Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.
You can never get enough of what you don't want.
You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy.'
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
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.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
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