"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life." - Leo Buscalgia

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise man grows it under his feet." - James Oppenheim

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." - Dalai Lama

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Possessions bring pleasure, not happiness. Happiness is found in the heart - Bing

"Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient." - Aristotle

"The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people." - Mark Twain"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis." - Margaret Bonnano

"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within." - Ramona Anderson

"Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing." - George Sheehan

"Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are." - John B. Sheerin

"Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have." - Anonymous

"Happiness lies in our own backyard, but it's probably well hidden by crabgrass." - Anonymous

"Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself." - Anonymous

"Happiness is an inside job." - William Arthur Ward

"Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses." - Dale Carnegie

"Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date." - Dale Carnegie

"It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable." - Roger L'Estrange

"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed." - Storm Jameson

"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience." - George Santayana

"Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead." - Charles M Schwab

"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 greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves." - Victor Hugo

"To live happily is an inward power of the soul." - Aristotle

"Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have." - Unknown

"It is easy to sit up and take notice, what is difficult is getting up and taking action." - Al Batt

"It's easier to go down a hill than up it, but the view is much better at the top." - Arnold Bennet

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Sir Winston Churchill

"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think." - Dale Carnegie

"It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts." - Addison Walker

"Fear is the darkroom where negatives develop." - Max Walker

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." - Albert Einstein

"Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there." - Will Smith

"We must become the change we want to see." – Gandhi

"Treat people as they are, and they will remain that way. Treat them as they are already what they can be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming." - Goethe

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Sometimes you've got to create what you want to be a part of." - Geri Weitzman

"The heart that loves is always young." - Greek Proverb

"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." - Albert Camus

"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

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?" - Lord Byron

"Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others." - Buddha

"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." - Carl Jung

"The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure." - Francoise de Motteville

"That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest." - Henry David Thoreau

"The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances." - Martha Washington

"Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and sits softly on your shoulder." - Anonymous

"Happiness is not given but exchanged."

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." - Margaret Lee Runbeck

"In life, we must not look to make ourselves happy, but instead, we must strive to love others and our own happiness will come of their satisfaction." - Paul Acquasanta

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle."

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory." - Cesare di Bonesana Beccaria

"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher." – Socrates

"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence." - Sydney Smith

"There is this difference between happiness and wisdom that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool." - C C Colton

The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour."

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the Way things turn out." Art Linkletter

"Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises." Leo Buscaglia

One of the functions of humor is to help all of us take ourselves less seriously. [The Urantia Book, p. 549, par. 2]
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all." - Socrates

"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself." ---Galileo"

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