1. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde
2. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. - Marcus Aurelius
3. Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln
4. Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. - Thomas Jefferson
5. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. - Mahatma Gandhi
6. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. - Dalai Lama
7. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. - Thomas Merton
8. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. - Omar Khayyam
9. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. - Helen Keller
10. 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
11. Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. - Mother Teresa
12. Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. - Ayn Rand
13. It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. - Immanuel Kant
14. The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. - Robert Baden-Powell
15. When ambition ends, happiness begins. - Thomas Merton
16. Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse. - Adam Smith
17. Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. - Bernard Meltzer
18. Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. - Guillaume Apollinaire
19. To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
20. There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. - Mark Twain
21. The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin
22. The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin
23. A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? - Albert Einstein
24. True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. - Helen Keller
25. Happiness depends upon ourselves. - Aristotle
26. Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. - Eleanor Roosevelt
27. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. - Ernest Hemingway
28. Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. - Thomas Jefferson
29. It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. - Thomas Jefferson
30. The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
31. You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. - C. S. Lewis
32. Love is trembling happiness. - Khalil Gibran
33. But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? - Albert Camus
34. Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. - Albert Camus
35. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. - Robert Frost
36. The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
37. Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. - Napoleon Hill
38. There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. - Epictetus
39. You can be happy where you are. - Joel Osteen
40. Never mind your happiness; do your duty. - Peter Drucker
41. Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. - Dalai Lama
42. It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. - Charles Spurgeon
43. Happiness can exist only in acceptance. - George Orwell
44. It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
45. True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
46. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. - Ayn Rand
47. The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. - Arthur Schopenhauer
48. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. - Aldous Huxley
49. True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
50. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. - Bertrand Russell
51. Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. - Bertrand Russell
52. A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. - Bertrand Russell
53. Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. - Benjamin Disraeli
54. What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. - Leo Buscaglia
55. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. - Blaise Pascal
56. Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. - Dale Carnegie
57. Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. - Albert Schweitzer
58. All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin. - Lord Byron
59. Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself. - Alice Walker
60. Happiness is an inside job. - William Arthur Ward
61. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. - Jane Austen
62. If you want to be happy, be. - Leo Tolstoy
63. To forget oneself is to be happy. - Robert Louis Stevenson
64. Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
65. If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. - Richard Bach
66. The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it. - Richard Bach
67. Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. - Richard Bach
68. It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. - Kin Hubbard
69. The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. - Henry Ward Beecher
70. 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
71. Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way. - Sophocles
72. Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. - Ambrose Bierce
73. Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. - Ambrose Bierce
74. Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. - Gilbert K. Chesterton
75. The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. - Chuck Palahniuk
76. It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. - Desiderius Erasmus
77. Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. - Anatole France
78. Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. - Baruch Spinoza
79. All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. - Baruch Spinoza
80. Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle. - George Burns
81. The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. - Carl Sandburg
82. Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted. - Deepak Chopra
83. Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy. - Deepak Chopra
84. Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. - Plutarch
85. Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. - John Stuart Mill
86. Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy. - Henri Frederic Amiel
87. Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails. - Euripides
88. Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. - Ovid
89. Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. - Fyodor Dostoevsky
90. Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens. - Andy Rooney
91. 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
92. To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. - Gustave Flaubert
93. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. - Andre Gide
94. The secret of happiness is something to do. - John Burroughs
95. Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all. - Russell M. Nelson
96. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. - Robert Green Ingersoll
97. Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. - Ogden Nash
98. A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. - Bette Davis
99. Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness. - Baltasar Gracian
100. In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. - W. H. Auden
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