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.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
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.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.