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A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. ~Bernard de Fontenelle

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? ~Yevgeny Zamyatin

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. ~Immanuel Kant

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. ~Johann Pestalozzi

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. ~Sigmund Freud

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. ~Salvador Dali

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. ~V.S. Pritchett

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. ~Walter Savage Landor

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. ~Doug Larson

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ~Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. ~Bertrand Russell

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. ~Doug Larson

Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking. ~H.W. Byles

What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise. ~Kitty O'Neill Collins

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. ~William Shakespeare

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. ~John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. ~Joseph Roux