Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit it's right here.
I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do the draughts are open and my chimney draws and I am happy.
I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.
My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Indeed man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy healthy and prosperous being and happiness health and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness it is necessary to have deserved it.
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth We are happy when we are growing.
Money has never made man happy nor will it there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy even if you're not part of their happiness.