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| Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. | | John Dryden | |
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| How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. | | Ursula K. LeGuin | |
| I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars. | | William Shakespeare | |
| I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted. I did sort of think, you know, marriage did that. You see, I was brought up differently from the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy - that's it, successful, happy, and on time. | | Marilyn Monroe | |
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| I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite. | | Bertrand Russell | |
| I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. | | Groucho Marx | |
| If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence. | | Aristotle | |
| If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation. | | Anais Nin | |
| If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. | | Henry David Thoreau | |
| If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy | | Blaise Pascal | |
| If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation. | | Anais Nin | |
| If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. | | Josh Billings | |
| If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. | | Albert Einstein | |
