Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile. ― G.K. Chesterton

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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

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Evolution does not make happiness its goal; it aims simply at evolution and nothing else. ― Friedrich Nietzsche

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Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. ― E.L. Konigsburg

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I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. ― Audrey Hepburn

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To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness. – Robert Morley

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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

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You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness. ― Cyrus the Great

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Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.

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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

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