When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.
Thucydides
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Some pursue happiness - others create it.
Unknown
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go
Oscar Wilde
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Herman Cain
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
Frederick Keonig
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert Heinlein
The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom
Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony
Unknown
The real happiness of life is in doing 'karma'.
Rig Veda
Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act nonvirtuously, suffering results.
Sakyong Mipham
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Martha Washington
If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.
Thich Nhat Hanh
I have observed that religious practice is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness itself. I have also suggested that, whether a person practices religion or not, the spiritual qualities of love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, humility and so on are indispensable
Dalai Lama