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
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. – Benjamin Disraeli
Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you’re happy with a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken away from you. – Deepak Chopra
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise. – Colette
Between stimulus and response is a space. In this space lies our freedom to choose our response. In these choices lie our growth and our happiness. – Stephen Covey
Go ahead, want it all. Just learn to be happy before it arrives, or you may not notice when it does. – Mike Dooley
Happiness in not having a lot. Happiness is giving a lot. – Buddha
Happiness is a question of changing your troubles. – Colette
Happiness is being able to speak the truth without hurting anyone. – Federico Fellini
Happiness is kind of a cheap word. – Bob Dylan
Happiness is not an elusive bird, perched high near the ceiling, which, with the help of more or less complicated ladders, you have to work to catch. Happiness is an element, which, like air, is everywhere. – Jacques Henri Lartigue
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. – Aristotle
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Gandhi
I have decided to be happy because it’s good for my health. – Voltaire
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. Such an ethical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty … The ideals which have guided my way and time after time have given me the energy to face life, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. – Albert Einstein
I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter. – Paulo Coelho
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. I never lie down at night without reflecting that, young as I am, I may not live to see another day. Yet not one of all my acquaintances could say that in my company I am morose or disgruntled. For this blessing, I daily thank my creator. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. – Andrew Carnegie
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects. – Albert Einstein
In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. – Karl Reiland
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy. – Mother Teresa
It is simple to be happy, but it is difficult to be simple. – Rabindranath Tagore
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness. – Samuel Beckett
Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources. – Albert Einstein
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image because the image will be so much more powerful than he could ever be. – Marshall McLuhan
Praise, blame, gain, loss, pleasure, and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all. – Buddha
Some cause happiness wherever they go, others, whenever they go. – Oscar Wilde
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer
The most important thing for the conditioned mind is to be right. If you’re not happy and rich, there is a fair chance your mind is trying hard to be right, rather than be happy and rich. – T Harv Eker
The only ones of you who will be truly happy will be so because you have found a way to serve. – Albert Schweitzer
The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage – Thucydides
The way to find out about happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you are really happy – not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what is called following your bliss. – Joseph Campbell
There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. – Wayne Dyer
To find happiness, first, remove I for it is ego. Then remove want for it is desire. Then what you’re left with is happiness. – Buddha
To live happily is an inward power of the soul. – Aristotle
Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body. – George Carlin
We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. – W.B. Yeats
We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict. – Paul Claudel
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. – Gide
When somebody does something good, applaud. You will make two people happy. – Samuel Goldwyn
Wisdom is the chief element of happiness. – Sophocles