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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own - Robert A. Heinlein
Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. -Abraham Lincoln
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. -Marthe Troly-Curtin
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -Ernest Hemingway
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony -Mahatma Gandhi
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life -Albert Camus
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. -Dalai Lama XIV
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. -John Lennon
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - J.R.R. Tolkien
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
Happiness is a warm puppy. -Charles M. Schulz
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. -Jonathan Safran Foer
No medicine cures what happiness cannot. -Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. -George Burns
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -Marcel Proust
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. -Chuck Palahniuk
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present. -Roy T. Bennett
Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands. -Roy T. Bennet
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. -Bertrand Russell
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. -Mark Twain
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy. -Sylvia Plath
Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get - W. P. Kinsella
Happiness is only real when shared. -Jon Krakauer
Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny. - Steve Maraboli
Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy. - Roy T. Bennett
The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you. -Bette Midler
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness. - Ayn Rand
Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world. -Orhan Pamuk
Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity. -Roy T. Bennett,
Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness. -Steve Maraboli
Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life. -Roy T. Bennett
When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies -J.M. Barrie
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. -Alexandre Dumas
I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. -Jane Austen
Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
ll happiness depends on courage and work. -Honoré de Balzac
ll happiness depends on courage and work. -Honoré de Balzac
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now. - Roy T. Bennett
I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it. -I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. -Friedrich Nietzsche
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - George Washington Burnap
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon. -Edward Lear
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. -Charlotte Bronte
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. - Rita Mae Brown
The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life. -Roy T. Bennett,
“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. -Nikos Kazantzakis
Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. -Roy T. Bennett
Happiness depends upon ourselves. -Aristotle
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. - Robert Frost
There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time. -C. JoyBell C
I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone - Daniel Keyes
Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy. -Roy T. Bennett
Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration. -Pat Conroy
The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage. - Carrie Jones
Whoever is happy will make others happy. -Anne Frank
Laughter is poison to fear. - George R.R. Martin
I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye. - Steve Maraboli
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness. -Drew Barrymore
A smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place. When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life. -Roy T. Bennett,
A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations. -Jodi Picoult
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind - Daphne Du Maurier
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you. - Karl Lagerfeld
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely. -Louisa May Alcott
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. -William James
Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes. -Katherine Mansfield
A thing of beauty is a joy forever. -John Keats
I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world. I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself. -Sri Chinmoy
Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure -Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right - Sarah Addison Allen
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
Nothing makes a person happier than having a happy heart. -Roy T. Bennett
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. -Dalai Lama XIV
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. - Anne Frank
Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. -Joanne Harris
There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness. -Stendhal
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain. - Thomas Hardy
I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes. - Jeremy Aldana
You must be the best judge of your own happiness. -Jane Austen
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. -Aldous Huxley
Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you. -Hafez
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. - Thich Nhat Hanh
To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless. -Julian Barnes
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet. -James Oppenheim
When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life. -Roy T. Bennett
Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling -Tony DeLiso, Legacy
“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. - Michael J. Fox
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul. -Thomas Mann
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Happiness is a state of activity. -Aristotle
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside. -Peter Deunov
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside. - Sri Ramana Maharshi
People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t -Stephen Fry
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price. -Orson Scott Card
The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to be free to choose a life that makes you happy. -Roy T. Bennett
The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star. - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
