What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful. - Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you. - Hafiz of Persia
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. – Barbara de Angelis
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. – George Santayana
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. – Andrew Carnegie
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. – Carl Jung
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. – Denis Waitley
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. – M. Scott Peck
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. – Helen Keller
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something completely great. – Willa Cather
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.- Mohandas K. Gandhi
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Norman MacEwan
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. - Martha Washington
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery. - Anne Frank
In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself.- Anonymous
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. - Franklin Roosevelt
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. - James M. Barrie
Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead. - Scottish Proverb
Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It’s a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don’t have. It’s so simple – yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend. - Anonymous
Happiness lies in our own backyard, but It’s probably well hidden by crabgrass. - Dell Crossword Puzzles
If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap. If you want happiness for a day – go fishing. If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime – help someone else. - Chinese Proverb
True happiness consists in making happy. - Bharavi’s Kiratarjuniya, Hindu
He who has not learned to share his blessings with others has not found the true path to enduring happiness. HAPPINESS comes from sharing one’s self and one’s blessings. All riches are multiplied by the simple process of sharing them where they may serve others. - Anonymous
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