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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? – Albert Camus

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. – Thomas Jefferson

You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you’ll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance. – Lavetta Sue Wegman

Happiness is the natural flower of duty. – Phillips Brooks

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God. – Jean Ingelow

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty – four crowded hours of the day. – W. Beran Wolfe

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

Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other. – Norman Bradburn

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. – Josh Billings

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. – Charles Kingsley