When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. —-HH the Dalai Lama

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. —-Jacques Prévert

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. ~H. Jackson Browne

I hate being happy. It pisses me off. Because I know if I try to grab it, it will slip away, like one of those goddamn water snakes. And I hate just looking. I always try to grab. ~D.H. Mondfleur

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. —–Robert S. Lynd

If you want to understand the meaning of happiness, you must see it as a reward and not as a goal. —-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. —–John Stuart Mill

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go. ——Martha Washington

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. —-Margaret Lee Runbeck

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. —-Aristotle, In Philosophy

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 somebody. ——Chinese Proverb

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: They must not do too much of it: And they must have a sense of success in it. —–John Ruskin

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. — Victor Hugo

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. — Jim Rohn

Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined. —-Lucan

No longer forward nor behind
I look in hope and fear;
But grateful take the good I find,
The best of now and here. —-John G. Whittier

Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later. —-Francis Bacon

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see. —-Claude Monet

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. —-— Mark Twain

The key is to just get on the bike, and the key to getting on the bike…is to stop thinking about “there are a bunch of reasons i might fall off” and just hop on and peddle the damned thing. You can pick up a map, a tire pump, and better footwear along the way. —-Dick Costolo

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. —Frederick Keonig

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it. —-William Feather

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping. —-Cindy Crawford

I don’t know how long the ranking is going to favor me or anybody else. But it feels great right now and I’m really proud to achieve that. —–Vijay Singh

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is. —Erasmus

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 M Schulz

I’m very happy with the way I look. I wake up some morning, catch myself in the bathroom mirror, and go, ‘hey girl, you’re alright’. But on the other hand, I find the website stuff, and the polls, something completely removed from my own personal life. You can’t take anything like that too seriously, otherwise you’d end up in the loony bin. —-Cameron Diaz

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. —–Norman Vincent Peale

Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy. ——Seneca Quotes

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. ~Charles L. Morgan

When you stand in that sliver of space that is completely and utterly you, then will you be truly awesome, wonderful, magnificent. ——Joseph Riggio

It is only in the depths of silence that the voice of God can be heard. —Sai Baba

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state, we must be doing something to be happy. ——Mahatma Gandhi

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. —–Helen Rowland

Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy. —Eskimo Proverb

It is by studying little things that we attain
the great knowledge of having as little misery and
as much happiness as possible. —–Samuel Johnson.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. – Thomas Edison
41. Getting what you go after is success; but liking it while you are getting it is happiness. – Bertha Damon

If you want to be happy, be.” (Leo Tolstoy)

Work smart not hard. If all you do is work hard making incremental improvements you are just like a hamster running in a wheel and never really getting anywhere… Far too many people think entrepreneurship is like an attendance award, where you can win just by showing up. —-Evan Williams

Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats. ——Howard Aiken

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. —-Buddha

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. —–Aristotle

Presumably to say that happiness is the supreme good seems a platitude, and some more distinctive account of it is still required. This might perhaps be achieved by grasping what is the function of man.. Is it likely that whereas joiners and shoemakers have certain functions or activities, man as such has none, but has been left by nature a functionless being? ——Aristotle

Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity. ——Confucius

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course.

I cried a lot this year, both in happiness and sadness. I cried with happiness over the exciting things happening in my career. My divorce. In a divorce, no matter the relationship, it’s still the death of something. And you have to mourn it. You have to go through it, or else it’s unresolved. And then you’re like, “Coulda, shoulda, woulda?” And I like to say, “I’m going to mourn over it, and it’s never going to come back.” Then you move on. —–Eva Longoria

I’m the type who’d be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn’t going to. I’m the type who’d like to sit home and watch every party that I’m invited to on a monitor in my bedroom. —–Andy Warhol Quot

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. —-Charles Kingsley

O, happy the soul that saw its own faults. —–Mevlana Rumi

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. —-E.L. Konigsburg

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open. —-John Barrymore

The Kingdom of Heaven is within you. —-Jesus Christ

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy. —–Cyril Connolly

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. ——Christian Nevell Bovee

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness;
happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the
picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is,
satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. ——George Santayana.

Happiness isn’t about what happens to us — it’s about how we perceive what
happens to us. It’s the knack of finding a positive for every negative,
and viewing a setback as a challenge. If we can just stop wishing for what
we don’t have, and start enjoying what we do have, our lives can be richer;
more fulfilled — and happier. The time to be happy is now. ——Lynn Peters.

A business organization whose employees are happy is more productive, has a higher morale, and has a lower turnover.

A man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. – Mohammed Ali

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. —-Theodore Roosevelt

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. —-Mark Twain

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. —-Dalai Lama

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. —–Victor Hugo

What is called happiness in its narrowest sense comes from the satisfaction – most often instantaneous – of pent up needs which have reached great intensity, and by its very nature can only be a transitory experience. ——-Sigmund Freud

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. —–Carl Jung

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

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts, 1931

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. —- Marcel Pagno

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. —–Susan Polis Schutz

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. — Hugh Downs

Happiness…it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.–Franklin D. Roosevelt

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. —-Washington Irving

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. —-Maya Angelou

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation. —-Bette Davis

There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those. —-Mother Teresa

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are. —–Goldie Hawn

It’s kind of scary sometimes, I’ve seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add and involving great technical expertise sometimes, but you can tell that they have been told only to play happy pleasant music. —-Michael T. Thomas

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 opened for us. —Helen Keller

Enjoy the present day, as distrusting that which is to follow. —Horace

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness.. it is generally the by-product of other activities. —-Aldous Huxley

If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation. —-Helen Keller

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. —-Norman Vincent Peale

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. —- Benjamin Franklin

You’ve got to drop something. You’ve got to drop illusions. You don’t have to add anything in order to be happy; you’ve got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It’s only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings. —-Anthony de Mello

The basic fact is that all sentient beings, particularly human beings, want happiness and do not want pain and suffering. —-Dalai Lama

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself. —-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness–if you had little time left to live–you would waste precious little of it! Well, I’m telling you…you do have a terminal illness: It’s called birth. You don’t have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason–or you will never be at all. —–~ Dan Millman

It you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal not to people or things.—-~ Albert Einstein

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy… is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them. —–Ralph Waldo Trine

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. —-Francesca Reigler

Prudent people are very happy; `ties an exceeding fine thing, that’s certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humor of saying what I think.—-Mary Worley Montagu

When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. And there are ways in which we can consciously work to develop feelings of love and kindness. —Dalai Lama

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. —- Abraham Lincoln

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. ——James Allen

Have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. —–Henry Miller

Man must search for what is right, And let happiness come on its own. —-Johann Pestalozzi

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 month – get married.
If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime – help someone else. —-Chinese Proverb

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. —–Oscar Wilde

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. —-Robert Heinlein

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future. One of the key things for people as far as joy is concerned is not living a selfish, self-centered lifestyle where we live our lives expecting everybody else to do something for us. —–Joyce Meyer

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive. —–Howard Thurman

I’m happy in Madrid, my kids are happy and my wife is happy, so everything’s good. If anyone knows about contracts they take a while to sort out. —–David Beckham

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be. —-Dan Quayle

Whatever people may think and say, I am very happy, thank you very much. —–Diana Princess Of Wales

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you’re truly wireless. —–Ted Turner

Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means… the bottom line… then for me it’s if the family is healthy and happy. —-Dr Phi

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. —–Maxim Gorky

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. —–W. Wolfe

We must dare to be happy, and dare to confess it, regarding ourselves always as the depositories, not as the authors of our own job. —–Henri Frederic Amiel

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.—–Benjamin Franklin

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. —-George Bernard Shaw

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time. —-Samuel Johnson

I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee! —–William Blake

You get divorced. Things happen. I have nobody to blame for the divorce but myself. I’m happy it happened. I’m thrilled to go on with life. —-Jack Welch

You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power, and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may make use of it the moment you learn to control your thoughts. —-Napoleon Hill

A smile is a language even a baby can understand. It costs nothing but it creates much. It happens in a flash but the memory of it may last forever. Keep on smiling because you deserve to be.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles. ——Mark Twain

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. —-Victor Hugo

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions. The little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, countless infinitesimal of pleasure and genial feelings. —– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An amateur thinks it’s funny to dress a man as an old lady, sit him in a wheelchair and shove the chair so that it goes down a ladder and smashes into a brick wall. A professional knows you have to use a real old lady. —Groucho Marx