“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” -Buddha
“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” -Albert Camus
“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 someone else.” -Chinese Proverb
“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.”
Ashley Montagu
“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; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.” -Stacey Charter
“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.” -Dale Carnegie
“It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” -Lucille Ball
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” -Epictetus
“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
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” -Thich Nhat Hanh
“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” -Eskimo Proverb
“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.” -Mary Stuart
“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.” -Seneca
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” -Joseph Addison
“Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.” -William H. Sheldon
“Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.” -Storm Jameson
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” -Mahatma Gandhi
“The only joy in the world is to begin.” -Cesare Pavese
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” -Oscar Wilde
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” -Marthe Troly-Curtin
“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon” -Winnie the Pooh
“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
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” -Confucius
“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.” -Anthony de Mello
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” -Dalai Lama
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” -Helen Keller
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” -Aristotle
“It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.” -Seneca
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” -Marcel Pagnol
“If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.” -Joseph Addison
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” -George Burns
“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
“The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.” -Epictetus
“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” -L.M. Montgomery
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” -James M. Barrie
“We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.” -Dalai Lama
“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.” -Dr. Robert Anthony
“The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.” -Aesop
“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.” -Seneca
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?” -Albert Einstein
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” -Bertrand Russell
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“Happiness is a myth we seek,
If manifested surely irks;
Like river speeding to the plain,
On its arrival slows and murks.
For man is happy only in
His aspiration to the heights;
When he attains his goal, he cools
And longs for other distant flights.” -Kahlil Gibran
“Happiness is a state of activity.” -Aristotle
“This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.” -Douglas Adams
“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
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” -Confucius
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
“Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.” -Charles Caleb Colton
"Happiness is inward and not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are." - Henry Van Dyke
"There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it." -Edith Wharton
“Happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.” -John M. Good
“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.” -John Stuart Mills
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." -Mahatma Gandhi
“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” -Henry Ward Beecher
"I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others." - Booker T. Washington
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.” — Anne Frank
“How to be happy when you are miserable. Plant Japanese poppies with cornflowers and mignonette, and bed out the petunias among the sweet-peas so that they shall scent each other. See the sweet-peas coming up. Drink very good tea out of a thin Worcester cup of a colour between apricot and pink . . .” — Rumer Godden
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
“How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.” – Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
“If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.” — Helen Keller
“The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others. — William Lyon Phelps
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