Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simple yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend.
-Unknown
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want the most for what you want now.
-Zig Ziglar
The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage
-Carrie Jones
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem
-Jonathan Safran Foer
Some pursue happiness others create it.
-Anonymous
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
-Brendan Francis
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"What will they think of me?" must be put aside for bliss.
-Joseph Campbell
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness
-Drew Barrymore
The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being
-Tenzin Gyatso
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
-George Santayana
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
-Andrew Carnegie
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
-Robert Muller
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.
-David Steindl-Rast
The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy
-Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
-Denis Waitley
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase, if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
- C. P. Snow
Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.
-Buddha
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
-Marcel Proust
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
-James M. Barrie
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
-John Milton
Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient
-Aristotle
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
-Thomas Jefferson
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
-Thomas Jefferson
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.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered in the night and made my day worth living
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings
-Elizabeth Gilbert
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
-Henry Ford
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-Hellen Keller
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping.
-Dale Carnegie
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
- Groucho Marx
Being happy doesn't mean you're perfect. It just means you've decided to look beyond the imperfections
- K.B Indiana
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
- Mildred Barthel
To accept what you are is to be content, and contentment is the greatest wealth. To work with patience is to gather power."
-Vimalia McClure
Whoever is happy will make others happy
-Anne Frank
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existance
-Aristotle
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances
-Martha Washington
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate
-Oprah
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
-James Openheim
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."
-Doris Mortman
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time
-Marth Troly-Curtin
Happiness is not ready made it comes from your own actions
-Dalai Lama
The most important thing is to enjoy life to be happy, it's all that matters
-Audrey Hepburn
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open
-Chuck Palahniuk
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste
-Charlotte Bronte
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile
-Mother Teresa
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts
-Marcus Aurelius
Happiness is not a goal.. it's a by-product of a life well lived
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations
-Jodi Picoult
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