Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

—Helen Keller

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

—Charles Kingsley

The secret of happiness is something to do.

 —John Burroughs

This is the true joy in life — being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

 —George Bernard Shaw

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure not this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

 —William Butler Yeats

If in our daily life, we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

 —Thich Nhat Hanh

There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all.

—anonymous

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.

—Mark Twain

Now and then it is good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

 —Guillaume Apollinaire

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

 —Samuel Levenson

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now.

—Zig Ziglar

Happiness makes up height what it lacks in length.

 —Robert Frost