Happiness

You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.

Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.

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.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness.

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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.

If you want to be happy, be.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.

Happiness isn't a trophy earned, but a weight willingly shed. It's the lightness found after releasing what no longer serves.

True happiness doesn't demand perpetual sunshine; it blossoms in the brave embrace of every passing cloud.

Don't chase happiness; cultivate purpose. It's the quiet bloom in the garden of a life well-lived, never the direct harvest.

The deepest joy isn't discovered reaching distant peaks, but by truly inhabiting the ground beneath your present steps.

Happiness is not a lucky break; it’s a deliberate rebellion against the gravity of circumstance, a chosen inner light.

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Happiness is an inside job.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

It's a hell of a start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.

Happiness is not a goal... it's a by-product of a life well lived.

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.

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.