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• Happiness: A state of well-being and contentment. Merriam Webster 
• Happy: Feeling or showing pleasure or contentment.  Oxford Dictionary
• Happiness: Characterized by or indicative of pleasure, contentment, or joy.  Dictionary.com
• Well-being,  Fulfilment,  Contentment,  Gratitude,  Meaning,  Purpose,  Joy,  Pleasure,  Enjoyment

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Happiness is the very purpose of life

• Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. Aristotle
• A human being, like a business, makes profits and suffers losses. For a human being, however, the ultimate currency is not money, nor is it any external measure, such as fame, fortune, or power. The ultimate currency for a human being is happiness. Tal Ben-Shahar
• Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, the very purpose of life is happiness, the very notion of our life is towards happiness. The Dalai Lama
• The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. The Dalai Lama
• The purpose of our lives is to be happy. The Dalai Lama
• We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. Anne Frank
• For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. Ayn Rand
• All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end. Blaise Pascal
• The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man. Jacques Rousseau
• Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• Happiness is a common right of the race. Charles Warner Dudley
• What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful. The Dalai Lama
• What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness. Baruch Spinoza
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Happiness is true wisdom

• Be happy. It’s one way of being wise. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
• I hold those wise who know how to be happy. Ninon de Lenclos
• There is no happiness where there is no wisdom. Sophocles
• The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness. Michel de Montaigne
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Happiness is true wealth

• If you’re happy, you’re wealthy. Happiness doesn’t need a bank account.  Mary Christelle Macaluso
• To be happy, the passions must be cheerful and gay, not gloomy and melancholy. A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty. David Hume
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The search for happiness is intensely personal

• People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. Jackson Browne
• The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others. Paulo Coelho
• Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier. Ludwig von Mises
• Logically, you should go to school, get good grades, go to college, get a good degree, go into the workplace, then work hard and be happy. The only problem is that happiness isn’t logical. C. Ping
• Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life. Aristotle
• People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.  The Dalai Lama

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Happiness is very good for you

• In sum, across all the domains of life, happiness appears to have numerous positive byproducts that few of us have taken the time to really understand. In becoming happier, we not only boost experiences of joy, contentment, love, pride, and awe but also improve other aspects of our lives: our energy levels, our immune systems, our engagement with work and with other people, and our physical and mental health. In becoming happier, we bolster as well our feelings of self-confidence and self-esteem; we come to believe that we are worthy human beings, deserving of respect. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Undoubtedly, happiness – by almost anyone’s definition – feels good, and most folks like to savor the experience. But happiness doesn’t just feel good; it is good for you in a number of surprising ways, helping people to function effectively in many areas of life. Understanding how happiness can be used beneficially is important to cultivating true psychological wealth. Ed Diener & Robert Biswas- Diener
• In general, really nourish and develop positive emotions such as happiness, contentment, and peacefulness. For example, look for things to be happy about, and take in the good whenever possible. Positive feelings calm the body, quiet the mind, create a buffer against stress, and foster supportive relationships—all of which reduce ill will. Rick Hanson
• Happy people are more likely than their less happy peers to have fulfilling marriages and relationships, high incomes, superior work performance, community involvement, robust health and even a long life. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Happy moods, no matter what the source, lead people to be more productive, more likeable, more active, more healthy, more friendly, more helpful, more resilient, and more creative. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Mankind are always happier for having been happy; so that if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it. Sydney Smith
• No medicine cures what happiness cannot. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
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Your happiness is a gift to you and the world …

• There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. Robert Louis Stevenson
• Your happiness is your gift to the world. Robert Holden
• Each moment that you are happy is a gift to the rest of the world. Harry Palmer
• The greatest gift that you could ever give to another is your own happiness, for when you are in a state of joy, happiness, or appreciation, you are fully connected to the Stream of pure, positive Source Energy that is truly who you are. And when you are in that state of connection, anything or anyone that you are holding as your object of attention benefits from your attention. Abraham-Hicks
• Even when we are encouraging you to selfishly seek your own joy, we are actually saying to you: Your joy is the greatest gift that you can give to anyone. Because unless you are in your joy, you have nothing to give, anyway. Abraham-Hicks
• How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. Anne Sophie Swetchine
• Of all the gifts you have offered to God, your happiness-gift he treasures most. Sri Chinmoy
• The kindest thing you can do for the people you care about is to become a happy, joyous person. Brian Tracy
• As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Whoever is happy will make others happy. Anne Frank
• Each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That is the only real way to grow together, instead of apart. Emily Giffin
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… for being happy spreads happiness to others

• Whoever is happy will make others happy too. Anne Frank
• When we feel happy and peaceful, our happiness and peace radiates around us, and others can enjoy it as well. Buddha
• The best way to serve God is by going in search of your own dreams. Only the happy can spread happiness. Paulo Coelho
• Make yourself so happy so that when others look at you they become happy too. Yogi Bhajan

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Happiness comes from within

• A pleasant and happy life does not come from external things. Man draws from within himself, as from a spring, pleasure and joy. Plutarch
• Happiness is an inside job. William Arthur Ward
• Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are. John B. Sheerin
• Happiness is not in things. Happiness is in you. Robert Holden
• Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside, when it is inside. Ramana Maharishi
• Realize that true happiness lies within you. Lucian
• Teach your children that they need nothing exterior to themselves to be happy – no person, place, or thing – and that true happiness is found within. Teach them that they are sufficient unto themselves. Neale Donald Walsch
• The only thing that can stop you from feeling happiness is you. To continue to look outside for something that is already inside only serves to distract you from looking within. Jac O’keeffe
• Your deepest, most perfect happiness will be found within, and once you find it, nothing exterior to your Self can match it, nor can anything destroy it. Neale Donald Walsch
• Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else. Brian L. Weiss
• Happiness is within you. When you stop the chatter of the mind and expel your worries and fears you find out that happiness surfaces from within you. Remez Sasson
• Happiness is always here, but covered by thoughts, desires and fears. Remez Sasson
• Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside. Peter Deunov
• Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it’s not out there is that it’s inside us.  As banal and cliched as this may sound, happiness more than anything is a state of mind, a way of perceiving and approaching ourselves and the world in which we reside.  Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Your success and happiness lie in you. Helen Keller
• Nothing outside of ourselves will ever make us happy, because happiness is an inside-out experience. Robert Anthony
• Happiness is the natural state of our being. Dr Michael Beckwith
• It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. Agnes Repplier
• Most people are searching for happiness outside of themselves. That’s a fundamental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way that you think. Wayne Dyer
• People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within. Ramona L. Anderson
• You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now. Wayne Dyer
• The treasure within

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Make happiness your goal

• Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead. Scottish Proverb
• The most satisfying project you will ever undertake–and a mark of a complete human being– is to discover how to build a sense of happiness that no one can take away from you. Deepak Chopra
• I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society is to be happy. Patch Adams
• It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. Lucille Ball
• There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. Robert Louis Stevenson
• There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. Robert Louis Stevenson
• The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters. Audrey Hepburn
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Take responsibility for your own happiness

• Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands. Roy T. Bennett
• Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are… completely. Stacey Charter
• If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suffering. A happy or unhappy life is your own creation. Nobody else is responsible. If you remember this, you won’t find fault with anybody. You are your own best friend as well as your worst enemy. Swami Satchidananda
• Wanting another’s approval makes you their hostage. It puts your happiness in their hands. The truth is you are 100% responsible for your own happiness.  Byron Katie
• Tell everyone you know: “My happiness depends on me, so you’re off the hook.” And then demonstrate it. Be happy, no matter what they’re doing. Practice feeling good, no matter what. And before you know it, you will not give anyone else responsibility for the way you feel—and then, you’ll love them all. Because the only reason you don’t love them, is because you’re using them as your excuse to not feel good. Abraham-Hicks
• Happiness is not something you get in life. Happiness is something you bring to life.  Wayne Dyer
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Make a conscious choice to be happy …

• Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln
• Happiness and love are just a choice away. Leo Buscaglia
• It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy or choosing to be sad, or choosing to be angry, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing. Neale Donald Walsch
• A person can either do something in order to ‘be happy,’ or a person can start the day by simply deciding to ‘be happy,’ and the things that person will do will automatically reflect that. Neale Donald Walsch
• Happiness is a decision, not an experience. You can decide to be happy. Your experience is the result of your decision, not the cause of it. Neale Donald Walsch
• A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• At any given moment the choice to be happy is present – we just have to choose to be happy. Steve Maraboli
• No man is happy unless he believes he is. Publilius Syrus
• Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle
• Be happy, and a reason will come along. Robert Brault
• Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love and do what you will. Dan Millman
• Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. Donald Walters
• Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. Mildred Barthel
• I wish I had never been born,” she said. “What are we born for?” “For infinite happiness,” said the Spirit. “You can step out into it at any moment… S. Lewis
• The decision is mine, and I choose happiness. Malori Howell
• Happiness is not by chance; but by choice. Jim Rohn
• A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• You don’t need anyone else’s permission to be happy. Your life is magnificent not because someone says it is, but because you choose to see it as such. Ralph Marston
• Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. Groucho Marx
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… regardless of outside conditions

• The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. Robert Louis Stevenson
• If you decide that you’re going to be happy from now on for the rest of your life, you will not only be happy, you will be enlightened. Unconditional happiness is the highest technique there is. You don’t have to learn Sanskrit or read any scriptures. You don’t have to renounce the world. You just have to really mean it when you say that you choose to be happy. And you have to mean it regardless of what happens. This is truly a path, and it is as direct and sure a path to Awakening as could possibly exist. Michael Singer
• Things are going to happen. The real question is whether you want to be happy regardless of what happens. The purpose of your life is to enjoy and learn from your experiences. You were not put on Earth to suffer. You’re not helping anybody by being miserable. Regardless of your philosophical beliefs, the fact remains that you were born, and you are going to die. During the time in between, you get to choose whether or not you want to enjoy the experience. Events don’t determine whether or not you’re going to be happy. You can be happy to just be alive. You can be happy having all these things happen to you, and then be happy to die. If you can live this way, your heart will be so open and your Spirit will be so free, that you will soar up to the heavens. Michael Singer
• A person should so live that their happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. Epictetus

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You don’t need a reason to be happy

• True happiness is caused by nothing. True happiness is causeless. Has it ever occurred to you that if something causes your happiness, you will become possessive of that thing. You will become anxious, lest you lose it. If you ask the mystic why he or she is happy, the answer will be, ‘why not?’ Anthony De Mello
• Unhappiness may have umpteen reasons, Real Happiness has none. Nitin Ram
• In the true order of things, one does not do something in order to be happy—one is happy and, hence, does something. Neale Donald Walsch
• The secret to happiness is happiness itself. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presences of each other, the wonder of our breathing. We don’t have to travel anywhere else to do so. We can be in touch with these things right now. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Happy for No Reason isn’t elation, euphoria, mood spikes or peak experiences that don’t last. It doesn’t mean grinning like a fool 24/7 or experiencing a superficial high. Happy for No Reason isn’t an emotion. In fact, when you are Happy for No Reason, you can have any emotion—including sadness, fear, anger, or hurt—but you still experience that underlying state of peace and well- being… When you’re Happy for No Reason, you bring happiness to your outer experiences rather than trying to extract happiness from them. You don’t need to manipulate the world around you to try to make yourself happy. You live from happiness, rather than for happiness. Marci Shimoff
• Happiness cannot be given or taken away by anything that life throws at you. It is internal, unchanging, and constant. It is still, it is calm, and it is complete. It searches for nothing, it does not seek anything, it is absolute, and it is. Jac O’keeffe
• Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you. Deepak Chopra
• If you think there’s something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack. Marianne Williamson
• Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love and do what you will. Dan Millman
• Learn to experience happiness without a reason and you can create happiness for any reason. Realize that happiness and joy are not always the result of good things, oftentimes they are the cause of good things. Marc and Angel Chernoff

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Happiness is something you have to dedicate yourself to

• Consider how much time and commitment many people devote to physical exercise, whether it’s going to the gym, jogging, kickboxing, or yoga. My research reveals that if you desire greater happiness, you need to go about it in a similar way. In other words, becoming lastingly happier demands making some permanent changes that require effort and commitment every day of your life. Pursuing happiness takes work but consider that this ‘happiness work’ may be the most rewarding work you’ll ever do. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• If you’re not happy today, then you won’t be happy tomorrow unless you take things into your own hands and take action. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Unfortunately, most people put more energy into planning which car they’re going to buy than into raising their level of happiness. Marci Shimoff
• Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. Elizabeth Gilbert
• Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary. Jack H. Goaslind
• Many find it strange for a person to spend their life studying human happiness and intimacy. I find it strange for anyone not to.  Earon Davis
• Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time. Andrew Weil
• Having the right to happiness means having the right to earn it, not having it given to you without effort and action on your part. Jillian Michaels
• Once you have maintained a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it forever. Elizabeth Gilbert
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Recognise what makes you happy

• It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. Lucille Ball
• It’s good to be just plain happy; it’s a little better to know that you’re happy; but to understand that you’re happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss. Henry Miller

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Realise that happiness tends to be an ebb and a flow

• Unremitting happiness, of course, is not a possible—or desirable—state. According to the principle of rhythm, there is always an inflow and an outflow, an ebb tide and a flood tide. You’ll always have highs and lows—there’s no way to avoid that. Josè Silva
• Only a fool expects to be happy all the time. Robertson Davies
• Anybody who is happy all the time needs a psychiatrist. David A. Christensen
• A lifetime of happiness: no man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. George Bernard Shaw
• How would you know what happy is if you’ve never been otherwise? Malcolm Forbes
• You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent. Christopher Pike
• An experience can’t be happy, eternally. We are bipolar beings.  If we were purely happy all the time, it would get so damn monotonous we’d wish for some sorrow or problem to overcome, just for the sake of a challenge.  Richard Rose
• The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea. Andrew Weil
• It is unrealistic to want to be happy all the time. Andrew Weil
• The word “happiness” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Carl Jung
• The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. Charles Langbridge Morgan
• Life is an ebb and flow

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Your happiness does not need to depend on getting what you want

• The secret of happiness is simply this… your happiness does not depend on getting what you want. Michael Neill
• I like to believe that you don’t need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I prefer to think that happiness is always there, and that when things don’t go the way we might like them to, it’s a sign from above that something even better is right around the corner. David Archuleta
• My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. Michael J. Fox
• Happiness is living without expectations. Peter Cajander

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Research shows only a very small portion of our happiness is dictated by our life circumstances or getting what we want

• Only about 10 percent of the variance in our happiness levels is explained by differences in life circumstances or situations – that is, whether we are rich or poor, healthy or unhealthy, beautiful or plain, married or divorced, etc. If with a magic wand we could put a group of people into the same set of circumstances (same house, same spouse, same place of birth, same face, same aches and pains), the differences in their happiness levels would be reduced by a measly 10 percent.  Sonja Lyubomirsky
• One of the great ironies of our quest to become happier is that so many of us focus on changing the circumstances of our lives in the misguided hope that those changes will deliver happiness… An impressive body of research now shows that trying to be happy by changing our life situations ultimately will not work.  Sonja Lyubomirsky
• We cannot allow our happiness to depend on our external circumstances, for every positive event and accomplishment we experience are accompanied by rapid adaptation and escalating expectations. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• People have a remarkable capacity to become inured to any positive changes in their lives. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Human beings are actually lucky to have to have the ability to adapt quickly to changing circumstances, as it’s extremely useful when bad things happen. Some studies of hedonic adaptation show, for instance, that we have a phenomenal ability to recover much of our happiness after a debilitating illness or accident.  Sonja Lyubomirsky
• If we can accept as true that life circumstances are not the keys to happiness, we’ll be greatly empowered to pursue happiness for ourselves. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Happiness depends, as Nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. William Cowper

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Happiness is an attitude

• Attitude: A settled way of thinking or feeling about something. Oxford Dictionary
• Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. Francesca Reigler
• A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. Hugh Downs
• Attitudes may make you either a happy or an unhappy person. Of course, the inevitabilities of life can bring problems, troubles, and sadnesss to us all, but if your glass remains half full, your attitudes can help you triumph over those times.  John Marks Templeton
• Happiness comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy. The Dalai Lama
• Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them. Leo Tolstoy
• Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition. Hugh Prather
• Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. Donald Walters
• I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves. Alexander Von Humboldt
• The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy. The Dalai Lama
• The central method for achieving a happier life is to train your mind in a daily practice that weakens negative attitudes and strengthens positive ones. The Dalai Lama
• The happiness you are seeking is not to be found in the flow of life, but in your attitude toward whatever life brings. Ramesh S. Balsekar
• The ultimate source of happiness is our mental attitude. The Dalai Lama
• Whatever your condition, you can be happy if you have the right attitude. Al Koran
• By bringing about a change in our outlook toward things and events, all phenomena can become sources of happiness. The Dalai Lama
• The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same. Carlos Castaneda
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Happiness is greatly influenced by your thoughts and how you interpret events

• The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. John Milton
• Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way, we see them. Leo Tolstoy
• I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go. Martha Washington
• Most people search for happiness outside of themselves. That’s a fundamental mistake. Happiness is something you are, and it comes from the way you think. Wayne Dyer
• Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind. Alice Meynell
• Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think. Dale Carnegie
• Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius
• It is not the place, not the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable. Sir Roger L’Estrange
• There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things that we cannot control. Epictetus
• Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind. Daphne du Maurier
• Being in control of the mind means that literally anything that happens can be a source of joy. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to change the world so that they can be happy. This hasn’t ever worked, because it approaches the problem backward. What The Work gives us is a way to change the projector—mind—rather than the projected. It’s like when there’s a piece of lint on a projector’s lens. We think there’s a flaw on the screen, and we try to change this person and that person, whomever the flaw appears on next. But it’s futile to try to change the projected images. Once we realize where the lint is, we can clear the lens itself. This is the end of suffering, and the beginning of a little joy in paradise. Byron Katie
• Everybody in the world is seeking happiness – and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions. Dale Carnegie
• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. Marcus Aurelius
• To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all areas of your life you need to be aware that you need to think healthy, wealthy, and happy and successful thoughts twenty- four hours a day and cancel all negative, destructive, fearful and unhappy thoughts. These two types of thought cannot coexist if you want to share in the abundance that surrounds us all. Sydney Madwed
• It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. Dale Carnegie
• Your joy, your happiness, your satisfaction and your ability to dance with life, depends solely on what you pay attention to. Susan Jeffers
• Happiness is a state of minimum regret. Kare Anderson
• I am happy and content because I think I am. Alain-Rene Lesage
• To reach the goal of happiness, act as though the following statement is already true: Everything that happens to me is the best thing that can happen to me. Chris Prentiss
• The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. Elbert Hubbard
• Thinking,  Perception,  Interpretation

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Happiness is greatly influenced by your attention

• Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. Greg Anderson
• Your joy, your happiness, your satisfaction and your ability to dance with life, depends solely on what you pay attention to. Susan Jeffers
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Happiness comes from your response to life’s events

• I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves. Alexander Humboldt
• Our ability to respond to what happens to us—our response- ability—dramatically affects our happiness. Happy people respond to the events in their lives in a way that supports their inner peace and well- being. Marci Shimoff
• Obviously, circumstances alone do not make us happy or unhappy. It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings. Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is within you. That is where the kingdom of hell is, too. Dale Carnegie

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Happiness comes from optimism

• Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. Mary Lou Retton
• Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness. Mark Twain
• Your determination to become a more optimistic person in every part of your life will do more to ensure your success and happiness than any other single quality you can develop. Brian Tracy
• Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to switch on the light. Albus Dumbledore
• A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.
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Happiness is a method and a way of travelling and not a final destination

• Happiness is a way of travelling and not a final destination. Robert Holden
• Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. Burton Hills
• Happiness should not be looked at just as a destination we try to reach, but as a beneficial way we learn to travel. Ed Diener &Robert Biswas-Diener
• Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Margaret Lee Runbeck
• If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak. Tal Ben- Shahar
• Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over, and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them. Robert R. Updegraff
• Happiness, as we will show you, is much more of a process than an emotional destination. People frequently overlook the process side of happiness in their pursuit of the good life. Ed Diener &Robert Biswas-Diener
• It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. Denis Waitley
• It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its attainment. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• I’ve learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it. Andy Rooney
• Success and happiness are not destinations, they are exciting, never- ending journeys.  Zig Ziglar
• The rat racer’s illusion is that reaching some future destination will bring him lasting happiness; he does not recognize the significance of the journey. Tal Ben-Shahar
• The reason you want every single thing that you want, is because you think you will feel really good when you get there. But, if you don’t feel really good on your way to there, you can’t get there. You have to be satisfied with what- is while you’re reaching for more. Abraham-Hicks
• We get more pleasure from making progress toward our goals than we do from achieving them because, as Shakespeare said, “Joy’s soul lies in the doing.” Jonathan Haidt
• The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination. Dan Millman
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Happiness comes from creating the right habits

• One begins identifying those factors which lead to happiness and those factors which lead to suffering. Having done this, one then sets about gradually eliminating those factors which lead to suffering and cultivating those which lead to happiness. That is the way. His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• A few habits can have a phenomenal effect on our happiness throughout life — we get a massive bonanza from a little upfront effort. Richard Koch
• Each day do something to make you feel happy, until this becomes a habit. Remez Sasson
• Happiness is a habit – cultivate it. Elbert Hubbard
• Let’s stop pursuing happiness and start practicing it. We do that by practicing new habits. People with high happiness set- points are human just like the rest of us. They don’t have special powers, an extra heart, or X- ray vision. They just have different habits. Marci Shimoff
• Our self-image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other. When we consciously and deliberately develop new and better habits, our self-image tends to outgrow the old habits and grow into the new pattern. Maxwell Maltz
• We get more happiness with less effort if we carefully select a few excellent habits we’d like to have and master these. Richard Koch
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The key to happiness lies in our intentional activities

• Life circumstances account for only 10% of your happiness, genetics account for 50%, and intentional activities account for 40%. Intentional activities are the ways we act, think about, and respond to the world. If you want to be happier, the best way is to focus on changing your intentional activities. Warren Davies
• The key to happiness lies not in changing our genetic makeup (which is impossible) and not in changing our circumstances (i.e. seeking wealth or attractivness or better colleagues, which is usually impractical), but in our daily intentional activities. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Happiness is not about getting what you want. It’s about the mental habits you practice from moment to moment.  Willoughby Britton
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Happiness is living in harmony with your values, principles and ideals

• Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values. Ayn Rand
• A person’s quality-of-life arises from living a life which is aligned with character traits and principles which have formed the foundation of every great person or society in history. This goes beyond values, practices or religion to the laws at the heart of happiness and quality- of- life. Stephen Covey
• Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. Ayn Rand
• As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. Stephen Covey
• Becoming principle-centred is a lifetime quest, but there is intense peace and satisfaction in the journey itself. Stephen Covey
• Happiness and high performance come to you when you choose to live your life consistent with your highest values and your deepest convictions. Brian Tracy
• Happiness and peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way. Stephen Covey
• Man is the creator of his own happiness. It is the aroma of life, lived in harmony with high ideals. For what a man has he may be dependent upon others; what he is rests with him alone. David O. McKay
• Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. Harry Harrison
• There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark
• To be happy, engage only in that which accords with your highest ideals. Philip Arnold
• When you achieve complete congruence between your values and your goals, like a hand in a glove, you feel strong, happy, healthy, and fully integrated as a person. You develop a kind of courage that makes you completely unafraid to make decisions and take action. Your whole life improves when you begin living your life by the values that you most admire. Brian Tracy
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Happiness comes from living a simple life and enjoying simple pleasures

• If one’s life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. The Dalai Lama
• With greater emphasis on working to live, not living to work, we are creating awareness for simpler solutions, a more creative existence with healthier, happier longevity, for those brave enough to accept the challenge. Tracey Smith
• Simplicity is the essence of happiness. Cedric Bledsoe
• When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things – not the great occasions – that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.  Bob Hope
• Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity. Lester Levenson
• Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated. Karen Maezen Miller
• We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without. Henry David Thoreau
• Simplicity makes me happy. Alicia Keys
• What if happiness were found in the serenity of simple pleasures. What if we didn’t need the newest gizmo… the highest high? What if happiness is in the air we breathe… slowly, deeply, and consciously? What if happiness is one fresh grape, savored with gratitude? What if happiness is in our oneness with all creation? What if happiness is about enjoying life exactly as it comes to us – without chasing after it? What if happiness is something we CHOOSE…  regardless of our circumstances?  Jonathan Lockwood Huie
• If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you’re not going to be happy. If someone bases his or her happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time.  If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.  Andy Rooney
• With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy? Oscar Wilde
• A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live. Bertrand Russell
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Happiness comes from practicing mindfulness

• A series of studies conducted at the University of Rochester focused on people high in mindfulness – that is, those who are prone to be mindfully attentive to the here and now and keenly aware of their surroundings.  It turns out that such individuals are are models of flourishing and positive mental health.  Relative to the average person, they are more likely to be happy, optimistic, self- confident, and satisfied with their lives and less likely to be depressed, angry, anxious or self- conscious.  Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Breathing and walking with awareness generates the energy of mindfulness. This energy brings our mind back to our body so that we’re really here in the present moment, so we can be in touch with the wonders of life that are there inside us and around us. If we can recognize these wonders, we have happiness immediately. Fully available to the present moment, we discover that we already have enough conditions to be happy – more than enough in fact. We don’t need to go looking for anything more in the future or in some other place. That’s what we call abiding or dwelling happily in the present. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Get out of our heads and learn to experience the world directly, experientially, without the relentless commentary of our thoughts. We might just open ourselves up to the limitless possibilities for happiness that life has to offer us . Mark Williams
• Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. Thich Nhat Hanh
• The foundation of happiness is mindfulness. Thich Nhat Hanh
• The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. Thích Nhất Hạnh
• I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. Jonathan Safran Foer
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Happiness comes from nurturing good health

• The body is like a piano, and happiness is like music. It is needful to have the instrument in good order. Henry Ward Beecher
• If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want. Elbert Hubbard
• Happiness lies, first of all, in health. George William Curtis
• Happiness is nothing more than good health. Albert Schweitzer
• The groundwork of all happiness is health. James Leigh Hunt
• Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise of health. James Thomson
• What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature. Thales of Miletus, translated from Greek
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Happiness comes from personal growth and being all you can be

• I grow to experience greater happiness, not to improve or because I feel incomplete. Wayne Dyer
• Comfort kills! If your goal in life is to be comfortable, I guarantee two things. First, you will never be rich. Second, you will never be happy. Happiness doesn’t come from living a lukewarm life, always wondering what could have been. Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up to our fullest potential. T. Harv Eker
• Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It’s growth– mental, financial, you name it. Harold S. Geneen
• Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. Pearl S. Buck
• Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be. Brian Tracy
• Happiness doesn’t come from living a lukewarm life, always wondering what could have been. Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up to our fullest potential. T. Harv Eker
• Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. William Butler Yeats
• Happiness, to me, lies in stretching, to the farthest boundaries of which we are capable, the resources of the mind and heart. Leo Calvin Rosten
• I grow to experience greater happiness, not to improve or because I feel incomplete. Wayne Dyer
• Joy comes from using your potential. Will Schultz
• Self-development is a glorious quest. It’s the desire to find your own freedom. To connect with your own sense of worth, and integrity, and happiness. To enjoy abundance. Karl Moore
• The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live. Bertrand Russell
• The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent. Smiley Blanton
• True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents. John W. Gardner
• Happiness comes from using your strengths and talents
• The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent. Smiley Blanton
• What is the good life? In my view, you can find it by following a startlingly simple path. The ‘pleasant life’ might be had by drinking champagne and driving a Porsche, but not the good life. Rather, the good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification. Martin Seligman
• The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you’re gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love. Barbara Sher
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Happiness comes from acting happy

• The free expression by outward signs of an emotion intensifies it. Charles Darwin
• Pretending that you’re happy – smiling, engaged, mimicking energy and enthusiasm – not only can earn you some of the benefits of happiness (returned smkiles, strengthened friendships, success at work) but can actually make you happier. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Your face (and body and voice) send signals (feedback) to your brain, informing it that you are experiencing a particular emotion and lead you to feel it. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will. Dan Millman

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Happiness comes from smiling and laughter

• A smile is happiness you’ll find right under your nose. Tom Wilson
• Smiling is a two-way mechanism. We do it when we’re relaxed and happy but doing it can also make us feel relaxed and happy. Smiling transmits nerve impulses from the facial muscles to the limbic system, a key emotional center in the brain, tilting the neurochemical balance toward calm. Robert Cooper, Ph.D
• When people mimicked the facial expressions associated with happiness, they felt happier—even when they did not know they were moving “happy muscles” in their face. Researchers have found that smiling itself produces feelings of happiness. Robert Emmons
• Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. Thích Nhất Hạnh
• Especially in the face of stressful events, smiling and laughter can help undo negative emotions, distract, and bring about feelings of peace, amusement, or even joy. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• No matter how much madder it may make you, get out of bed forcing a smile. You may not smile because you are cheerful; but if you will force yourself to smile, you’ll end up laughing. You will be cheerful because you smile. Repeated experiments prove that when man assumes the facial expressions of a given mental mood — any given mood — then that mental mood itself will follow. Kenneth Goode
• Sometimes a little silliness is all you need to get a better perspective of life’s challenges. Silliness is the carefree, sometimes crazy, and often misunderstood stepsister of happiness.  May you be a friend to both and smile your way through life’s twists and turns.  Marc and Angel Chernoff
• I live by this credo: Have a little laugh and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Even in your darkest moment, you usually can find something to laugh about if you try hard enough. Red Skelton
• Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. Norm Papernick
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Happiness comes from outer and inner harmony

• But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? Albert Camus
• Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. Jose Marti
• Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony. James Allen
• Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. Thomas Merton
• Happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace. Suze Orman
• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi
• Just as light brightens darkness, discovering inner fulfillment can eliminate any disorder or discomfort. This is truly the key to creating balance and harmony in everything you do. Deepak Chopra
• Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness. Gabriela Sabatini
• The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. Cyril Connolly
• This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. Herman Hesse
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Happiness comes from balance

• The greatest art is to attain a balance, a balance between all opposites, a balance between all polarities. Imbalance is the disease and balance is health. Imbalance is neurosis, and balance is well-being. Osho
• If we could learn how to balance rest against effort, calmness against strain, quiet against turmoil, we would assure ourselves of joy in living and psychological health for life. Josephine Rathbone
• Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. Thomas Merton
• Happiness is a way station between too much and too little. Channing Pollock
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Happiness comes from having personal integrity

• Happiness is when what you think and what you say and what you feel are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi
• Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness – not pain or mindless self-indulgence – is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. Ayn Rand
• But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? Albert Camus
• Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi
• If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it. Immanuel Hermass von Fichte
• Man must search for what is right and let happiness come on its own. Johann Pestalozzi
• Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. James Freeman Clarke
• Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unbreakable. Buddha
• Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow. Sogyal Rinpoche
• There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark
• When we do wrong, we come to suffering. When we do good in the world, we come to happiness. The Bhagavad Gita
• Happiness comes from character
• Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character. George Santayana
• Happiness is inward and not outward, and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. Henry van Dyke
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Happiness comes from calmness

• Learn to be calm and you will always be happy. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Happiness cannot be given or taken away by anything that life throws at you. It is internal, unchanging, and constant. It is still, it is calm, and it is complete. It searches for nothing, it does not seek anything, it is absolute, and it is. Jac O’keeffe
• Pleasure is a river running to the sea; happiness is the full, calm sea. Peter Kreeft
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Happiness comes from creativity

• Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. Linus Pauling
• The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest. Robert Lynd
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Happiness comes from being yourself

• It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. Desiderius Erasmus
• When you’re truly happy, you are being yourself. Robert Holden
• The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is. Desiderius Erasmus
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Happiness comes from courage

• The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. Thucydides
• Following your heart rather than following the crowd gives you much more chance to find happiness and fulfillment, but it takes courage. Many people are afraid of being different, of not being accepted by those around them, and of standing out rather than blending in. Amanda Harvey
• We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. Maxwell Maltz
• All happiness depends on courage and work. Honoré de Balzac
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Happiness comes from excitement

• Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all. When people suggest you follow your “passion” or your “bliss,” I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: excitement. Tim Ferris
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Happiness comes from frugality

• If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness. Oliver Goldsmith
• Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things. Elise Boulding
• How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart. Nikos Kazantzakis
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Happiness comes from inner strength

• To find the happiness we all desire we have to figure out: (1) what to do, (2) how to do it, (3) where to get the strength to get it done. … Even when we seem to be hung up on what to do or how to do it this hang- up is rarely the real problem. The problem is we don’t have the strength to do what will make us happy. It is hard for us to admit to ourselves that we don’t have what it takes so we tend to rationalize, to weep and wail about not knowing what to do or how to do it. As much as we may complain, we usually know that what we lack is not the know- how, but the strength.  William Glasser
• True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances. Daisaku Ikeda
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Happiness comes from the ability to adapt to change

• They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Confucius
• The best path to happiness is learning to change as rapidly as life does. Don Miguel Ruiz
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Happiness comes from having a sense of meaning

• Although hedonic pleasures have their place, it is crucial that we don’t allow them to distract or discourage us from pursuing the deeper sense of well-being that only eudaemonic happiness can bring. When we pursue this kind of happiness, we reach beyond ourselves, moving from a mentality of Me toward an appreciation of We. In our experience, this is a process that begins when you find the courage to reexamine your goals and values, the patience to look for the meaning in what you do, and the inner strength necessary to live a life of purpose. Craig & Marc Kielburger
• To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble. Bill Watterson
• I define happiness as ‘the overall experience of pleasure and meaning.’ A happy person enjoys positive emotions while perceiving her life as purposeful. The definition does not pertain to a single moment but to a generalized aggregate of one’s experiences: a person can endure emotional pain at times and still be happy overall. Tal Ben- Shahar
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Happiness comes from having a sense of purpose

• Finding and creating your life’s work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do – your unique and special vocation…Your life’s work involves doing what you love and loving what you do. Dennis Kimbro
• Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. David Augsberger
• Happiness is the sense that one matters. Sarah Trimmer
• If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life. Jack H. Goaslind
• It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfilment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. Denis Waitley
• Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. Wilfred T. Grenfell
• The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. William Cowper
• The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. Hugo LaFayette Black
• This is the true joy in life–being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. George Bernard Shaw
• To be fully alive means opening yourself up to all dimensions of life—sadness as well as joy, and pain as well as pleasure. It also involves committing yourself to a search for personal meaning and transcendent goals—of which happiness is a by- product. Robert W. Firestone
• True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller
• We all have something that we are meant to do. Your genius will shine through, and happiness will fill your life, the instant you discover your higher purpose and then direct all your energies towards it. Robin Sharma
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Happiness comes from giving

• A man’s highest happiness is found in the bestowal of benefits on those he loves; love finds its most natural and spontaneous expression in giving. Wallace D. Wattles
• Generosity breeds an immediate kind of happiness, which is different than other practices, which often have a delayed positive reinforcement. This helps generosity beget more generosity with less and less effort. Joseph Goldstein
• Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. Wilfred Grenfell
• Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. Eleanor Roosevelt
• The desire to have, to acquire and possess, is in principle insatiable, and rarely generates the sense of fulfillment and happiness it promises. By contrast, only the desire to contribute, or to give can reliably, when acted on, yield the true sense of satisfaction we all deeply need. The conclusion I draw from this is that each of us should be guided in our goal setting by the simple question: “How can I best make my contribution to the world?” In our own priorities, doing should always precede having. Only then will we have what we most truly need. Tom Morris
• The template for happiness is to offer goodness to the world for true happiness is achieved when one gives freely of their heart and soul. Micheal Teal
• Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness. Ray Lyman Wilbur
• When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world? Oprah Winfrey
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Happiness comes from serving

• The desire to have, to acquire and possess, is in principle insatiable, and rarely generates the sense of fulfillment and happiness it promises. By contrast, only the desire to contribute, or to give can reliably, when acted on, yield the true sense of satisfaction we all deeply need. The conclusion I draw from this is that each of us should be guided in our goal setting by the simple question: “How can I best make my contribution to the world?” In our own priorities, doing should always precede having. Only then will we have what we most truly need. Tom Morris
• I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. Albert Schweitzer
• In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. Karl Reiland
• Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness. Ray Lyman Wilbur
• Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness. Zoroaster
• If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody. Chinese proverb
• The greatest life one can have is of service. Give joy, happiness, bliss, laughter, wisdom, prosperity, love and light to others. By doing so, you tap into the Infinite Source within ensuring that you will never have to do without these “treasures” yourself!” Lateef Warnick
• Usefulness is happiness, and… all other things are but incidental. Lydia Maria Child
• Life is a place of service and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. Leo Tolstoy
• One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. Dick Gregory
• The only ones among you who will be truly happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. Albert Schweitzer
• Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life. Carrie Chapman Catt
• Those who are the happiest are those who do the most for others. Booker T. Washington
• No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. You must live for others if you wish to live for yourself. Seneca
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Happiness comes from helping

• Helping oneself and helping others are inextricably intertwined: the more we help others, the happier we become, and the happier we become, the more inclined we are to help others. Tal Ben- Shahar
• I think I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. Booker T. Washington
• If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a month, get married.  If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody. Chinese proverb
• In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. Karl Reiland
• In his research, Luks studied thousands of volunteers and discovered that they achieved a “helper’s high” that was very similar to what a person experiences after a long run. It’s a euphoric feeling that, unlike “runner’s high,” lasts for several weeks. Tim Sanders
• The human being who lives only for him or herself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.  Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.  C. Forbes
• Usefulness is happiness, and… all other things are but incidental. Lydia Maria
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Happiness comes from making others happy

• Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness. Rabbi Harold Kushner
• Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. Gretta Brooker Palmer
• Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I began to see that nothing I can do will bring me happiness unless it includes happiness for others. Whenever I suffer, it’s really because I have discounted the other. The flip side of that is being genuinely concerned for the other. When this happens, we have a true spontaneous moment of satisfaction, happiness, and joy. Richard Gere
• In my own limited experience, I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well- being. The Dalai Lama
• In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself.
• Life laughs at you when you are unhappy. Life smiles at you when you are happy.  But, life salutes you when you make others happy.  Charlie Chaplin
• No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. Helen Keller
• Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. Og Mandino
• Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. James Freeman Clarke
• Someday you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own. It is something I cannot explain, something within that sends a glow of warmth all through you. Honore de Balzac
• The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy. Luther Burbank
• The happiness of one’s own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one’s own happiness, the happiness of others. Paramahansa Yogananda
• The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. Robert Baden- Powell
• The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. Robert Ingersoll
• The way to be happy is to make others so. Robert Ingersoll
• There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind – – are always attained by giving them to someone else.  Peyton Conway March
• Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. George Linnaeus Banks
• True happiness consists in making others happy. Hindu proverb
• You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others. Chinese Proverb

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Happiness comes from contribution

• Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfilment. Tony Robbins
• A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others. Hans Selye
• The desire to have, to acquire and possess, is in principle insatiable, and rarely generates the sense of fulfillment and happiness it promises. By contrast, only the desire to contribute, or to give can reliably, when acted on, yield the true sense of satisfaction we all deeply need. The conclusion I draw from this is that each of us should be guided in our goal setting by the simple question: “How can I best make my contribution to the world?” In our own priorities, doing should always precede having. Only then will we have what we most truly need. Tom Morris
• You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution. Robert F. Kennedy
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Happiness comes from acts of kindness

• When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel. Harold Kushner
• Doing good to others is not a duty; it is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness. Marcia Simon
• Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live. Charles M. Schwab
• The big finding was that people experienced longer-lasting improvements in mood from the kindness and gratitude activities than from those in which they indulged themselves. Jonathan Haidt
• The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions–the little, soon- forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness. Lionel Barrymore
• To the same degree that you are kind, you will be happy. Reuben Lowe
• We scientists have found that doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well- being of any exercise we have tested. Martin Seligman
• When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. The Dalai Lama
• Without kindness, there can be no true joy. Thomas Carlyle
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Happiness comes from compassion

• The more we think of others, the happier we are. The more we think of ourselves, the more suffering we feel. The Dalai Lama
• Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek. The Dalai Lama
• If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. The Dalai Lama
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Happiness comes from loving yourself

• Happiness is having a sense of self – not a feeling of being perfect but of being good enough and knowing that you are in the process of growth, of being, of achieving levels of joy. Leo Buscaglia
• Happiness is in many things. It’s in love. It’s in sharing. But most of all, it’s in being at peace with yourself knowing that you are making the effort, the full effort, to do what is right. John Wooden
• Happiness is looking in a mirror and liking what you see.
• Having a low opinion of yourself is not “modesty”. It’s self- destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not “egotism”. It’s a necessary precondition to happiness and success. Bobbe Sommer
• Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness. Ayn Rand
• Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body. Maxwell Maltz
• To know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self- esteem. Nathaniel Branden
• Unless you are happy with yourself, you will not be happy. Robert Holden
• Happiness is really a deep harmonious inner satisfaction and approval. Francis Wilshire
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Happiness comes from loving and being loved

• Happiness is an attribute of love. It cannot be apart from it. Nor can it be experienced where love is not. Love has no limits, being everywhere. A Course In Miracles
• Happiness is love, nothing else. Herman Hesse
• In the midst of pain and urgent trouble we cannot realize the supreme happiness of being loved — sweetest and deepest of all meditations…. Byron Caldwell Smith
• Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everthing, you will be happiest. Sri Chinmoy
• Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that. Michael Leunig
• Love and happiness go hand in hand. David Kam
• Love is the greatest refreshment in life. Pablo Picasso
• Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Love makes you empty — empty of jealousy, empty of power trips, empty of anger, empty of competitiveness, empty of your ego and all its garbage. But love also makes you full of things which are unknown to you right now; it makes you full of fragrance, full of light, full of joy. Osho
• Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Bertrand Russell
• People who love each other fully and truly are the happiest people in the world. They may have little, they may have nothing, but they are happy people. Everything depends on how we love one another. Mother Teresa
• The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. Oscar Wilde
• The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give. Oprah Winfrey
• The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes. Leo Tolstoy
• The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved. Victor Hugo
• There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. George Sand
• When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. The Dalai Lama
• You have all the tools right now to make this day, this moment, happy. The best of these tools is love. Just love everything that Life has to offer today. And of course, love every person. Then watch the whole experience change. Neale Donald Walsch
• Your intention to love, not matter what, is the absolute key to happiness. Robert Holden

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Happiness comes from healthy self esteem

• Happiness does not come in large incomes or the most exotic home, it comes in small doses of a great self-esteem which can be built upon the strengths of an individual. Nicholas A. McGirr
• Happiness is having a sense of self – not a feeling of being perfect but of being good enough and knowing that you are in the process of growth, of being, of achieving levels of joy. Leo Buscaglia
• Happiness is in many things. It’s in love. It’s in sharing. But most of all, it’s in being at peace with yourself knowing that you are making the effort, the full effort, to do what is right. John Wooden
• Happiness is looking in a mirror and liking what you see.
• Happiness is really a deep inner satisfaction and approval. Francis Wiltshire
• Having a low opinion of yourself is not “modesty”. It’s self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not “egotism”. It’s a necessary precondition to happiness and success. Bobbe Sommer
• Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not ‘egotism.’ It’s a necessary precondition to happiness and success. Bobbe Sommer
• Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness. Ayn Rand
• Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness. Louise Hart
• To know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self- esteem. Nathaniel Branden
• Unless you are happy with yourself, you will not be happy. Robert Holden
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Happiness comes from gratitude and appreciation

• Appreciation and gratitude are a must if you choose to become the architect of increased happiness and your own fulfillment. Doc Childre
• Contentment is a state of grace, a state of peace and happiness, appreciation and enjoyment for what is, right now. Gillian Stokes
• Feel gratitude for everything. When we see every situation as being perfect just the way it is, happiness grows and grows. Daniel Levin
• Gratitude is a deeper, more complex phenomenon that plays a critical role in human happiness. Gratitude is literally one of the few things that can measurably change peoples’ lives. Robert Emmons
• Gratitude is one of the sweet shortcuts to finding peace of mind and happiness inside. No matter what’s going on outside of us, there’s always something we could be grateful for. Barry Neil Kaufman
• Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. Denis Waitley
• Happiness is in itself a kind of gratitude. Joseph Wood Krutch
• If you want to find happiness, find gratitude. Steve Maraboli
• In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy. Albert Clarke
• It is a law of life, and an inexorable principle, that if we develop an attitude of gratitude our happiness will increase. John Marks Templeton
• Our inner happiness depends not on what we experience, but on the degree of our gratitude to God, whatever the experience. Albert Schweitzer
• People who are consistently grateful have been found to be relatively happier, more energetic, and more hopeful and to report experiencing more frequent positive emotions. They also tend to be more helpful and empathic, more spiritual and religious, more forgiving, and less materialistic than others who are less predisposed to gratefulness. Furthermore, the more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful. Elizabeth Carter
• Remember that one who forgets the language of gratitude can never be on speaking terms with happiness. John Robbins
• The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles. William Penn
• We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. Frederick Keonig
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Happiness is being content with what you have

• Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little. Marguerite Gardiner
• Happiness is not having what you want. It’s wanting what you have.
• If you don’t enjoy what you have, how could you be happier with more?
• Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. Dale Carnegie
• Happiness is not having what you want. It’s wanting what you have.
• It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
• Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it. William Feather quotes
• If you aren’t happy with what you’ve got, you probably aren’t going to be happy with anything else. Henri Junttila
• The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. Doug Larson
• My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum—what I called emotional sea level—is not happiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice. Andrew Weil
• 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.
• We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. Frederick Koenig
• You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. Horace
• Admit to your contentment so it can tip over into joy. Danielle LaPorte
• If you aren’t happy with what you’ve got, you probably aren’t going to be happy with anything else. Henri Junttila
• Admit to your contentment so it can tip over into joy. Danielle LaPorte
• Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. Dale Carnegie
• Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach. Bob Goddard
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… and enjoying what we have

• It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles Haddon Spurgeon
• Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it. William Feather
• 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.
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Happiness is an appreciation of the simple things in life

• Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of fortune that happen but seldom. Benjamin Franklin
• The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. Henry Ward Beecher
• The art of contentment is the recognition that the most satisfying and the most dependably refreshing experiences of life lie not in great things but in little. Edgar A. Collard
• One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats. Iris Murdoch
• How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart. Nikos Kazantzakis
• Happiness is a warm puppy. Charles M. Schulz
• There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. Ben Williams
• Happiness is a side dish of French fries. Charles Schulz
• When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things – not the great occasions – that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.  Bob Hope
• The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions–the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Happiness comes from nurturing healthy relationships

• Cultivating positive relationships is essential to overall psychological wealth. Although people differ in their need for social relationships, and in the types of social relationships they most enjoy, we all need to receive and give social support. We all need to be loved and to love others. Ed Diener & Robert Biswas-Diener
• Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot be purchased with money. Robert J. Havighurst
• If you want to predict how happy someone is, or how long she will live (and if you are not allowed to ask about her genes or personality), you should find out about her social relationships. Having strong social relationships strengthens the immune system, extends life (more than does quitting smoking), speeds recovery from surgery, and reduces the risks of depression and anxiety disorders. Jonathan Haidt
• Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Of all the things which provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. Epicurus
• One of the strongest findings in the literature is that happy people have better relationships than do their less happy peers. It’s no surprise, then, that investing in social relationships is a potent strategy on the path to becoming happier.  Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Recent research shows that there are some things worth striving for; there are some external conditions of life that can make you lastingly happier. One of these conditions is relatedness—the bonds we form, and need to form, with others. Jonathan Haidt
• Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Og Mandino
• The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give. Oprah Winfrey
• There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. George Sand
• Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power, or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect. Jackson Brown Jr.
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Happiness comes from close friendships

• Of all the things which provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. Epicurus
• Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. Pythagoras
• Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence. Sydney Smith
• Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. Eustace Budgell
• Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living. Amanda Bradley
• No people are happier on this earth than those who have friends with whom they can talk, with whom they can live, with whom they can have a friendly chat. Hitopadesa
• One true friend adds more to our happiness than a thousand enemies add to our unhappiness. Marie Dubsky
• Years and years of happiness only make us realize how lucky we are to have friends that have shared and made that happiness a reality. Robert E. Frederick
• No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy. Thomas Fuller
• True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice. Ben Jonson
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Happiness is amplified when shared

• Happiness held is the seed. Happiness shared is the flower. John Harrigan
• Happiness is in many things. It’s in love. It’s in sharing. But most of all, it’s in being at peace with yourself knowing that you are making the effort, the full effort, to do what is right. John Wooden
• Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. Bernard Meltzer
• Happiness is only real when shared. Jon Krakauer
• Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. Charlotte Brontë
• Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Norman MacEwan
• Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Og Mandino
• There’s a great joy in my giving. It’s thrilling. It’s exhilarating. It’s important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy. Clement Stone
• This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. If we share with caring, light-heartedness, and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will have been worthwhile. Deepak Chopra
• Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Gautama Buddha
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Happiness is living fully in the moment …

• Happiness is derived from the essence of your being in this moment. Eckhart Tolle
• Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn, or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. Denis Waitley
• A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don’t allow the happy moment, because they’re so busy trying to get a happy life. Abraham-Hicks
• Happy people know that regardless of what happened yesterday, last month, years ago—or what might happen later today, tomorrow, or next year—now is the only place where happiness can actually be found and experienced. Richard Carlson
• You cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now. Eckhart Tolle
• Happiness is genuine satisfaction with your present experience. Raymond Charles Barker
• The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. Robert G. Ingersoll
• Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam
• The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. James Oppenheim
• Waste not time searching for happiness. Freeze frame time, still the moment, and observe the happiness that already surrounds you. Mary Rain
• People believe themselves to be dependent on what happens for their happiness. They don’t realize that what happens is the most unstable thing in the universe. It changes constantly. They look upon the present moment as either marred by something that has happened and shouldn’t have or as deficient because of something that has not happened but should have. And so they miss the deeper perfection that is inherent in life itself, a perfection that lies beyond what is happening or not happening. Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is untouched by time. Eckhart Tolle
• Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own; He who secure within can say: Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Horatius
• Relax into the moment and let the universe do the driving. If there was a secret to happiness in life, I’d say that was it. Jed McKenna
• It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available—more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more. Thich- Nhat- Hanh
• The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. Thich Nhat Hanh
• If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. Taisen Deshimaru
• It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis. Margaret Bonnano
• True happiness is … to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. Seneca
• Be happy in the moment – that’s enough. Each moment is all we need – not more. Mother Teresa
• Meanwhile, life keeps moving forward. The truth is, there’s no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when? Richard Carlson
• Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. Jim Rohn
• Sometimes we develop grand concepts of what happiness might look like for us, but if we pay attention, we can see that there are little symbols of happiness in every breath that we take. His Holiness Gyalwang Karmapa
• Happiness, not in another place, but this place… not for another hour, but for this hour. Walt Whitman
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… and not being stuck in the past or future

• Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. Jane Austen
• Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. Jim Rohn
• Another belief: Happiness is in the future. Not true. Right here and now you are happy and you do not know it because your false beliefs and your distorted perceptions have got you caught up in fears, anxieties, attachments, conflicts, guilt and a host of games that you are programmed to play. If you would see through this, you would realize that you are happy and you do not know it. Anthony De Mello
• Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. Earl Nightingale
• Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period or other, when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other: it is our own. Charles Colton
• The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past. Andre Maurois
• Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don’t put off being happy until some future date. Dale Carnegie
• True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. Seneca
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Happiness comes from acceptance

• Happiness is allowing yourself to be okay with what is, rather than wishing for, and bemoaning, what is not. Obviously, what is is what is supposed to be, or it would not be. The rest is just you, arguing with life. Somewhere along the way you will have to learn to just trust Life. Neale Donald Walsch
• Happiness is a function of accepting what is. Werner Erhard
• Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept. Ken Keys, Jr.
• Happiness can exist only in acceptance. Denis De Rougamont
• I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any condition. Artur Rubinstein
• Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted. – Deepak Chopra
• ..no formula for success exists except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. Arthur Rubinstein
• My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.” Michael J. Fox
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Happiness comes from being and allowing

• Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle.  Just Be.  Thich Nhat Hanh
• It’s so easy – this quest – this search for the meaning of life. It’s not a search at all – at least not a physical searching.  It’s an allowing – giving ourselves permission to be happy regardless of what may lay in front of us or behind us.  Choosing to be happy is the combination to the padlocked door separating us from all that we can be, do or have.  David Ault
• The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event –through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you – ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are. Eckhart Tolle
• If you want to be happy, be. Leo Tolstoy
• Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Guillaume Apollinaire
• They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods. Edith Wharton
• Everything that I think that I need to do, is all only in order to propel me to some place, that when I get there I think I will be happier. So, everything that I am doing, no matter what it is, all of my lists of rights and wrongs, are all about me getting to a manifestation, that I believe I will then be happier…So, why don’t I take a short cut and just be happy? Abraham-Hicks
• Ever since happiness heard your name, it’s been running through the streets trying to find you. Rumi
• Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself. Norman Vincent Peale
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The more you grasp and strive for happiness, the less likely you are to find it

• The farmer loses his watch in the barn. He gets a group of boys to go into the barn and try to find it. They search high and low but cannot locate it. They leave. One of the boys then goes in alone and comes out with the watch. “How did you find it?” asks the famer. The boy says, “I found it by sitting quietly and listening for the ticking.”   It’s the same with happiness. If you sit quietly, it’ll come and find you. Behram Ghista
• Happiness is like a cat; if you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you’ll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap. William John Bennett
• 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. Nathanial Hawthorne
• If only we’d stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton
• The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase, if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it. C P Snow
• There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. Buddha
• Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. Samuel Levenson
• Don’t seek happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Eckhart Tolle
• Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. Emerson Andrews
• Happiness is not found by searching for it, because you find it only when you realize you already have it. David Charles
• My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it. Chuang Tzu
• 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
• Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild- goose chase and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.  Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and sits softly on your shoulder. Henry David Thoreau
• The notion that happiness must be found is so pervasive that even the familiar phrase “pursuit of happiness” implies that happiness is an object that one has to chase or discover. I don’t like the phrase.  I prefer to think of the “creation” or “construction” of happiness because research shows that it’s in our power to fashion it for ourselves.  Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived. Eleanor Roosevelt
• There is an unfortunate belief that happiness is a reward, a reward that comes only after spending many years struggling in the pursuit of happiness. Martin Boroson
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Doing what you love

• Alright, the secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it. Robin Sharma
• Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well- being than any other single factor. Paul Hawken
• Do what you love. If you don’t know what brings you joy, ask, “What is my joy?” As you commit to your joy, you will attract an avalanche of joyful things because you are radiating joy. Rhonda Byrne
• Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you’re gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love. Barbara Sher
• Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. Benjamin Spock
• Happiness is the result of doing what brings you joy. It is not a goal to be achieved. Rather than focus on being happy (for the sake of being happy), do what makes you happy instead. Celestine Chua
• He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert. Find a happy person, and you will find a project. W. Béran Wolfe
• It is essential to our wellbeing, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing. Marcia Wieder
• Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions. William Hazlitt
• Real life is doing something which you love to do with your whole being so that there is no inner contradiction, no war between what you are doing and what you think you should do. Life is then a completely integrated process in which there is tremendous joy. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best. Napoleon Hill
• The happiest people in the world are people who love what they are doing, regardless of whether wealth, fame, power and elevated social status ever come their way. The most fulfilled people are individuals who delight in their work, whatever it might be, and strive to do it well. Tom Morris
• The more passions and desires one has, the more ways one has of being happy. Charlotte- Catherine
• The saddest people I’ve ever met in life are the ones who don’t care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there’s nothing to make it last. Nicholas Sparks
• The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure. Francoise de Motteville
• To be happy for a year, win the lottery. To be happy for life, love what you do. Mary Higgins Clark
• To love what you do and feel that it matters—how could anything else be more fun? Katharine Graham
• We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Albert Einstein
• Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure; where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness. Saint Augustine
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Happiness is being yourself and following your own heart, not others’ expectations

• It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. Desiderius Erasmus
• When you’re truly happy, you are being yourself. Robert Holden
• My whole teaching is: Just be what you are and don’t care a bit about the world. Then you will feel a tremendous relaxation and a deep peace within your heart. That is your original face, relaxed, without tensions, without pretensions, without hypocrisies, without the so- called disciplines of how you should behave. Osho
• He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another’s keeping. Oliver Goldsmith
• To be happy, we must not be too concerned with what others think. Albert Camus
• We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves. Duc de La Rochefoucauld
• We don’t always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail… We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart. Julia Cameron
• Being happy requires that you define your life in your own terms and then throw your whole heart into living your life to the fullest. In a way, happiness requires that you be perfectly selfish in order to develop yourself to a point where you can be unselfish for the rest of your life. Brian Tracy
• Joy of life seems to arise from a sense of being where one belongs. … All the discontented people I know are trying sedulously to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do. David Grayson
• Be who you are,  Follow your own path

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Happiness is working towards something bigger than yourself …

• We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something outside ourselves. Ethel Perry Andrus
• That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great. Willa Cather
• Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself. Viktor Frankl
• Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life. Carrie Chapman Catt
• It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuous intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world. Ernest A. Fitzgerald

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… working towards worthy goals

• If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Andrew Carnegie
• We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. Earl Nightingale
• Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself. Viktor Frankl
• It you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal not to people or things. Albert Einstein
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Happiness comes from doing worthwhile work we enjoy

• All happiness depends on courage and work. Honoré de Balzac
• Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. Dale Carnegie
• Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most people this comes chiefly through their work. Bertrand Russell
• Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction. Anne Frank
• Few persons realize how much of their happiness is dependent upon their work, upon the fact that they are busy and not left to feed upon themselves. Blessed is the person who has some congenial work, some occupation in which to place one’s heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces that are in him or her.  John Burroughs
• Happiness is the real sense of fulfillment that comes from hard work. Joseph Barbara
• Happiness mainly depends on man’s ability to work and the way in which he does it. Richard L. Evans
• Happiness, I have discovered, is nearly always a rebound from hard work. It is one of the follies of men to imagine that they can enjoy mere thought, or emotion, or sentiment!  As well try to eat beauty!  For happiness must be tricked! She loves to see people at work.  She loves sweat, weariness, self-sacrifice.  She will not be found in palaces but lurking in cornfields and factories and hovering over littered desks: she crowns the unconscious head of the busy child.  If you look up suddenly from hard work, you will see her, –but if you look too long she fades sorrowfully away. David Grayson
• I don’t remember ever seeing a happy man who had nothing to do.
• I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man. Samuel Johnson
• Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it. Anna Brownell Jameson
• So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do, or doing a thing badly, unsuccessfully or incompetently. Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.  True happiness comes to those who do their work well, followed by a refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day. Lin Yutang
• The happiest people in the world are people who love what they are doing, regardless of whether wealth, fame, power and elevated social status ever come their way. The most fulfilled people are individuals who delight in their work, whatever it might be, and strive to do it well. Tom Morris
• There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. Henry Ford
• Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others. Buddha
• Work,  Passion,  Do what you love

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Happiness is immersing yourself in worthwhile activities and projects

• If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert. Find a happy person, and you will find a project. W. Béran Wolfe
• People rarely feel particularly happy or alive when inactive except for short periods of time between their exertions. Although they may get tired and tense when continuously on the go, they are easily bored and listless when they constantly rest. Passive “enjoyments,” such as reading, play- going, or watching sporting events, are often entertaining and relaxing. But a steady diet of this kind of “activity” often leads to dullness and apathy. Intelligent people tend to require vitally absorbing activity to stay most alive and happy. They rarely are enthusiastic for any length of time unless they have some rather complex, absorbing, and challenging occupations or interests. Albert Ellis & Robert A. Harper
• A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others. Hans Selye
• True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. Antoine de Saint- Exupery
• The secret to happiness is something to do. John Burroughs
• Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool. John Mason Good
• Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. Paul Goodman
• For many people, the primary goal in life is happiness. Yet research indicates that happiness is most often a by- product of participating in worthwhile projects and activities that do not have as their primary focus the attainment of happiness itself. Craig & Marc Kielburger
• We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Charles Kingsley
• Happiness is something you notice you are feeling later… after you’ve been in action for a while. It’s not something to worry about ahead of time. Steve Chandler
• Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. Aldous Huxley
• Happiness is a state of activity. Aristotle
• There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating. Frederick Delius
• Happiness . . . it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt
• He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• To fill the hour – that is happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Happiness is in the doing, not in getting what you want. Ethan Hawke
• Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act. Leo F. Buscaglia
• We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Albert Einstein
• Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt
• We must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary to us than thought. Hazlitt
• Happily achieve instead of achieving to be happy. Tony Robbins
• There is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli
• That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. Willa Sibert Cather
• ..it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Don’t think you can relax your way to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing. Jackson Brown Jr.
• The key to happiness is not being rich; it’s doing something arduous and creating something of value and then being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor. Arthur Brooks
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Happiness comes from increasing our flow experiences

• Flow is a state of intense absorption and involvement with the present moment. You’re totally immersed in what you’re doing, fully concentrating, and unaware of yourself.  The activity you’re performing is engrossing, stretching your your skills and expertise.  When in flow, people report feeling strong and efficacious, at the peak of their abilities, alert, in control, and completely unselfconscious.  They do the activity for the sheer sake of doing it.  Sonja Lyubomirsky
• If we train ourselves to obtain flow in as many circumstances as possible, we will have happier lives. Flow is inherently pleasurable and fulfilling, and the enjoyment you obtain is generally of the type that is lasting and reinforcing.  Flow provides a natural high.  Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly. Ivan Turgenev
• Go with the flow,  Flow states

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Happiness comes from living a life of virtue

• Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue. Aristotle
• Virtue is the conformity of our affections and actions with the public good, or the voluntary production of the greatest happiness in ourselves and others. Wellins Calcott
• If virtue promises good fortune and tranquility and happiness, certainly also the progress towards virtue is progress towards each of these things. Epictetus
• There is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness. George Washington
• Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue. John Webster
• Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. William S. Burroughs
• The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement…. Aristotle
• Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God. Joseph Smith Jr.
• When you are unilaterally virtuous, you head directly toward your own enlightened self- interest whether or not the other person cooperates. It feels good to be good, enjoying “the bliss of blamelessness” with a mind untroubled by guilt or regret. Staying principled fosters inner peace by reducing the wrangles that would otherwise weigh on your mind. It increases the odds that others will treat you well in return. Rick Hanson
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Happiness comes from doing good

• Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.  Maurice Maeterlinck
• An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it. Maurice Maeterlinck
• Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well-being. Debbie Macomber
• Dedication to goodness–dedication in response to an inner moral mandate rather than external restraint– was both the antidote to the pain and the source of great happiness.  Sylvia Boorstein
• Do good and feel good. Do bad and feel bad.  It’s that simple.
• Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good. Walter Savage Londor
• Happiness is found in doing good
• Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. James Freeman Clarke
• Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy. Buddha
• She tended to be impatient with that sort of intellectual who, for all his brilliance, has never been able to arrive at the simple conclusion that to be reasonably happy you have to be reasonably good. Carolyn Kizer
• There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind – –   are always attained by giving them to someone else.  Peyton Conway March
• Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. George Linnaeus Banks
• Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions. The Dalai Lama
• Right action,  Right speech,  Goodness

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Happiness comes from a clear conscience

• One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience. George Sand
• There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. Ogden Nash
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True happiness is far deeper than simple pleasure

• Although hedonic pleasures have their place, it is crucial that we don’t allow them to distract or discourage us from pursuing the deeper sense of well- being that only eudaemonic happiness can bring. When we pursue this kind of happiness, we reach beyond ourselves, moving from a mentality of Me toward an appreciation of We. In our experience, this is a process that begins when you find the courage to re-examine your goals and values, the patience to look for the meaning in what you do, and the inner strength necessary to live a life of purpose. Craig & Marc Kielburger
• Don’t mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs. Josh Billings
• Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. George Sheehan
• If hedonic happiness is the happiness of the senses, then eudaemonic happiness is the happiness of the soul. It is found in activities that are aligned with our fundamental human needs for meaning, connection, and personal growth, and it brings a sense of engagement, contentment, and fulfillment. This is the happiness we feel when we spend time with loved ones and when we grow as people. Unlike with hedonic happiness, time spent in eudaemonic pursuits fundamentally changes us, allowing us to flourish and grow as individuals and as communities. Craig & Marc Kielburger
• Pleasure comes from the outside, happiness from the inside. Remez Sasson
• Pleasure is a river running to the sea; happiness is the full, calm sea. Peter Kreeft
• Pleasure is great – but it doesn’t last. Pleasure comes from your five senses. From a great meal, a nice glass of wine and a new car. Nothing wrong with these things – they make the experience of life better. But they are fleeeting… Happiness is the DNA of pleasure. My point is simply this: Pleasure comes from something on the outside. Happiness comes from within. It’s a state you create by choice. It’s a decision. It’s an act of will. People can be happy while they are going through great pain and adversity. There’s no pleasure evident in their external lives yet they are content on the inside. And conversely, tons of people are surrounded by pleasure (fast cars, nice homes, great clothes) but there is no joy within. So choose to be happy.   Robin Sharma
• Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man. Muhammad Ali
• Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
• The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount. Joseph Addison
• To find recreation in amusement is not happiness. Blaise Pascal
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Pleasure comes from the outside, happiness from the inside

• Pleasure is great – but it doesn’t last. Pleasure comes from your five senses. From a great meal, a nice glass of wine and a new car. Nothing wrong with these things – they make the experience of life better. But they are fleeeting… Happiness is the DNA of pleasure. My point is simply this: Pleasure comes from something on the outside. Happiness comes from within. It’s a state you create by choice. It’s a decision. It’s an act of will. People can be happy while they are going through great pain and adversity. There’s no pleasure evident in their external lives yet they are content on the inside. And conversely, tons of people are surrounded by pleasure (fast cars, nice homes, great clothes) but there is no joy within. So choose to be happy.   Robin Sharma
• Pleasure comes from the outside, happiness from the inside. Remez Sasson

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Pleasure comes from the senses, happiness from the soul

• If hedonic happiness is the happiness of the senses, then eudemonic happiness is the happiness of the soul. It is found in activities that are aligned with our fundamental human needs for meaning, connection, and personal growth, and it brings a sense of engagement, contentment, and fulfillment. This is the happiness we feel when we spend time with loved ones and when we grow as people. Unlike with hedonic happiness, time spent in eudemonic pursuits fundamentally changes us, allowing us to flourish and grow as individuals and as communities. Craig & Marc Kielburger
• The senses,  The soul

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Don’t let your happiness depend on any one thing for this leads to attachment

• Enjoy everything in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependant on an attachment to any person, place or thing. Wayne Dyer
• Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose. S. Lewis
• You can have anything you wish in your life, but if your sense of self-worth or your happiness depends on it, then you are attached to it. Whoever or whatever you are attached to can manipulate you. You are no longer free. Michelle Mayur
• What you usually call your happiness is actually your chain: Your job, your home, your possessions… Anthony de Mello
• Happiness never comes from the outside. Only when you are not depending on anything from the outside for your happiness are you totally independent. Sri Swami Satchidananda
• Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose. S. Lewis
• The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. William Saroyan
• Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. Sigmund Freud
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Happiness is letting go of excessive attachments

• The secret of happiness lies in the mind’s release from worldly ties. Buddha
• The secret of happiness is simply this… your happiness does not depend on getting what you want. Michael Neill
• What you usually call your happiness is actually your chain: Your job, your home, your possessions… Anthony de Mello
• You must choose between your attachments and happiness. Adyashanti
• I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now. Peter McWilliams
• Happiness is living without expectations. Peter Cajander
• Most cultures understand happiness to mean, ‘You get what you want so you are happy!’ But that’s not happiness. That’s a thrill… that’s getting what you want. But thrills, fun and pleasure are NOT happiness. What are they? They’re thrills, they’re fun, they’re pleasure…they are not happiness. Happiness is a state of non-attachment. Anthony De Mello
• To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. Bertrand Russell
• Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little. Cheng Yen
• Non-attachment,  Letting go

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Happiness is letting go of excessive desires

• If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. Epicurus
• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. Carl Sandburg
• I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. John Stuart Mill
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Happiness is letting go of excessive expectations

• Happiness equals reality minus expectations. Tom Magliozzi
• My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. Michael J. Fox
• Happiness is living without expectations. Peter Cajander
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You can’t know happiness without also knowing sadness

• If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow. John Gray
• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Carl Jung
• I do believe that if you haven’t learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness. Nana Mouskouri
• The truth is that in order for you to experience true happiness in your life, you must experience sadness. It’s required. Without sadness, we really can’t even understand what happiness is. Karl Moore
• You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. Jonathan Safran Foer
• How would you know what happy is if you’ve never been otherwise? Malcolm Forbes
• A lifetime of happiness: no man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. George Bernard Shaw
• You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes”. Lauren Oliver
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Happiness is the truest measure of success

• Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws. Paramahansa Yogananda
• The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one. Sir Henry Newbolt
• Varied are the ideas of what constitutes “success,” e.g. money, position, power, achievement, honours, and the like. But these are not open to every man-nor do they bring what is real success, namely, happiness. Sir Robert Baden- Powell
• Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. Dale Carnegie
• Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. Deepak Chopra
• The standard of success in life isn’t the things. It isn’t the money or the stuff. It is absolutely the amount of joy that you feel. Abraham-Hicks
• Inner success is the ongoing experience of love, happiness, fulfilment and well-being… the experience of joy in your everyday life. Michael Neill
• The only true measure of success is happiness. Alan Cohen
• Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes.  The big ones come too infrequently.  And if you don’t collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don’t really mean anything.  Norman Lear
• Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. ‘Brother’ David Gardner
• In spiritual terms, success is the expansion of happiness. Deepak Chopra
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Happiness brings success

• Happiness causes success more than success causes happiness. Scott Raymond Adams
• By pursuing only success that will be all we find but pursue happiness and we also find success. Anna Infante
• 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
• This may be because happy people frequently experience positive moods and these positive moods prompt them to be more likely to work actively toward new goals and build new resources. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• Happy people produce. Bored people consume. Stephen Richards
• We become more successful when we are happier and more positive. Shawn Achor
• Happiness is the new productivity. Vishen Lakhiani
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Money and possessions don’t ensure happiness

• …there’s nothing inherently wrong with the desires of the Wanting Mind—it’s just that we are doomed to disappointment when we think they’ll bring any kind of lasting fulfillment. Brent Kessel
• Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. François de La Rochefoucald
• Can wealth give happiness? Look around and see, what gay distress! What splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more. Andrew Young
• Don’t confuse comfort with happiness. Jackson Brown Jr.
• Happiness doesn’t depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel towards what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. D. Hoard
• Happy is harder than money. Anyone who thinks money will make them happy, doesn’t have money. David Geffen
• He who is happy is rich, but it does not follow that he who is rich is happy. Sir Robert Baden- Powell
• If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Lao Tzu
• In short, money may not buy happiness, but happiness may help you get rich. Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
• It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. Thomas Jefferson
• Lasting happiness cannot be gained through consumption. Happiness requires active participation in what we value. To do things well, enjoy them, and take pride in what we have done — these fertilize happiness. Richard Koch
• Materialists are generally less satisfied with their lives than folks who highly value love, friendships, and other worthwhile pursuits. It is generally good for your happiness to have money, but toxic to your happiness to want money too much. A high income can help happiness but is no sure path to it. Ed Diener &Robert Biswas- Diener
• Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money. Arthur Schopenhauer
• Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness. Henrik Ibsen
• Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. . . . The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. Benjamin Franklin
• Money—beyond the bare minimum necessary for food and shelter (and I am not talking caviar and castles)—is nothing more than a means to an end. Yet so often we confuse means with ends and sacrifice happiness (end) for money (means). Tal Ben- Shahar
• One of life’s great misconceptions is the belief if I get what I want, I’ll be happy. Years of research, and your own experience if you look at it carefully, will tell you that’s not so:  if you get what you want you will quickly get used to it and want something else instead.  But we have a hard time remembering this.  Advertising and the media play into these desires, telling us we can be happy if we just buy the right things, wear the right clothes, get the latest home entertainment or kitchen gadget.  Richard O’Connor
• One of the great obstacles to attaining happiness is that most of our beliefs about what will make us happy are in fact erroneous. Sonja Lyubomirsky
• The desire to have, to acquire and possess, is in principle insatiable, and rarely generates the sense of fulfillment and happiness it promises. Tom Morris
• The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty- stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. George Bernard Shaw
• There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life. Arthur Schopenhauer
• Though money cannot acquire your happiness, it does not mean that both money and happiness cannot exist together. Stephen Richards
• We’re constantly going after the next “thing” that we think is going to make us happy—whether that’s the new car or new house or new spouse or whatever—forgetting the fact that happiness is an inside game! Brian Johnson
• You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy. Eric Hoffer
• You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character. Richelle E. Goodrich
• We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are…Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself. J. Baughan
• Materialism,  Consumerism,  Live rich rather than die rich

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Happiness comes from knowing what you can control and what you can’t

• Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can’t control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible. Epictetus
• Know what you can control

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Happiness comes from having a fulfilling spiritual life

• I believe the root of all happiness on this earth to lie in the realization of a spiritual life with a consciousness of something wider than materialism; in the capacity to live in a world that makes you unselfish because you are not overanxious about your own comic fallibilities; that gives you tranquility without complacency because you believe in something so much larger than yourself. Sir Hugh Walpole
• By altering the neurochemistry of the brain, spiritual practices bestow a sense of peace, happiness, and security, while decreasing symptoms of anxiety, depression and stress. Andrew Newberg
• If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.  Paramahansa Yogananda
• It is in the balancing of your spirituality with your humanity that you will find immeasurable happiness, success, good health, and love. Steve Maraboli
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Happiness comes from memories – and is often recognised in hindsight

• On the highway of life, we most often recognize happiness out of the rear-view mirror. Frank Tyger
• Happiness isn’t something you experience, it’s something you remember. Oscar Levant
• Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. Booth Tarkington
• Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember. Oscar Levant
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More foundation stones of happiness

• The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. Allan K. Chalmers
• Five Rules for Happiness. 1. If you like something, enjoy it. 2. If you don’t like something, avoid it. 3. If you don’t like something and can’t avoid it, change it. 4. If you can’t or choose not to avoid or change something you don’t like, then accept it. 5. You accept something by changing your perception of it. Josè Silva and Burt Goldman
• The secret of happiness is this – let your interests be wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. Bertrand Russell
• Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. Maragret Jameson
• The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. Norman Vincent Peale
• There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness. Sir John Buchan
• It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson
• The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest. Robert Grudin
• They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. Tom Bodett
• Happy is the soul that has something to look backward to with pride, and something to look forward to with hope. Oliver G. Wilson
• I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness–good faith, good friends, and all the work I can possibly do. Anna Howard Shaw
• The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be. Leo Babauta
• I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends, and a wife and children to share life’s beauty with you. Kenfield Morley
• We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. It is born from letting go of what is unnecessary and knowing ourselves to be always at home. Sharon Salzberg
• Happiness comes from small improvements, not by getting somewhere once and for all. Being able to add on one room to your house is what makes you happy, not living in a palace. Warren Buffett
• Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it, as it is, is the only way of being happy. Jennie Jerome Churchill
• Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly, one- directionally, without regret or reservation. H. Sheldon
• Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. Linus Pauling
• The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy. Ben Stein

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Happiness is a by-product

• Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. Gretta Brooker Palmer
• Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. Samuel Levenson
• Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived. Eleanor Roosevelt
• Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. Benjamin Spock
• Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning. William S. Burroughs
• Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

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Barriers to happiness

• Complaining should happen infrequently; criticism and gossip, never… Most of the complaining we do is just a lot of “ear pollution” detrimental to our happiness and well-being. Will Bowen
• Too many people seem to be chasing the wrong things. Getting equipped to go faster down the wrong road has never been a recipe for human happiness. Tom Moris
• The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom. Arthur Schopenhauer
• Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We fail to see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in a belief that happiness should take a particular form. Thich Nhat Hanh
• Happiness is like a cloud. It’s beautiful, but if you stare at it too long it disappears. Sarah Mclachlan
• If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. Richard Bach
• As soon as we wish to be happier, we are no longer happy. Walter Landon

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Seven Keys to Health and Happiness

• Practice Silence – Wisdom is a state of emptiness, listening, and attentiveness.
• Learn from Nature – Every tree, every animal, every stone has a lesson to teach.
• Find and Honor Your Life Purpose – Your purpose is a gift from the Great Spirit.
• Respect Your Ancestors and Ancestry – All people have indigenous roots, and no culture has a monopoly on wisdom.
• Maintain Emotional Balance – Keep your emotions calm and cultivate humor
• Eat According to Your Genes – Follow the diet of our hunter-gatherer ancestors.
• Get Plenty of Exercise – Stand and move with dignity and breathe slowly.”
• Source:  Native Wisdom: Seven Keys to Health and Happiness (By Ken Cohen)

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Scientifically proven intentional activities that lead to happiness

• Expressing gratitude
• Cultivating optimism
• Avoiding overthinking and social comparison
• Practicing acts of kindness
• Nurturing social relationships
• Developing strategies for coping
• Learning to forgive
• Increasing flow experiences
• Savoring life’s joys
• Committing to your goals
• Practicing religion and spirituality
• Taking care of your body: meditation + physical activity
• Acting like a happy person
• Source: The How of Happiness (by Sonja Lyubomirsky)

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Happiness and money

• A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. Jane Austen
• Hoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop. Gertrude Stein
• Money can’t buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it. David Lee Roth
• Money can’t buy happiness but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable. Clare Booth Luce
• Money can’t buy happiness but neither can poverty. Leo Rosten
• Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer.
• Money can’t buy happiness, but it can help you look for it quicker, in a convertible.
• Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable. Clare Boothe Luce
• Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.
• Money can’t buy happiness, but neither can poverty. Leo Rosten
• Money can’t buy happiness; it can however rent it.
• Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. Spike Milligan
• Money can’t buy happiness – that’s why we have credit cards.
• Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer.
• Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with.
• Money doesn’t bring happiness, though it has been known to cause an occasional smile. Herb True
• Money doesn’t buy happiness but it allows you to rent it by the hour.
• Money doesn’t buy happiness; but happiness isn’t everything. Jean Seberg
• Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. Bill Vaughan
• Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort. Helen Gurley Brown
• People say that money is not the key to happiness but I always figured if you have enough money you can have a key made. Joan Rivers
• People who say that money can’t buy happiness just don’t know where to shop. Kathy Lette
• Real happiness is when you marry a girl for love and find out later she has money. Bob Monkhouse
• What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.  Henry Youngman
• Whoever opined “Money can’t buy you happiness” obviously had far too much of the stuff.” David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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Happiness is …

• Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket. Robert Orben
• Happiness is a warm puppy with an empty bladderHappiness is a warm puppy. Lucy van Pelt
• Happiness is an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
• Happiness is good health and a bad memory. Ingrid Bergman
• Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. George Burns
• Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. Ogden Nash
• Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. Bernard Meltzer
• Happiness is like coke – something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
• Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. Albert Schweitzer
• Happiness is the China shop; love is the bull. L. Mencken
• Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. Don Marquis
• Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. Johnny Carson
• Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.  Ambrose Bierce
• Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime and should be taken in small doses. Russell Baker
• Happiness? That’s nothing more than good health and a poor memory. Albert Schweitzer
• Happiness is finding two olives in your martini when you’re hungry. Johnny Carson

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Definitions

• Bachelor: A person who believes in life liberty and the happiness of pursuit.
• Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Ambrose Bierce
• Ecstasy: Happiness with its clothes off.
• Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce
• Husband: A man who lost his liberty in the pursuit of happiness.
• Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness. Mark Twain
• Temptation: Something which when resisted gives happiness and which when yielded to gives even greater happiness.
• Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. ‘Brother’ David Gardner
• The future is that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce

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More light-hearted quotes

• A man doesn’t know what happiness is until he’s married. By then it’s too late. Frank Sintara
• All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. John Gunther
• Are you so unobservant that you do not yet realize that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination? Mark Twain
• Be with someone that makes you happy- delete the ‘with’
• Calvin: That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria! Bill Watterson
• Don’t seek happiness. Happiness is like an orgasm. If you think about it too much, it goes away.  Tim Minchin
• Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment.
• Happiness does not light gently on my shoulder like a butterfly. She pounces on my lap, demanding that I scratch behind her ears.
• Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
• I know exactly what I want. Everything. Calm, peace, tranquility, freedom, fun, happiness. If I could make all that one word, I would – a many-syllabled word. Johnny Depp
• I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late. Max Kauffman
• I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness. Bill Watterson
• If life was a game, I’d have all the cheat codes to happiness. Matthew Van Zyl
• It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich. Alan Alda
• One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. William Feather
• One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. Rita Mae Brown
• Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. Oscar Wilde
• The only thing more important than your happiness is mine so get on it.
• There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. Vicki Baum
• There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. Ogden Nash
• Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. Norm Papernick
• To be stupid selfish and have good health are three requirements for happiness though if stupidity is lacking all is lost. Gustave Flaubert
• We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. George Bernard Shaw
• Whoever said you can’t buy happiness forgot about puppies. Gene Hill

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