"Generosity enjoys the happiness of others, as though it were responsible for it."
(The Comte de Lautréamont, Poésies)

"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales ... we must fight in order to obtain it."
(Alexander Dumas)

"Happiness is pleasure without repentance."
(Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910)

"Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime."
(The Marquis de Sade)

"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life away in fruitless efforts."
(Samuel Johnson)

"I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world."
(Ani Difranco)

"If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time."
(Edith Wharton)

"If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles - on her own nose all the time."
(Josh Billings)

"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it."
(Andrew A. Rooney)

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."
(George Orson Welles)