“Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.”
“If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.”
“The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.”
“Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result.”
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
“True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.”
“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”
“It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.”
“The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.”
“The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.”
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”
“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
“If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.”
“The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.”
“The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.”
“I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.”
“Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.”
“It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.''”
“Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.”
“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”
“What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?”
“The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.”
“Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.”
“Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.”
“The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.”
“Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.”
“Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.”
“Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.”
“What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.”
“Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!”