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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.
Happiness is a 'state of mind' which we ourselves have the power to control - and that control lies in our thinking.
Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you'll be successful.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Enthusiasm Rules his inner world. Determination Rules his outer world. Therefore Happiness has become His real name.
You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.
Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.
Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.
There are two things in life that money cannot buy: health and happiness. Aside from that, it does an excellent job.
The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.
The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.
Good sex isn't just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.
We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.
Don't be discouraged. At times the path to truth is circuitous. The point is not to succeed, only to smile eternally.
Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.
To marvel at nothing is just about the one and only thing, Numicius, that can make a man happy and keep him that way.
Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.
To achieve happiness I advocate four major principles, the principles of love, wisdom, self-reflection, and progress.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
Love is self-realization. Love is liberation. The only way beyond time, to unravel the knot of existence, is to love.
Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
The world hath failed to impart the joy our youth forebodes; failed to fill up the void which in our breasts we bear.
Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections
Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
We need a different conception of happiness, more enduring and more genuine, not dependent on external circumstances.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.
You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.
I feel that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.
If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one directionally, without regret or reservation.
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.
Happy persons seldom think of happiness. They are too busy losing their lives in the meaningful sacrifices of service.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
If life on Planet Earth was really supposed to be a picnic, we would all have been born clutching gingham tablecloths.
The goal of all goals is happiness, and our emotions are like road signs on that journey toward the goal of happiness.