• "An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness." - Clara Barton Tweet
• "If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular." - Connie Nielsen Tweet
• "You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness." - Candace Bushnell Tweet
• "It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed." - Kin Hubbard Tweet
• "Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it." - Bernard Meltzer Tweet
• "I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that." - David Duchovny Tweet
• "For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants." - Jimmy Carter Tweet
• "My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so." - Robert Green Ingersoll Tweet
• "Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive." - Doug Coupland Tweet
• "If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman it would be, I think, an American cow." - William Lyon Phelps Tweet