„Happiness can not come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done.“

— Theodore Roosevelt

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„The world is so unhappy because it is ignorant of the true Self. Man's real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in the true Self. Man's search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true Self. The true Self is imperishable; therefore, when a man finds it, he finds a happiness which does not come to an end.“
— Ramana Maharshi
„Art never comes from happiness.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within“
— Helen Keller
„Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.“
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
„Americans should never come to Europe,' she said, and tried to laugh and began to cry, 'it means they never can be happy again. What's the good of an American who isn't happy? Happiness was all we had.“
— James Baldwin
„It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good.“
— Helen Keller