"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

C. S. Lewis

“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.”

Margaret Storm Jameson

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

Mahatma Gandhi

“If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.”

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

“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

“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”

Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

Abraham Lincoln

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“Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.”

Benjamin Franklin

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“Man is the artificer of his own happiness.”

Henry David Thoreau

“Happiness – sometimes a gift, usually a choice.”

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“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”

Robert Frost