Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth We are happy when we are growing.
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.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
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.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy even if you're not part of their happiness.
You can be happy where you are.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind and has given up worrying once and for all.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
If you want to be happy be.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Be happy with what you have and are be generous with both and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
A table a chair a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?
If you want others to be happy practice compassion. If you want to be happy practice compassion.
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.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy amused way.
When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.