Happiness

  1. All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.  Horace Friess
  2. Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don’t find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Selfactualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings YOU the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.  David Leonhardt
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.  James Allen
  6. Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections.  Author Unknown
  7. Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking.  H.W. Byles
  8. Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.  Robert Brault
  9. Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.  Buddha
  10. Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.  Mildred Barthel
  11. Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.  Margaret Lee Runbeck
  12. Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.  Anonymous
  13. Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.  Jim Rohn
  14. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.  Mohandas K. Gandhi
  15. Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  16. Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.  Democritus
  17. It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.  Dale Carnegie
  18. It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there’s always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.  Zig Ziglar
  19. Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through selfgratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.  Helen Keller
  20. Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.  Abraham Lincoln
  21. Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.  Cynthia Nelms
  22. Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.  Margaret Young
  23. Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.  Norman Vincent Peale
  24. People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.  Ramona L. Anderson
  25. 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
  26. Some pursue happiness, others create it.  Author Unknown
  27. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.  Albert Schweitzer
  28. 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
  29. The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. There is no goal better than this one: to know as you lie on your deathbed that you lived your true life, and you did whatever made you happy.  Steve Chandler
  30. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.  Mark Twain
  31. The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.  James Openheim
  32. The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.  Allan K. Chalmers
  33. The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.  Martha Washington
  34. The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour.  Author Unknown
  35. There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.  Lady Blessington
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. When you’re happy for no reason, you’re unconditionally happy. It’s not that your life always looks perfect  it’s just that however it looks, you’ll still be happy.  Marci Shimoff
  41. When you’re really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights  and flowers will bloom on a barren land.  Grey Livingston
  42. You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you’ll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance.  Lavetta Sue Wegman
  43. For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.  Author Unknown
  44. 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

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