Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
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.
Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.
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.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Whoever is happy will make others happy.
Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.
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