If you are unhappy, you won't be happy.

You don't need to be dirty or sensual. The wise men of the past all thought that only intellectual happiness was the most satisfying and lasting.

-Mao Mu

Happiness lies not in things, but in ourselves.

-Richard Wagner beauty

The secret of happiness is to expand interest as much as possible, and to react to things as much as possible out of goodwill rather than malicious interest.

-Bertrand Russell

Since happiness is what human beings and animals pursue together, in a sense, it is the highest good.

-Aristotle

Happiness is a luxury. If you want to taste it, the indispensable condition is that you have no anxiety. If the heart is uneasy-even if it is slightly threatened, happiness will disappear immediately.

-Stendhal