“All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.” — Horace Friess
“Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.” — J. Donald Walters
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” — Marcus Aurelius
“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 paradise in a few years.” — Bertrand Russell
“He who lives happiest has forgotten most.” — Robert Anton Wilson
“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.” — Mildred Barthel
“So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.” — John Sutherland Bonnell
“Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.” — George Washington
“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” — Abraham Lincoln
“How to gain, how to keep, and how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive for all they do.” — William James
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” — Aristotle
“We all want to be happy, and we’re all going to die. You might say those are the only two unchallengeably true facts that apply to every human being on this planet.” — William Boyd
“It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.” — Thomas Jefferson
“The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being so except that they are so.” — William Ralph Inge
“Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with man’s outward circumstance…A man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy.” — William Barclay
“Happiness is a journey, not a destination; happiness is to be found along the way not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it’s too late. The time for happiness is today not tomorrow.” — Quoted by Paul H. Dunn
“There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.” — Countess of Blessington
“Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying “Wow, this is it. I guess I’m happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I’m even feeling more and more at peace with myself.” If there’s something else to happiness, let me know. I’m ambitious for that, too.” — Harrison Ford
“We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have–and not worrying about what we don’t have.” — Ken Keyes, Jr.
“The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.” — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“If you want to be happy, be.” — Leo Tolstoy
“Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” — Francesca Reigler, artist
“The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.” — Bertrand Russell
“A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.” — Talmud
“I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.” — Martha Washington
“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 they will be happier.” — Margaret Young
“The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything they have.” (author unknown)
“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.” — Colette
“One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.” — Gretchen Rubin
“Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.” — Mark Twain.
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” — Buddha
“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” — Buddha
“The purpose of life is happiness.” — Dalai Lama
“Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.” — Dale Carnegie
“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.” — Epictetus
“I am happy and content because I think I am.” — Alain-René Lesage
“Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings” — Immanuel Kant
“The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
“It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.” — Bertrand Russell
“Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.” — Wayne Dyer
“If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day.” — W. Beran Wolfe
“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.” — Democritus
“All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.” — Blaise Pascal
“What is the worth of anything,
But for the happiness ’twill bring?”
— Richard Owen Cambridge
“Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people’s.” — Bertrand Russell
