Happiness

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

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.

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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not need any.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness resides in the soul.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is a joy to live.

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you want to be happy, be.

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

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

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

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.

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

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.

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

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

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

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

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

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Happiness is an inside job.

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

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