Inspirational Quotes About Happiness

Happiness is elusive. We all chase it from the day we're born until the day we die. It's also a rapidly morphing emotion: meaning something completely different from each person to the next. Here are what a few notable quotable thinkers said about the slippery and unpredictable emotion.

"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

"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive," Henry Miller

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful," Albert Schweitzer

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory," Albert Schweitzer

"A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness," Fontenelle

"The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for," Allan K. Chalmers

"Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient," Aristotle

"Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others," Buddha

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time," Edith Wharton

"Happiness is a warm puppy," Charlie Brown creator Charles Schultz

"Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have," Anonymous

"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations," Edward De Bono

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself," Benjamin Franklin

"Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you," Fran Leibowitz

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city," George Burns

"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved," George Sand

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion," The Dalai Lama

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet," James Oppenheim

"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination," Mark Twain.