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“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”

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

“It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.”

“All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.”

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

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.”

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

“It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.”

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”

“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.”

“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.”

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

“The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.”

“Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.”

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

“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”

“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”

“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.”

“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”

“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”

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

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.”

“This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.”

“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.”

“There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer: no disease that love will not heal: no door that enough love will not open...It makes no difference how deep set the trouble: how hopeless the outlook: how muddled the tangle: how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.”

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

“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.”

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”