Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
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.
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.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
Whoever is happy will make others happy.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
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