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

“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.”

“Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.”

“If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.”

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”

“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.”

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

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”

“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.”

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

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

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

“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.”

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

“Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.”

“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”

“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.”

“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.”

“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.”

“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.”

“Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.”

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

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”

“Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.”

“I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.”

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

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

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

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

“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.”