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

“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.”

“We know that we are happy when our mind is peaceful, and unhappy when it is not. It is therefore clear that our happiness depends upon our having a peaceful mind and not on good external conditions. Even if our external conditions are poor, if we maintain a peaceful mind all the time we shall always be happy.”

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

“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.”

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

“If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.”

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

“It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”

“Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.”

“Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.”

“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.”

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”

“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.”

“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

“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.”

“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 compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”

“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”

“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.”

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”

“Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.”

“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.”

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”

“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.”

“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.”