The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

Henry David Thoreau

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Henry Ward Beecher

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Kurt Cobain

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

Euripides

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Tacitus

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Jean de La Fontaine

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

Jean de La Fontaine

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Benjamin Franklin

Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

Benjamin Franklin

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Jane Austen

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Thomas Jefferson

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let us not forget that human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.

Albert Einstein

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Albert Einstein

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

William Makepeace Thackeray

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

Oscar Wilde

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

Abraham Lincoln

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Charles Dickens

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

Oscar Wilde

We don’t laugh because we’re happy, we’re happy because we laugh.

William James

When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

James Joyce