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| The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion | | Karl Marx | |
| The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty. | | Friedrich von Schiller | |
| The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. | | Victor Hugo | |
| The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. | | William Saroyan | |
| The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outside conditions | | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family | | Thomas Jefferson | |
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| The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. | | Elbert Hubbard | |
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| The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. | | Aristotle | |
| The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself. | | Publilius Syrus | |
| The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. | | T.S. Eliot | |
| The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. | | Ashley Montagu | |
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| The object of living is work, experience, happiness | | Henry Ford | |
| The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. | | Ernest Hemingway | |
| The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. | | John Mason Brown | |
| The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so. | | Blaise Pascal | |
| The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation. | | Samuel Johnson | |
