The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.
Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realize that each thought creates according to its own nature. Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
Happiness is an inside job.
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.
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.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.
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.
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
There's a huge difference between achieving to be happy and happily achieving.
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
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