It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. L.M. Montgomery
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. Mother Teresa
Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections. Bob Marley
Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson. Alan Cohen
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. Aristotle
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. Arthur Schopenhauer
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. Carl Sandburg
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Reinhold Niebuhr
Happiness is the default state. It’s what’s there when you remove the sense that something is missing in life. Naval Ravikant
Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life. Germaine Greer
There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time. C. JoyBell C.
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy. Robert Louis Stevenson
Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else. Nathaniel Branden
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? Yevgeny Zamyatin
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 a paradise in a few years. Bertrand Russell
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. Niccolo Machiavelli
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sometimes we don’t find the thing that will make us happy because we can’t give up the thing that was supposed to. Robert Brault
Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine. Henry Ward Beecher
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. Robert S. Lynd
To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it. Robert Brault
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. Aristotle
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Robert Frost
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. Bertrand Russell
