The happiness of one own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include, as necessary to one own happiness, the happiness of others.

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they did not stop to enjoy it.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there is a one size fits all standard for happiness.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.