“If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are”
Charles de Montesquieu
“The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.”
Agatha Christie
“Smile. You might be happier than you think.”
Rain Bojangles
“If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.”
“Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.”
William Wordsworth
“We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.”
Walter Savage Landor
“'Seek' happiness and you won't find it, 'Find' happiness and you'll get it.”
Anuroop Tyagi