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In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself. 
Unknown
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
James M. Barrie
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 that has been opened for us.  
Helen Keller
Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.  
Unknown
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.  
Albert Camus
If you want happiness for an hour - take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day - go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year - inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime - help someone else.  
Chinese Proverb
Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.  
Dennis Waitley
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world. 
Joseph Addison
Happiness is acceptance.  
Unknown
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.  
Buddha
We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness
Dalai Lama
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Dr. Robert Anthony
Happiness is a myth we seek,
If manifested surely irks;
Like river speeding to the plain,
On its arrival slows and murks.
For man is happy only in
His aspiration to the heights;
When he attains his goal, he cools
And longs for other distant flights.
Kahlil Gibran
Happiness is a state of activity.  
Aristotle
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.  
Colton
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.  
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Epicurus
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
Rose Lane
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.  
Abraham Lincoln
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 that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Aristotle
Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.
Marcus Aurelius
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
George Matthew Allen
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
David Burns, Intimate Connections
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
Euripides
Happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.
John M. Good
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Charles Caleb Colton
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realising that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
from How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Epictetus
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Benjamin Franklin
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mills
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Robert F. Kennedy
Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
William Ellery Channing
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Ghandi
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Henry W. Longfellow
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
J. Petit Senn
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come,—as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Thomas Fuller
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Publilius Syrus
Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination; --happiness; but few are going by the same road.
Charles Caleb Colton
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
Jean de La Bruyere
How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now.
Gerald Jampolsky
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
Mother Teresa
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
 Anton Chekhov
Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
Werner Erhard
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
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
 George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.
Palmer Sondreal
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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to, and bless the lives of others.
Stephen Covey
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
 Albert Camus
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran

 

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Leo Buscaglia
Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
Leo Buscaglia
Happiness and love are just a choice away.
Leo Buscaglia
Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
Leo Buscaglia
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
Leo Buscaglia
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
Charles Schulz

You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. Richard Bach
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. Richard Bach
In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy choice.
Richard Bach
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus
By living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life.
Nancye V. Sims
Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh
If you’re not enjoying the journey, you probably won’t enjoy the destination.
Joe Tye
It’s never too late to be the person you could have been.
George Eliot

The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Madame de Stael
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Thomas Jefferson
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
John Milton
Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying, “Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself." If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm ambitious for that, too.
Harrison Ford
Each man has only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself. His task is to discover his own destiny, not an arbitrary one, and live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else is only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one’s own inwardness. Herman Hesse

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl Jung
Every moment of your life, including this one, is a fresh start.
Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing, the last and the greatest of human freedoms, to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstance, to choose one’s own way of life.
Victor Frankl
Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.
Helen Keller
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
No dream is too extreme.
Pinocchio
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.
Barbara de Angelis
Nobody who ever gave their best regretted it.
 George Halas
Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.
Nancye V. Sims
Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
Mark Twain
Rule number six: Stop taking yourself so bloody seriously! (What are the other rules? There are none).
Benjamin Zander
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
Mark Twain
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
Start a crusade in your life - to dare to be your best.
William Danforth
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Surround yourself with people who believe you can.
 Dan Zadra
The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, blame. The gift is yours, it is an amazing journey and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.
 Bob Moawad
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
M. Scott Peck
There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
 Jackson Brown Jr.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
 Anne Frank
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Edward de Bono

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others. Buddha
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is a Swedish sunset - it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.
Mark Twain
Happiness is not a result - it’s a state of mind and body.
 Paul McKenna
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
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand
If you hear a voice within saying, “You can’t paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are.
Max Dupree
We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
What separates individuals is not how many times they fall, but how fast they get back up and try again.
Nigel Risner
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.
 Helen Keller
Be the change you want to create.
Mahatma Ghandi
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
Mark Twain
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
Mark Twain
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
 Frank Zappa
You are free to experience life negatively or positively, and the choice you make determines whether you are at cause, or at effect, of the life you are living.
Marianne Williamson
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Robin Williams
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up!
Paul Valery