The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life. Euripides
I don’t plan. I’m not a planner. I prefer to live in the moment and be free and to flow and to be happy. Naval Ravikant
The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it’s the small things that count. Jennifer Niven
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. Greg Anderson
If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self? Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. Christian Nestell Bovee
We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. Frederick Keonig
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. Bernard de Fontenelle
As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. Andrew Delbanco
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. Eric Hoffer
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. Doug Larson
How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now. Gerald Jampolsky
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate. Thornton Wilder
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. Robert Brault
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. Maxim Gorky
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. Carl Sandburg
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens. Douglas Jerrold
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment – a little makes the way of the best happiness. Friedrich Nietzsche
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. Walter Savage Landor
