"It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland."

"I am happy and content because I think I am."

"He turned from the sight of human ignorance and human fate and the sea eating the ground we stand on, which, had he been able to contemplate it fixedly might have led to something; and found consolation in trifles so slight compared with the august theme just now before him that he was disposed to slur that comfort over, to deprecate it, as if to be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes."

"Não é verdade que a felicidade é aquilo que procuramos sem nunca sermos capazes de a reconhecer?"

"The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature"

"…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy."

"Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money."

"Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances."

"Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story."

"That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards."

"I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything."

"In the West, for example, people believe they must 'pursue happiness' as if it were some kind of a flighty bird that is always out of reach. In the East, we believe we are born with happiness and one of life's important takes, my mother told me, is to protect it."

"I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun."

"Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be miserable."

"How to Find Your Joylah1. Try new things2. Be open to new friends3. Visit new places4. Listen to new ideas5. Remember each day is a new day6. And it's really no big deal if beads get mixed up every once in a while"

"..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options."

"Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world."

"You know, when you're unhappy you don't have the strength left to take care of others. But it doesn't mean you don't love them."

"We were so happy."

"People with the most interests live, not only longest, but happiest."

"A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted."

"I had decided to stop chasing the money, and start chasing the passion."