1. The foolish person seeks happiness in the distance, the wise person grows it under his feet. - James Oppenheim
2. If you want to cheer yourself up, try cheering someone else up. – Unknown
3. The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. - F. H. Bradley
4. Greater than the gold of kings are the memories of happy things. – Unknown
5. Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other. - Joseph Addison
6. Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. - Sir James Matthew Barrie
7. The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do. - Sir James Matthew Barrie
8. Don’t Worry. Be Happy.- Bobby McFerrin
9. Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln
10. Happiness is not what you have, but what you are. - Winston K. Pendleton
11. Everything you need for a happy life is within yourself. – Unknown
12. He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his own home. – Goethe
13. It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness. - Thomas Jefferson
14. This is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great. - Willa Cather
15. That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. - Ovid
16. So of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more it remains. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
17. Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. - Albert Schweitzer
19. Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. - Margaret Lee Runbeck
20. The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. - Unknown
21. The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin
22. The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. - Martha Washington
23. Happiness is the only thing one should ever be resigned to. - Alfred Capus
24. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. - Chinese Proverb
25. Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. - Burton Hillis
26. I have observed the happiest among you refuse to whine. - Robert Wilkes
27. Happiness is like a stampede. Whether you're happy depends not just on your own actions and behaviors and thoughts, but on those of people you don't even know. - Nicholas Chistakis
28. Save a little happiness for tomorrow and don’t forget to use it first thing in the morning. - Unknown
29. Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison
30. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes. – Dalai Lama
31. It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis. - Margaret Bonano
32. The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today. - Charles W. Eliot
33. I'm not happy. I'm cheerful. There's a difference. A happy woman has no cares at all. A cheerful woman has cares but has learned how to deal with them. - Beverly Sills
34. Be happy. It's one way of being wise. - Colette
35. The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so. - David Hume
36. Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind. - Alice Meynell
37. Happy the human mind can bear plenty of reality, but not too much intermittent gloom. - Margaret Drabble
38. Happiness walks on busy feet. - Kitte Turmell
39. Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results. - Dennis Wholey
40. A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. - Bernard de Fontenelle
41. Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. - Kay Stott
42. What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has. - Arthur Schopenhauer
43. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. - Buddha
44. Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. - Fyodor Dostoevsky
45. May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have. - Richard Paul Evans
46. One does not achieve happiness through the pursuit of pleasure or entertainment, but through virtuous endeavours. - Aristole
47. The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness. - Michel de Montaigne
48. Happiness doesn't mean everything in life is perfect. It means you 'Choose' to look beyond life's imperfections! - Unknown
49. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success! - Herman Cain
50. If you want to be happy, put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind. - Unknown
51. It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. - Denis Waitley
52. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
53. Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections. - Unknown
54. Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections. - Unknown
55. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up. - Mark Twain
56. The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good. - Ruth Benedict
57. The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved. - Victor Hugo
58. If you count all your assets you always show a profit. - Robert Quillen
59. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. - Helen Keller
60. Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. - Bertolt Brecht
61. Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. - Fyodor Dostoevsky
62. It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. - Margaret Bonnano
63. I know well that happiness is in little things. - John Ruskin
64. Wherever you go, whatever the weather, always bring your own sunshine. - Anthony J. D'angelo
65. A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. – St. Francis of Assisi
66. Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. - Jacques Prèvert
67. Every one wants happiness, no one wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain. - Unknown
68. The real secret of happiness is simply this: to be willing to live and let live, and to know very clearly in one's own mind that the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person. - Galen Starr Ross
69. Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps. - Chinese Proverb
70. The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. - William James
71. The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness. - Montaigne
72. Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you. - Hafiz of Persia
73. The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past. -Andre Maurois
74. For every minute you are angry or in conflict... you lose sixty seconds of happiness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
75. You're going to have to learn to fake cheerfulness. Believe it or not eventually that effort will pay off: you'll actually start feeling happier. - Jean Bach
76. It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy. - Unknown
77. A pessimist is a man who is never happy unless he is miserable: even then he is not pleased. - Unknown
78. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. - Hugh Downs
79. A well spent day brings happy sleep. - Leonardo Da Vinci
80. The place to be happy is here, the time to be happy is now. - Robert Ingersoll
81. To be happy, drop the words 'if only,' and substitute instead the words 'next time.' - Dr. Smiley Blanton
82. Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. - Benjamin Disraeli
83. The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin
84. He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. - Johann von Goethe
85. Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking. - H. W. Byles
86. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. -Mohandas K. Gandhi
87. Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. -Hosea Ballou
88. One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. - Archibald Rutledge
89. No joy is complete unless it is shared. - Unknown
90. True happiness is not made in getting something. True happiness is becoming something. This can be done by being committed to lofty goals. We cannot become something without commitment. - Ashton
91. Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. - Cynthia Nelms
92. Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. - Swedish proverb
93. Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. – Greg Anderson
94. Happiness doesn’t depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. - William Dempster Hoard
95. Some pursue happiness - others create it. - Unknown
96. Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. - John B. Shereen
97. He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow. - Unknown
98. Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest. - Sri Chinmoy
99. All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. - Charles Kingsley
100. Do not look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not be cheated out of it. - Henry Ward Beecher
101. I am happy and content because I think I am. - Alain-Rene Lesage
102. Happiness is a decision. - Marie Osmond
103. Some pursue happiness, others create it. - Unknown
104. It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. - Thomas Paine
105. Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. So start each day by thinking of all the things you have to be thankful for. Your future will depend very largely on the thoughts you think today. So think thoughts of hope and confidence and love and success. - Dale Carnegie
106. Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it. - Unknown
107. Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day. - Benjamin Franklin
108. 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
109. Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. - L.J. Cardinal Suenens
110. There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. - Freya Stark
111. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. - Margaret Lee Runbeck
112. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. - William Cowper
113. True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. - Helen Keller
114. 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
115. We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. - Frederick Keonig
116. Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. - Helen Keller
117. The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. - Norman Vincent Peale
118. 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. - Dale Carnegie
119. Find something that you love. Something that gets you so excited you can't wait to get out of bed in the morning. Forget about money. Be happy. - Chris Gardner
120. When you're Happy for No Reason, you bring happiness to your outer experiences rather than trying to extract happiness from them. You don't need to manipulate the world around you to try to make yourself happy. You live from happiness, rather than for happiness. - Marci Shimoff
121. Most people keep waiting on happiness, putting off happiness until they're successful or until they achieve some goal, which means we limit both happiness and success. That formula doesn't work. - Shawn Achor
122. Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential. - Shawn Achor
123. 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. - Albert Schweitzer
123. A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. - William Arthur Ward
124. Happiness and self-confidence come naturally when you feel yourself moving and progressing toward becoming the very best person you can possibly be. - Brian Tracy
125. Happiness is in action, and every power is intended for action; human happiness, therefore, can only be complete as all the powers have their full and legitimate play. - David Thomas
126. Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us. - W.N. Rieger
127. It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. - Denis Waitley
128. You will be happier if you will give people a bit of your heart rather than a piece of your mind. - Unknown
129. Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. - Bertolt Brecht
130. Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. - Earl Nightingale
131. The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised. - Norman Vincent Peale
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