All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.
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.
Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is material; happiness is spiritual. Pleasure is self-involved; happiness is outer- and other-involved.
Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.
Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the wrongs of the world around us. But inside ourselves, near the core, if we are happy, we are at peace.
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.
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.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.
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