The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
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.
There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.
Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.
The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
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