Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.
I intend that I am learning from my experiences so that I am only repeating the ones that bring me happiness.
Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.
Decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.
The only thing you must never speak of is your happiness.
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out. ' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.
Happiness need not be analyzed.
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Happiness too is inevitable.
If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
And it did for one wild moment cross my mind that, perhaps, those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.
Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in being where you belong, and second -- and best -- in comfortably going through everyday life, that is, having had a good night's sleep and not being hurt by new shoes.
The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
Happiness was born a twin.
When I find myself focusing overmuch on the anticipated future happiness of arriving at a certain goal, I remind myself to 'Enjoy now'. If I can enjoy the present, I don't need to count on the happiness that is (or isn't) waiting for me in the future".