The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There is going to be stress in life, but it is your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one identity as a being of worth and dignity.

That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.

You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness.

I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

Happiness? No, it is not there for me.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.