Happiness is the result of an attitude of mind. I believe you can build it out of small things.

The act of discovering who we are will force us to accept that we can go further than we think.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.

Fear is nothing more than a mental monster you have created, a negative stream of consciousness

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.

There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook, peace of mind and inner happiness

We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.

Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

Happiness is simply a state of mind in which our thinking is pleasant a good share of the time.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.

We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

The future belongs to God, and it is only he who reveals it, under extraordinary circumstances.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness.

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.

It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart.

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

Most people are grateful because they are happy. Wise people are happy because they're grateful.

It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.

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