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“Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.”

“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.”

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

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

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

“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.”

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

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”

“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.”

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel, it's not a destination.”

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”

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