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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.
Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we've come and the progress we've made.
I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.
I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
Life is not a malfunction. It's beautiful. But if you do not see it that way, it's simply because your room needs cleaning.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.
Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it.
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.
What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.
Living one's life with unguarded vulnerability is one of the keys to happiness. It's also one of the keys to getting mugged.
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.
Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that.
The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.
When everyone recognizes Jehovah's name, then everyone will be happy because everyone will know what to do and how to do it.
It takes a lot of courage to be happy (after the death of a spouse), but I've got courage, so I think I will be happy again.
Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you can't change.
The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.
Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.
Now run along and play, but don't get into trouble. George promised to be good. But it is easy for little monkeys to forget.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.
So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.
You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks.
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Never have I thought that I was the happy possessor of a "talent;" my sole concern has been to save myself by work and faith.
You changed my life. You changed my ways. I don't even recognize myself these days. It must be a reflection of you, only you.