1. "This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy."
-Douglas Adams
2. "Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
3. "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
-Confucius
4. "The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."
-Arthur Schopenhauer
5. "Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."
-Charles Caleb Colton
6. "Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
7. "Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change."
-Friedrich Schiller
8. "When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened."
-Winston Churchill
9. "I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
-Douglas Adams
10. "Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it."
-Andy Rooney
11. "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
-James Oppenheim
12. "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
-Benjamin Disraeli
13. "The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."
-Martha Washington
14. "Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
-Albert Schweitzer
15. "Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy."
-Heraclitus
