Do you know these classic quotes about happiness?

"The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness...the very motion of our life is towards happiness." ~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer

“Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.” ~Victor Hugo

“If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.” ~Chinese proverb

“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ~Abraham Lincoln

“Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.” ~Dale Carnegie

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” ~Oscar Wilde

 “Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” ~Thomas Jefferson

“True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.” ~Ben Johnson

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.” ~Carl Gustav Jung

“Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.” ~Norman Vincent Peale

“Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.” ~Mark Twain

“Happiness is not a state to arrive at, rather, a manner of traveling.” ~Samuel Johnson

“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.” ~Bertrand Russell

“To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.” ~Albert Camus

“Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.” ~Dale Carnegie

“There is this difference between happiness and wisdom that he, who thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.” ~Charles Caleb Colton

“We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.” ~Confucius

“Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.” ~David Hume

“Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.” ~Robert Green Ingersoll

“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.” ~Thomas Jefferson

“We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.” ~William James 

"The truth is, happiness is a skill - it's not just something that drops out of the sky, it's something that you can do actively." ~Richard Bandler