„Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that“

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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„No man is happy who does not think himself so.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy!“
— William Makepeace Thackeray
„If you're happy in a dream, does that count?“
— Arundhati Roy
„Happiness is the abscence of the striving for happiness.“
— Zhuangzi
„A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?“
— Albert Einstein
„One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day;similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.“
— Aristotle
„Happiness does not come from consumption of things.“
— Thich Nhat Hanh