If you want to be happy, be. -Leo Tolstoy
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. -Mark Twain
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. -Cynthia Nelms
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. -Fyodor Dostoevsky
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 a paradise in a few years. -Bertrand Russell
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. -James Openheim
A happy thought is like a seed that sows positivity for all to reap. -Miriam Muhammad
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. -Doug Larson
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. -Charles L. Morgan
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? -Yevgeny Zamyatin