First and foremost you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth happiness always comes.

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.

How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

Power after love is the first source of happiness.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.