Benjamin Franklin
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The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
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One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.
-Sigmund Freud
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
-Thomas Fuller
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
-John W. Gardner
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The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.
-Theodosia Garrison
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Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.
-Harold S. Geneen
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There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!
-Robert Gilfillan
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Books about Happiness
