848 – “It all comes to this: the simplest way to be happy is to do good. This is instant and infallible happiness.”

–Helen Keller

714 – “When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

–John Lennon [Attributed, likely Apocryphal]

455 – “I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point ‘if this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.”

–Kurt Vonnegut

393 – “Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.”

–Maya Angelou

299 – “I wish, as well as every body else, to be perfectly happy; but, like every body else, it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.”

–Edward Ferrars in Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility

251 – “It’s important to make someone happy and it’s important to start with yourself.”

–anonymous

227 – “The people that are there for you on your darkest nights are the ones worth spending your brightest days with.”

–anonymous

214 – “Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”

–Franz Kafka [attributed]

181 – “Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

–Jubal Harshaw in Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land*

161 – “I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter.”

–Paulo Coelho