Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. – Aristotle
True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller
If being happy is important to you, try this instead of regretting all you lack, celebrate all you’ve got. Brian Vaszily
Man wishes to be happy even when he lives so as to make happiness impossible. Augustine
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. William Saroyan
Being happy doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. Dale Carnegie
Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think. Dale Carnegie
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. Robert Oppenheimer
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 it. Dale Carnegie
Happiness is not the end of life; character is. Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness is the art of making a bouquet flowers within reach
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. Mark Twain
A man may be satisfied but not sanctified, contented but not converted, happy but not holy. John Blanchard
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. George Sand
You will never be happy if you continue to search for happiness. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Reinhold Niebuhr
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. James Matthew Barrie
A happy life depends on a good conscience. John Calvin
Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness. Christian Dior
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist. Oscar Wilde
Happiness is not the absence of problems; but the ability to deal with them. Jack Brown
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy or strong. The amount of work is the same. Francesca Reigler
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Treya Stark
The secret of happiness is renunciation. Andrew Carnegie
He who forgets the language of gratitude can never be on speaking terms with happiness. C. Neil Strait
Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek. Dalai Lama XIV
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier. Mother Teresa
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway. Mother Teresa
In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. Richard Bach
Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A happy man is he that knows the world and cares not for it. Joseph Hall
Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have. Doris Mortman
The sexiest curve on your body is your smile. Flaunt it! Anon.
Happiness comes in waves. It’ll find you again. Anon.
When you love what you have, you have everything you need. Anon.
Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like. Anon.
When it rains, look for rainbows. When it’s dark, look for stars. Anon.
The joyfulness of a man prolongeth his days. Proverbs 10:27
Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change. Friedrich Schiller
Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on. Carrie Underwood
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it. Andy Rooney
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better. Barbara Walters
A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness. – Albert Einstein
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. John Lennon
Sometimes life knocks you on your ass…get up, get up, get up!! Happiness is not the absence of problems. It’s the ability to deal with them. Steve Maraboli
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling, enduring, and accomplishing. George Sheehan
When a man has lost all happiness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. Sophocles
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln
Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. Denis Waitley
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. William James
There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons. Stephen Chbosky
If you start to think the problem is ‘out there,’ stop yourself. That thought is the problem. Stephen Covey
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. Anne Frank
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely. Louisa May Alcott
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
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens. Douglas Jerrold
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy. Robert Anthony
Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right. Sarah Addison
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln
The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may. Martin Luther King
The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself. Ellen DeGeneres
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
The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are. Goldie Hawn
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
True happiness ne’er entered at an eye; true happiness resides in things unseen. Edward Young
It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. Chuck Palahniuk
Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things. Walt Disney
Trying to be happy without giving to others is like trying to kiss alone. Brian Vaszily
Whether you are talking about education, career, or service, you are talking about life. And life must really have joy. It’s supposed to be fun. Barbara Bush
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There you go… let it all slide out. Unhappiness can’t stick in a person’s soul when it’s slick with tears. Shannon Hale
Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want. Alan Cohen
The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. William Morris
The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere. Mencius
Happiness does not depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, but on our attitude towards them. Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat – that’s the only moral they know. Dany Laferrière
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert A. Heinlein
Seek for happiness and you will never find it. Seek righteousness and you will discover you are happy. It will be there without your knowing it, without your seeking it. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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 to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. Carl Jung
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you say are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. Jonathan Safran Foer
If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows like a shadow. Buddha
It is a barren life that holds only happiness. Frances J. Roberts
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Margaret B. Runbeck
Some people cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go. Oscar Wilde
The pursuit of happiness… is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. Robert Henri
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values. Ayn Rand
Embrace the glorious mess that you are. Elizabeth Gilbert
If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present. Roy T. Bennett
The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are. Goldie Hawn
Life’s biggest moments seem really short but the great thing is the memory of that moment lasts forever. Jeremiah Say
Happiness is not having what you want. It is appreciating what you have. Jeremiah Say
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
Happiness is not a goal… it’s a by-product of a life well lived. Eleanor Roosevelt
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. Benjamin Franklin
The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy. It’s all that matters. Audrey Hepburn
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness. Ayn Rand
Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. Cynthia Nelms
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. Eric Hoffer
Wise men and women in every major culture have maintained that the secret of happiness is not in getting more but in wanting less. Philip Slater
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