Charles Dickens

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

They’ve got no idea what happiness is, they don’t know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us–there is no life.

How often, for example, have you said or heard someone else say, “All I really want in this life is to be happy”? It sounds like a commonsense answer, but as a life goal, it is destined for failure. My dog, Barkley, wants to be happy. Does that mean that the two of you want the same things? I don’t think so. I’ll bet everything I own that you and Barkley define happiness very differently. So unless you’re willing to settle for someone scratching your belly and letting you sleep under the coffee table, you might want to be a little more precise about what you as a unique individual really want.

When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.

I think happiness is love.

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

The truth is that all of us can attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to its greatest extent.

If you want to be happy, be.

Action may not bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don’t allow the happy moment, because they’re so busy trying to get a happy life.

Relinquishing the delusional hope that we can or must be flawless allows us to seek happiness in the place it can be found: Our real, messy, imperfect experience

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

I love people who make me laugh.

I’ve found happiness in my work, but not in my private life. I had to take from my private life to make my public life successful. I had to make a lot of sacrifices. I was happy in Cardiff. I had a great time. Every Thursday there was a factory club; darts, dancing. I was happy until success entered my life, and then it was all downhill. Success spoilt me. It took away my happiness. My success became a barrier with my family. They couldn’t relate to me, and I couldn’t relate to them.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn’t got money.

Be happy; without reason.