Happiness Quotes

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

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 happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

I finally figured it out, I finally figured out how to find some peace and happiness. I sure would hate for the man upstairs to take me now. But at least I did figure it out.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings...It's something we make inside ourselves.

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

Love is a beautifier.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Happiness is anyone and anything that's loved by you.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave trails of gloom; others, trails of joy. Some leave trails of hate and bitterness; others, trails of love and harmony. Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism; others trails of faith and optimism. Some leave trails of criticism and resignation; others trails of gratitude and hope. What kind of trails do you leave?

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

I am a happy camper so I guess I'm doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.

Give light and people will find the way.

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked"”as I am surprisingly often"”why I bother to get up in the mornings.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

There is no path to Happiness. Happiness is the path. There is no path to Love. Love is the path. There is no path to Peace. Peace is the path.

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes.

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

And the tree was happy

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

Come clean with a child heartLaugh as peaches in the summer windLet rain on a house roof be a songLet the writing on your facebe a smell of apple orchards on late June.

The Master of Lifes been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal. Life and love go on, let the music play.

The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

I'm on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Success doesn't come to you… you go to it.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of each of your arms.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Happiness is an angel with a serious face

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.

Laughter is an instant vacation.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

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

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

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

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

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

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? — How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

In summer, the song sings itself.

Action is the antidote to despair.

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

I'd rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy — because we will always want to have something else or something more.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

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.

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

We are all happy if we but knew it.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Living well is the best revenge.

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

The right to happiness is fundamental.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

Comedy = tragedy + time.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes.

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

By happiness I mean here a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being. Happiness is also a way of interpreting the world, since while it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

What's done to children, they will do to society.

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing circumstances and the most bitter environment. It is the kind of happiness that grins when things go wrong and smiles through the tears. The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and give inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need of no outward stimulus.

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.

The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness

The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy and Serenity.

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you're gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Happiness is the ability to recognize it.

Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Only a few things are really important.

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

A good education is another name for happiness.

My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

It is with words as with sunbeams-the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

Seldom can the heart be lonely, If it seek a lonelier still; Self-forgetting, seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.

Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

Even if we can't be happy, we must always be cheerful.

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.

Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you're happy and believe in yourself.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last?

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Happiness is an inside job.

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

To live and let live, without clamor for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart - this is the sanity and perfection of living, and my human ideal.

The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you might lose. But regardless of the short-term outcome, the very fact of your continuing to struggle is proof of your victory as a human being.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.

How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

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.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.

The secret of happiness is something to do

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.

Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

Work and love; these are the basics. Without them there is neurosis.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

The happy people are those who are producing something...

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they seem to have been so when we look back on them; and they take up more room in our memory than all the years that succeed them.

The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.

We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.

The trouble is not that we are never happy-it is that happiness is so episodical.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes lie within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

May you find grace as you surrender to life. May you find happiness, as you stop seeking it. May you come to trust these laws and inherit the wisdom of the Earth. May you reconnect with the heart of nature and feel the blessings of Spirit.

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.

To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

Happiness and strength endure only in the absence of hate. To hate alone is the road to disaster. To love is the road to strength. To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

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

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

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

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

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

"ﾂ鯖n every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.

You're never fully dressed without a smile.

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient

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.

Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.

The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish.

Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.

Independence is happiness.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Better is to bow than breake.

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you're still going to be taken along.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

Love can make a summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

Painting's not important. The important thing is keeping busy.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have

All I can say about life is, 'Oh God, enjoy it!'

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him

Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.

We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.

Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.

Happiness is a hard thing because it is achieved only by making others happy.

Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

When you're in your nineties and looking back, it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

Seek not outside yourself, Heaven is within.

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.

We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it?

The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart.

People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.

Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.

What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Orange is the happiest color.

Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food.

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!

The habit of being uniformly considerate towards others will bring increased happiness to you.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.

No one is happy all his life long.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.

Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

It is better to play than do nothing.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - - mental, financial you name it.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

In this life we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. Making perfect choices all of the time is not possible. It just doesn't happen. But it is possible to make good choices we can live with and grow from.

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side

The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.

Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that.

Not that she didn't enjoy the holidays: but she always felt-and it was, perhaps, the measure of her peculiar happiness-a little relieved when they were over. Her normal life pleased her so well that she was half afraid to step out of its frame in case one day she should find herself unable to get back.

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.

Why is it that so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?

When love is out of your life, you're through in a way. Because while it is there it's like a motor that's going, you have such vitality to do things, big things, because love is goosing you all the time.

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

I never get tired of smiling. I'm just the kind of guy who likes to smile.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.

I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It's supposed to be fun.

I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.

This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken.

It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.

If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

To make a man happy, fill his hands with work.

The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

Where thou art, that is home.

Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.

Happy the man who knows his duties!

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Happiness is a byproduct of an effort to make someone else happy

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

If you want happiness for a lifetime - help the next generation.

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.

Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.

There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness…

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist; it's absolutely an individual right, but the important thing is with a compassionate heart - then no problem.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

Happiness hates the timid. So does science.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

Deliberately to pursue happinesss is not the surest way of achieving it. Seek it for its own sake and I doubt whether you will find it.

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.

Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Happiness means quiet nerves.

To find your own way is to follow your bliss. This involves analysis, watching yourself and seeing where real deep bliss is — not the quick little excitement , but the real deep, life-filling bliss.

A good government implies two things: fidelity to the object of government, which is the happiness of the people; secondly, a knowledge of the means by which that object can be best attained

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.

Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

No man is happy who does not think himself so

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.