I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. ― Alexandre Dumas

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An unshared happiness is not happiness.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started. —Mark Twain

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Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give. ― Ben Carson

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It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own. ― Louis Zukofsky

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I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.

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Happiness is the best makeup. — Drew Barrymore

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If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. — Richard Bach

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Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right. ― Sarah Addison Allen

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It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. — Epictetus

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