“To be happy--one must find one's bliss”

“The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's happiness, the happiness of others.”

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship

“One must dare to be happy.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

“… the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

“It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

“Happiness must be grown in one's own garden.”

Mary Engelbreit (1952) American illustrator

“Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.”

Anthony de Mello (1931–1987) Indian writer

“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love, to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness — I hope you're getting this down.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“Staying as I am, one foot in one country and the other in another, I find my condition very happy, in that it is free.”

René Descartes (1596–1650) French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist