The happiest people don't worry too much about whether life is fair or not, they just get on with it.
For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. 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 that you're not going to be very 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.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Think of all the beauty thats still left in and around you and be happy!
Happiness is a warm puppy.
When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
Always do what you want, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind
You get more joy out of the giving to others, and should put a good deal of thought into the happiness you are able to give.
It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.
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.
Man is fond of counting his troubles but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
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.
If you have nothing else to do, look about you and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve! It may make you wealthy, though it is more likely that it will make you happy.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampeled.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
...and I would have wished it away if I had not become occupied with this other sensation, a sensation I had no single word for. I could feel myself full of happiness, but it was a happiness I had never experienced before, and my happiness would spill out of me and run all the way down a long, long road and then the road would come to an end and I would feel empty and sad, for what could come after this? How would it end?
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
Live by the foma [harmless untruths] that make you brave, and kind, and healthy, and happy.
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Bigamy is having one wife too many; monogamy is the same.
Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best , you very often get it.
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The essentials to happiness are something to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
At certain moments, always unforseen, I become happy... I look at the strangers near as if I had known them all my life... everything fills me with affection... It may be an hour before the mood passes, but lately I seem to understand that I enter upon it the moment I cease to hate.
Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.
"Happiness is not a circus clown rolling around in a big tractor tire so that his arms and legs form 'spokes.' Happiness is when he stops."
That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
