“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”

“Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.”

Brian K. Vaughan (1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator

“It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved.”

Jack White (1975) American musician and record producer

“Lucid intervals and happy pauses.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

“There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness… is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase ‘’the pursuit of happiness'’ is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.”

Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990) English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist

“It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness.”

Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953) American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature

“The pursuit of happiness is a lifelong struggle.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

“The pursuit of happiness never ends.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

“It’s better to be happy than in pursuit of it.”

Ron English (1959) American artist