Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
Be able to laugh at difficulties.
You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
The pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept.
The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.
All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.
Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow
Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
Happiness is separate from daily experience. If picking the right door on the game show makes you happy, then you will be unhappy in the future because eventually you will pick a wrong door.
My happiness is dependent upon light. Since light is endless, I'm bound to be happy always.
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.
Sometimes our thoughts turn back toward a corner in a forest, or the end of a bank, or an orchard powdered with flowers, seen but a single time on some happy day, yet remaining in our hearts and leaving in soul and body an unappeased desire which is not to be forgotten, a feeling that we have just rubbed elbows with happiness.
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowled
Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature.
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Happiness is the summit of a high mountain; we can visit it, but we can't stay there! We are forced to go down to the valleys of sadness.