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“They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.”

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

“There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”

“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”

“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.”

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”

“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.”

“I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.”

“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”

“Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.”

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”

“Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.”

“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.”

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

“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.”

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.”

“The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.”

“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.”

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”

“True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”

“Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.”

“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.”

“We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.”

“Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop”

“A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.”

“Love of colors bewilders the eye and it fails to see right. Love of harmonies bewitches the ear, and it loses its true hearing. Love of perfumes fills the head with dizziness. Love of flavors ruins the taste. Desires unsettle the heart until the original nature runs amok. These five are enemies of true life. Yet these are what men of discernment claim to live for. They are not what I live for. If this is life, then pigeons in a cage have found happiness!”

“When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.”

“I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.”