Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
Scottish Proverb
Happiness is having a large, loving, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns
Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it.
John Templeton
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
Cynthia Nelms
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
Wayne Dyer
Make singing and dancing in the shower part of your morning constitution then laugh at yourself naked in the mirror and you can't help but be happy the rest of the day.
Daniel Edwards
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
Many persons 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
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Louise Bogan
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
Lao-tzu
A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.
Albert Einstein
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
Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
Mark Twain
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
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
Andrew Carnegie
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
Robert Muller
The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also.
Felix Adler
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Anne Frank The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Martha Washington
Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.
Aristotle
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
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Henry David Thoreau
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Karl Marx
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mill
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
Princess Diana
Romans 8:28 “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
Agape, Daniel