In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy?
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.
If you want to be happy, be.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
The secret of happiness is something to do.
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
