It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.
The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
Realize that true happiness lies within you.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
Live with the objective of being happy.
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Beingness, doingness and havingness are like a triangle where each side supports the others. They are not in conflict with each other. They all exist simultaneously. Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: They try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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