The greatest happiness is the happiness that comes as a by-product of striving to do what must be done, even though sorrow is met in the doing.

The sense of existence is the greatest happiness.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.

[...] The source of happiness in ourselves [is] greater than that which arises from objects.

All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious, the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance — these open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss.

There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

[What, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness?]

The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy-not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call "following your bliss."

The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy — not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following your bliss.

It is a kind of happiness to know how unhappy we must be.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Linus Pauling