Happiness

"You've got to ask. Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful and neglected secret to success and happiness"

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

"My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him."

"Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same."

"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts."

"We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve."

"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness."

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

"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."

"Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination."

"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."

"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."

"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."

"It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember."

"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."

"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness."

"When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness."

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."

"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth."

"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."

"Man is the artificer of his own happiness."

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."

"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."

"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years."

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."

"The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star."

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."