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

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I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

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it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings. ― Daisaku Ikeda

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But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable. ― Dorothy Osborne

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Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. _ William D. Hoard

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He felt immense tenderness for her. He was sure that he would always love her, for my happiness and also my misfortune.

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Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want. _ Alan Cohen

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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. - Immanuel Kant

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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

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an ascetic might be a pauper, but he has ashrams where love, happiness, and prosperity overflow. ― Merlin Franco

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