Happiness is an inside job.
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
Sometimes we can’t find the thing that will make us happy, because we can’t let go of the thing that was supposed to.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
Life is to be lived forward but understood backward.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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 been opened for us.
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
Never expect to find happiness in the same place you lost it.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Some pursue happiness, others create it.
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart.
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts 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 nose all the time.
Happiness is not a horse, you cannot harness it.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness, it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Employment is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
True happiness consists in making others happy.
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Happiness is the ability to recognize it.