“Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.”– Alphonse Karr Related Quotes “I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.”– Alfred Day Hershey “The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.”– Martha Washington “I’m fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes – the finer things of life – would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.”– Coretta Scott King