Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible. --William Jordan (in Cake But No Presents Please)

It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on. --Sharon Salzberg (in Eighty Year Study On Happiness & Giving)

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. --Mahatma Gandhi (in An Unforgettable Walk Through The Slums)

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day. --W. Beran Wolfe (in The Geography of Bliss)

Long after a deed is done, the trace or momentum of the intention left behind it remains as a seed, conditioning our future happiness or unhappiness. --Gil Fronsdal (in Intentional Chocolate)

Happiness is an inside job --William Arthur Ward (in 52 Weeks, 52 Jobs)

There is a living to give instead of to get. As you concentrate on the giving, you discover that just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving -- even the most wonderful things like health and happiness and inner peace. --Peace Pilgrim (in 29-Day Giving Challenge)

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime! --Lawrence G. Lovasik (in A Daughter's First Words)

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime! --Lawrence G. Lovasik (in A Daughter's First Words)

Happiness is a continuous creative activity. --Baba Amte (in What Makes Us Happy?)

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else. --Peyton Conway March (in Designing For Generosity)

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. --Dale Carnegie (in A Birthday Celebration for Every Child)

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. --Buddha (in The Altruism of Economics)

Happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings. --James Allen (in The Power of Place)

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. --Margaret Lee Runbeck (in This Is Your Brain On Happiness)

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. --John Dewey (in Three Secrets To A Happy Workplace)

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. --Norman MacEwan (in Cleaning Shoes, Making A Difference)

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. --Eleanor Roosevelt (in A Child Entrepreneur Gives Back)

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. --St. Augustine (in Practicing the Science of Happiness)

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. --Eleanor Roosevelt (in 10 Things Science Says Will Make You Happy)

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. --Charles H. Spurgeon (in Happiness Wards Off Heart Disease)

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being. --Carl Jung (in Art from Ashes)

Joy and happiness are the indicators of balance in a human machine. --Walter Russell (in The World's Happiest People)

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. --George Santayana (in 9 Ways to be Happy in the Next 30 Minutes)

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside. --Tenzin Palmo (in Tenzin Palmo: Cave in the Snow)

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. --Buddha (in A Law for Cooperation)

Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity. --Frank Pittman III (in Beyond the Paycheck)

Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them. --Jack Brown (in 4 Ways to a Happier Workday)

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. --Helen Keller (in Engineering Solutions for Africa's Rural Poor)

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness. --Mark Twain (in The 3 A's of Awesome)

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. --Ayn Rand (in Like Water From a Hummingbird)

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. --Margaret Lee Runbeck (in 10 Keys to Happier Living)

Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. --Robert Green Ingersoll (in 5 Ways of Spending Time -- toward Happiness)

When I am happy, I see the happiness in others. When I am depressed, I notice that people's eyes look sad. When I am weary, I see the world as boring and unattractive. --Steve Chandler (in Learning Tranquility at Stanford)

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. --Margaret Lee Runbeck (in Happiness: Getting Our Priorities Straight)

Happiness can only be found if you free yourself from all other distractions. --Saul Bellow (in 15 Things You Should Give Up To Be Happy)

Happiness is like jam, you can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself. --Vern McLellan (in The Business 9 Women Kept Secret For 30 Years)

Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time. --Andrew Weil (in How to Be Happy: The Fine Print)

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others. --Lew Wallace (in My Daughter's Noble Sacrifice)

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. --Maurice Chevalier (in Happiness the Hard Way)

Giving brings happiness at every stage of its expression. --The Buddha (in The Generosity Paradox)

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. --Richard Bach (in The Gift That Matters)

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. --Richard Bach (in The Gift That Matters)

How do you say "thank you" for sunshine or health...for clear days or gentle rains...for happiness, joy or love? You say it by sharing what you have. You say it by making the world a better place in which to live. --Thomas D. Willhite (in Gratitude, Gifting and Grandpa)

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. --Storm Jameson (in Six Ways to Sustainable Happiness)

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness. --William E. Gladstone (in 25 Choices that Lead to Happiness)

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. --Alfred Lord Tennyson (in Debunking the Myths of Happiness)

People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human -- in the fact that so much of what we desire for our happiness and need for our survival comes at a heavy cost. --Michael Pollan (in Rituals for Wastelands)

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. --Eleanor Roosevelt (in How to Make Giving Feel Good)

"When you give of yourself, and genuinely care for others, the universe will provide that love, care and happiness for you too." --Anne-Marie Bauer (in Lessons In Living From A Cat Named Ali)