"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself."

"those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy."

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time."

"I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."

"What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again."

"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind."

"Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong."

"Whoever is happy will make others happy."

"It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life"

"Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others."

"Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration."

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."

"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand."

"Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves."

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."

"I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve."

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."

"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up."

"I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy."

"When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."

"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."

"Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it."