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Happy is he who can forget what cannot be anymore changed.
Johann Strauss II / 





We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 





Very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
Charles de Montesquieu - Persian Letters / 





Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Ludwig van Beethoven / 





Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire / 





They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius / 





Happy, if we can unite the boundaries of the different species of philosophy, by reconciling profound enquiry with clearness, and truth with novelty!
David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding / 





There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Euripides / 





I have only one passion, that for light, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and which has the right to happiness.
Émile Zola - J'accuse… ! / 





He recognized in himself that power to forget which only children have, and geniuses, and the innocent. Innocent, overwhelmed by joy, he understood at last that he was made for happiness.
Albert Camus / 





Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.
Denis Diderot / 





The kind of happiness I want consists, not so much in doing what I wish, as in not doing what I don't wish.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau / 





The necessity of pursuing true Happiness is the foundation of liberty.
John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding / 





There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
Denis Diderot / 





Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.
Albert Camus / 





The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.
Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus / 





Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.
Publius Vergilius Maro - Aeneid / 





The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less upon their dispositions than their fortunes.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 





You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus / 





But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus / 





The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo / 





You great star, what would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine?
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra / 





Not only were we happy, but we knew it.
Rudyard Kipling / 





In the happiness of others I seek my own.
Pierre Corneille - Le Cid / 





There is no shame in preferring happiness.
Albert Camus - The Plague / 





The real name of happiness is contentment.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel - Journal intime / 





I told myself that as long as there were books I could be sure of being happy.
Simone de Beauvoir - Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter / 





To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.
Gottfried Leibniz / 





If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy / 






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