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“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”

“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.”

“Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.”

“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 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.”

“Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.”

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”