When I was in grade school, they told me to write down what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down happy.
They told me I didn't understand the assignment,
I told them they didn't understand life
~Unknown
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
~Bertrand Russell
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
~St. Augustine
There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.
~Stephen Chbosky
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
~C. P. Snow
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
~Ernest Hemingway
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
~Ayn Rand
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
~Logan Pearsall
Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.
~Charles de Montesquieu
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
~ Dr. Seuss
Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized.
~G. K. Chesterton
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