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People wait all week for Friday, all year for summer, all life for happiness

Life is about learning from the past, trusting your intuition going forward, taking chances, finding moments of happiness, and realizing everything is simply a lesson that happens for a reason.

Happiness adds and multiplies, as we divide it with others.

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

Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same.

Wishing you blessings of health, happiness and success on Thanksgiving and always

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

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Well being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

The key to happiness is good health and a bad memory

Some people will try to spoil your happiness just because they have nothing better to do and because they are unhappy with their own life... Stand your ground!

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Negativity is a thief, it steals happiness

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

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

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

I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery.

Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.

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

We must dare to be happy, and dare to confess it, regarding ourselves always as the depositories, not as the authors of our own joy.

Unbroken happiness is a bore: It should have ups and downs.

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

Happiness was born a twin.

Life is too short to spend time with people who suck the happiness out of you.

The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

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

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

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

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous, Be happy anyway.

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

If you cant be a PENCIL to write someones happiness, then try to be an ERASER to remove someones sadness

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen twentieths of mankind.

Happiness is not about getting what you want all the time, its about appreciating what you already have.

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.

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Appreciate all of the amazing things others can bring to your life, but dont depend on them for creating your happiness.

Beauty might bring happiness, but happiness always brings beauty

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness.

The best way to torture people is with your happiness. Theres nothing people hate more than seeing you be successful.

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.

the key to happiness is to realize that you are in complete control of how happy you are

Happiness is a journey, not a destination

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

But the struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wise... And happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

life is about learnin from the past trust in your feelings takin chances losing and finding happiness appreciating the memories and realizin that life goes on

Some people never find it, some only pretend, but I just want to live happily ever after every now and then.

Happiness is made not found. Everyone can make it if they want. ;)

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

everybody wants happiness nobody wants pain but you cant have a rainbow without a little rain

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

Give your life happiness and excitement, not tears and pain.

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.

Profit is a by product of work; happiness is its chief product.

there is a time in everybodys life when you have to stop being scared and say what you want & need cause holding back only leaves you with regret & unhappiness!

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Truth or happiness. Never both.

Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.

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

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...

Happiness is not hard to find. Its beside you, its in front of you, its at your back, its around you. Its just a matter of appreciation

Dont put the key to your happiness in someone elses pocket.

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

The key to happiness is your inner freedom, peace, and willingness to enjoy every moment of your life.

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

The richer you get, the more expensive happiness becomes.

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

True happiness comes from within yourself, not from someone else. Stop searching, start living.

Through every walk of pain, theres is always a step of happiness that awaits.

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

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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

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

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

The high prize of life, the crowning glory of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Be as you wish to seem.

Find your happiness not just in the big moments of life but in every little one.

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

Know your worth. Know when you have had enough. And move on from the people who keep ruining your happiness.

Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your life made you the happiest. ... Would you make more time for those people?

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.

Some pursue happiness. Others create it.

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

You can only find happiness once you are truly willing to accept the things that once made you unhappy.

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

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

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means either may do the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Happiness Cames From Realizing Your No Longer Unhappy.

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

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

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

Happiness is someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

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

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

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.

The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

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

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

We have all sinned and come short of the glory of making ourselves as comfortable as we easily might have done.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are enabled to inspire.

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Just because someone left, doesnt mean your happiness is gone. Happiness doesnt depend on anybody but ourselves

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

The opposite of play is not work. The opposite of play is depression.

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

Happiness often sneaks in a door you did not think was open

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

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.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

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.

The happier the moment the shorter.

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

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.

Joy comes from using your potential.

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

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

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

If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates.

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

We forget that happiness doesnt come as a result of getting something we dont have, but by recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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.

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

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.

I think the happiness we find, we make.

Happiness is not determined by whats happening around you, but rather whats happening inside you.

Life is about trusting your feelings, taking chances, losing, and finding happiness.

The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have...

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

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

Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

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

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

The secret of happiness is renunciation.

Everyone wants happiness and nobody wants pain, but you cant make a rainbow without a little rain.

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

Happiness requires problems

Follow your heart, because if you always trust your mind, youll always act on logic, and logic doesnt always lead to happiness

Pain was given so well learn how to sympathize. Struggles were given so well realize how to appreciate. Tears were given so well know how real happiness actually feels.

HAPPINESS is a journey,[not a destination]

The saddest people Ive ever met in life are the ones who dont care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because theres nothing to make it last.

There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things.

The happiness of our life depends upon the quality of our thoughts. But the quality of our thoughts depends on the people we have in our life.

Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

Life is about trusting our feelings &; taking chances , losing &; finding happiness , appreciating the memories &; learning from the past .

Happiness isnt getting all you want. Its enjoying all you have.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

The secret to real happiness is progress.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

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

What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.

Dont let anyone steal your happiness, it was never theirs to take

I no longer try to be right; I choose to be happy.

Never depend on people to help create your happiness because you might be depressed forever. If you rely on yourself then you know you always have someone to count on.

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

He is rich who owes nothing.

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles; find what interests you and that you can do well, and put your whole soul into it every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

Saying yes to happiness means learning to say no to things and people that stress you out.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

Dont let the sadness of your past or the fear of your future ruin the happiness of your present.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world, which remain unknown even to ourselves, or when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor.

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Life is to short to spend time with people who suck the happiness out of you

Everyone wants happiness, nobody wants pain, but you cant have a rainbow without a little rain.

Hard work will not only lead to success but also to happiness which is the greatest gift of life.

Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and never yet produced conviction in a single mind.

Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

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.

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.

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.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

There comes forever something between us and what we deem our happiness.

Optimists are people who expect more kisses in their future, more strolls in the park. And that anticipation enhances their well being.- Tali Sharot

Dont let circumstances that you cant control, control your happiness.

Choose happiness today by taking life moment by moment, complaining very little, and being thankful for the little things that mean a lot.

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Yet, as great joy, especially after a sudden change and revolution of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue...

Try to expect nothing, but be open for anything. Dont look for happiness, but dont settle for anything less

When it comes to being happy, theres no right or wrong. Its just a battle between your happiness & THEIR JUDGMENT.

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Now and then its good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

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

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

Truth adds strength to our mind, courage to our heart, happiness to our soul and empowerment, motivation and inspiration to feel the best in our enriching life.

A person must be able to be alone and find happiness within themselves, before they can ever expect to be happy with someone else.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Actual happiness looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn

Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange.

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

If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

Life is long to the miserable, but short to the happy.

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.

Realise that true happiness lies within you.

Most of us experience happiness when we are enjoying life and feeling free, enjoying the process and products of our creative and intellectual processes, enjoying the ecstasy of transcendent oneness with the universe.

The idea of having new perspectives on our planet, and actually being able to get that message out, gets me out of bed every day with a spring in my step.

Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.

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

Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places.

Theres nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.

Happiness and misery depend not upon how high up or low down you are they depend not upon these, but on the direction in which you are tending.

I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

Memory is the happiness of being alone.

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

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness

The enemy of the present happiness is the past happiness too well remembered.

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

The best feeling of happiness is when youre happy because youve made somebody else happy.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Its been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

No body can take away your pain, so dont let them take away your happiness.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

Happiness... she loves, to see men at work. She loves sweat, weariness, self sacrifice. She will be found not in places but lurking in cornfields and factories; and hovering over littered desks; she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.

Life is filled with challenges! dont let happiness be one of them

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

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

5 Ways to Happiness : 1. Dont Hate 2. Dont Worry 3. Live Simply 4. Expect Less 5. Give More

The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them out we succeed.

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.

Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?

When you allow your happiness to be controlled by someone else, you are handing them your power.

Happiness has nothing to do with your lifes circumstances, its based on your ability to accept the things you are experiencing.

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

If we get total certainty, we get ... bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

If you want happiness for an hour ,Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

Be happy or die.

No man is happy unless he believes he is.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

The best revenge is happiness, because nothing drives people more crazy then seeing someone actually having a good life

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

The happiness and unhappiness of our lives depends not on what we feel but on what we do, just as good and bad consists not in feeling but in doing.

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints.

If you pursue happiness you never find it.

We are here not to get all we can out of life for ourselves, but to try to make the lives of others happier.

The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.

To be happy is not the purpose of our being rather it is to deserve happiness.

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

Happiness is found when you stop comparing yourself to other people

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

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

The first step to happiness is deciding what you want, the second step is doing whatever it takes to get it and the last step is enjoying every minute of it.

You are responsible for your own happiness. If you expect others to make you happy, chances are youll always end up disappointed.

Heres a piece of advice: Never put your happiness in someone elses hands.

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

Never let someone elses happiness become more important than your own

Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Where one is wise two are happy.

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Take time for friends...they are the source of happiness.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil or else an absolute ignorance.

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

Dont let yesterday make you forget all the happiness you deserve today.

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquillity and occupation, which give happiness.

To fill the hour that is happiness.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

Its so hard to forget pain but its even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door

It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.

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

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Dont let your happiness be controlled by something you cant control.

You can be happy where you are.

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

Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again this is the brave and happy life.

Be the reason of someones happiness never just a part of it and Be a part of someones sadness but never the reason for it.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.

Dreams are a way to tell ourselves that we are still capable of bringing happiness in our lives. Never stop dreaming.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

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.

The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

No matter what, there will always be somebody who will try their hardest to take all that happiness that shines in and out of you; people will hate you even for being good. Keep on shining, because youre doing something right to have haters.

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be happy is not included in the plan of Creation.

Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off shoot of goodness.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Everyone wants happiness, no one wants pain, but you cant have a rainbow, without a little rain

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation itself, but your thoughts about it.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it is what I have steadfastly believed.

The most favorite TEDTalks are those that feature topics we can connect with, both easily and deeply, such as happiness, our own body, food, emotions.

What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.

Its important to note that theres no such thing as perfect happiness, just as theres no such thing as perfect despair. This is why trying to be perfect is an exercise in futility.

If you want to be happy, be.

In making up the character of God, the old theologians failed to mention that He is of infinite cheerfulness. The omission has caused the world much tribulation.

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

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

Dont let your happiness depend on other people. Just like the changes in seasons, people may also have a change in heart.

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

Stop worrying about someone that isnt worried about you. Never leave your key of happiness in someone elses pocket.

Our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants and how much more unhappy he might be than he really is.

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

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

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

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy, than in endeavoring to be so ourselves.

Im killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness

[Kindness] is a most edifying form of instant gratification.

Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

Happiness is valuing what you have, and enjoying the people, places, objects and events in your life for what they are. Its not about changing and achieving all the time; sometimes its about being and appreciating.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.

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.

Spending on other people has a bigger return for you than spending on yourself.

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.

It is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy

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

Happiness is a warm puppy.

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind and active habits, I place early rising as a means of health and happiness.

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

There are times when you need to release the bitterness and grab a firm hold of happiness.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.

If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you.

For who is pleased with himself.

Worrying is a waste of time. It doesnt change anything. It messes with your mind and steals your happiness.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Realizing that i truly was not happy was the first step in finding happiness.

Happiness is not something that happens to you. It i something that you choose

If we take an examination of what is understood by happiness ... we shall find all its properties ... under this short definition, that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

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

Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

You have the power to create your own happiness!! If you dont like something about your life, CHANGE IT! Never settle for less than all you dream of!

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

Life is short grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, let go what you cant change.

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Children ... smile as many as 400 times per day.

If we ... capitalize on the very real strengths of older people, then added years of life can dramatically improve quality of life at all ages.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

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.

It seems that when we think and think, we can end up thinking ourselves out of happiness, but never into it.

No matter the nature of your problems, dont mind the degree of your misfortune, dont lose hope, never submit yourself to frustration because life is the mixture of sorrows and 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.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

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.

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

Happiness is a choice. Yeah, things in life make it difficult, but at the end of the day you control your own happiness.

Over thinking kills happiness. Insecurities kill self esteem. Lies kill trust.-

You reach a point where you realize that in order to get HAPPINESS and PEACE OF MIND is to accept the pain, leave them behind, move on and forgive.

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

Happy were men if they but understood There is no safety but in doing good

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Until you realize you are the creator of your own misery you will never be truly happy.For it is how you react to any given situation that brings you happiness.

What is happiness?The feeling that power increases that resistance is overcome.

our heart is a place to draw true happiness.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.

Letting go of the past is your first step to happiness..

Sometimes it takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to value presence...

Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world.

Always be the reas0n 0f s0me0nes happiness never just a part 0f it. Be a part 0f s0me0nes sadness but never the reas0n f0r it.

“Happiness is not something tangible. Happiness is not something external like money, success, or status external happiness is temporary. Happiness is a source stored deep within you so find your source and your happiness will follow.”

Always focus on yourself as the center of your consciousness. Let your aura experience it and be at peace with connectivity. Feel infinite happiness revolving around your persona. Merge into it and become one with the everlasting universe!

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to stop worrying about things that are beyond our control.

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

If it causes you more pain than happiness, less laughter and more tears...theres no day like today to throw it away.

Your HAPPINESS is not determined by whats happening around you, but rather whats happening inside of you.

Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.

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

Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence

Gaiety a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Regardless of the outcome, the pure act of anticipation makes us happy.

The participants at Improv Everywhere events have just as much leisure time as any other New Yorkers, they just occasionally choose to spend it in an unusual way.

To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy.

If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.

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

The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

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

If you want happiness for a day go fishing.

Stop comparing yourself with others, stop measuring your own happiness by what others have or do not have.

Nobody can take away your pain so dont let anyone take your happiness.

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.

The greatest revenge is happiness.

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