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“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”

“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.”

“It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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