30 famous phrases about happiness that will help you change your perspective

When we see the dark future, the quotes and thoughts of famous personalities throughout history about happiness can shed some light on us.

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The pursuit of happiness has been one of man's great motivations throughout history, if not the main one. But sometimes, he resists and seems not to be in any area of life. These thinkers have reflected on this emotion and how we can achieve it, even for a while.

1. Happiness depends on ourselves. Aristotle.
2. There is only one form of happiness in life: to love and to be loved. George Strand.
3. Whoever claims constant happiness and wisdom must conform to the paths. Confucius.
4. Joy lies in the joy of achievement and in the emotion of creative effort.Franklin D. Roosevelt.
5. Happiness appears when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Gandhi.
6. Happiness is within one, not next to someone. Marilyn Monroe.
7. There is only one passion: the passion for happiness. Denis Diderot.
8. The term "happiness" would lose all its meaning if it were not compensated by sadness. Carl Jung.
9. Peace begins with a smile. Teresa of Calcutta.
10. To forgive yourself is to be happy.Robert Louis Stevenson.
11. If you don't know which port you're sailing to, no kind of wind is favorable to you. Seneca.
12. The happiness of our lives depends on the quality of our thoughts. Marcus Aurelius.
13. Happiness cannot be obtained by wanting to be happy. It has to appear as an unintended consequence of pursuing a goal greater than oneself. Viktor Frankl.
14. Happiness is not something that is already done, it emanates from our own actions. Dalai Lama.
15. From time to time it is good to stop the pursuit of happiness and simply be happy. Guillaume Apollinaire.
16. The supreme happiness of life is knowing that you are loved by yourself or, more accurately, in spite of yourself. Victor Hugo.
17. Don't let your happiness depend on someone, because that person won't always be the way you think. Albert Einstein.  
18. Happiness consists in being free, that is, not desiring anything. Epictetus.
19. True happiness costs little. If it is expensive, it is not good class. René de Chateaubriand.
20. There is happiness in duty, even if it may not seem so. Jose Marti.
21. Happiness is not doing what you want, but wanting what you do. Jean Paul Sartre.
22. Happiness in smart people is the weirdest thing I know. Ernest Hemingway.
23. I never thought that in happiness there was so much sadness. Mario Benedetti.
24. Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. Mark Twain.
25. All happiness depends on courage and work, Honoré de Balzac.
26. Happiness is an allegory, the unhappiness of a Haruki Murakami story.
27. Joy is not in things, it is in us. Richard Wagner.
28. To have joy, one must share it. Lord Byron.
29. Joy is the philosopher's stone that turns everything into gold. Benjamin Franklin.
30. For every minute you're angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson.