Happiness

"It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable." ~ Roger L'Estrange

"I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Happy people are beautiful." ~ Drew Barrymore

"Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain." ~ Unknown

"People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be." ~ Abraham Lincoln

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times." ~ Unknown

"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future." ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." ~ Herman Cain

"Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get." ~ Bernard Meltzer

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness." ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." ~ Oscar Wilde

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." ~ Aristotle

"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years." ~ Bertrand Russell

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." ~ James Oppenheim

"Very little is needed to make a happy life." ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness." ~ Countess of Blessington

"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response." ~ Mildred Barthel

"Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy." ~ Wayne Dyer

"Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get." ~ Dave Gardner

"The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being so except that they are so." ~ William Ralph Inge

"We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have--and not worrying about what we don't have." ~ Ken Keyes, Jr.

"The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness." ~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

"Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do." ~ Wilfred A. Peterson

"Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same." ~ Francesca Reigler

"Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition." ~ Arthur Rubinstein

"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good." ~ Bertrand Russell

"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?" ~ Charles M Schulz

"If you want to be happy, be." ~ Leo Tolstoy

"Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected." ~ George Washington

"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier." ~ Margaret Young

"Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are." ~ Henry Van Dyke

"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is." ~ Maxim Gorky