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| Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed. | | Bertrand Russell | |
| Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. | | Carl Gustav Jung | |
| Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. | | Bertolt Brecht | |
| False happiness is like false money; it passes for a long time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss. | | Alexander Pope | |
| For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy | | Bertrand Russell | |
| Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are - they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending | | Samuel Butler | |
| Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient | | Aristotle | |
| Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually | | Stephen R. Covey | |
| Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves. | | Helen Keller | |
| Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought; it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it. | | John Burroughs | |
| Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. | | Leo Rosten | |
| Happiness consists more in the 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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| Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. | | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
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| 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 | |
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