Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
If you are striving to have more happiness in your life, it helps to guide your mind towards starting to recognize what are selfish motivations and what are constructive motivations.
Sugar brings happiness. Eating it once or twice a week in a dessert, that's what life is about. There is nothing wrong with it.
It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
If all we remember are good things, then happiness is our baseline, and there's no longer happiness. We need other feelings in order to appreciate others.
Sometimes people just need to be heard. They find happiness in sharing their thoughts.
The success of a film at the box office will ensure happiness to the entire unit, but individual awards are like vitamin shots that will help boost the morale of an actor.
I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.
I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that's not really what happiness is.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.
God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Everyone wants to be happy - people find happiness in different ways. While you want to pursue your career 100 percent, I think it is very hard to give 100 percent in something else. It's important to find this balance, and priorities change throughout life.
Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.
Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.
You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly.
Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.
Having been in the restaurant business, our job in the restaurant business is to be responsible for our customers' happiness. It's the nature of the hospitality business. You need to take care of people. You take care of customers above all others. Customers are your lifeblood.
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
The right to happiness is fundamental.
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.