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.
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
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.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.
Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You're in complete control of your happiness.
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
The value of a smile... It costs nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None are so rich they can get along without it, and none so poor but are richer for its benefits. It creates happiness in the home, fosters good will in a business, and is the countersign of friends.
The way to be happy is to make others so.
Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
Happiness is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking.
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.
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