We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. _ Friedrich Koenig

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -- Thomas Jefferson

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Sadness is not the beginning or end of a process, but the lag between pleasure and happiness. ― Isra

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Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole. ― John Irving

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It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

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The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there. ― Jude Morgan

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For some people, she thought, trials were only temporary; they sailed towards happiness through the roughest weather. ― Emma Donoghue

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Hope was tricky like water. Somehow it always found a way in. ― Leigh Bardugo

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Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. — Joanne Harris

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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

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