I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. Kanye West
Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness. Karen Salmansohn
The happiness of society is the end of government. John Adams
It gets better: there's a light at the end of the tunnel. It may take one day, it may take ten years. But one day, you will find happiness if you manifest it. Put that energy out, and it'll come back. Lil Xan
They say people live to be happy. If you actually think about what happiness is, it's nothing much. When you get to eat ramen after feeling really, really hungry, that's happiness. RM
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick. P. T. Barnum
Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping. Gertrude Stein
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. John Gunther
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. Dale Carnegie
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps. Sharon Draper
Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is! Dita Von Teese
The secret of happiness is something to do. John Burroughs
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Buddha
True happiness 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. Joseph Addison
The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment. Marie Kondo
Happiness is the natural flower of duty. Phillips Brooks
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. Thomas Jefferson
Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I've learned, that's the path to happiness. Lesley Ann Warren
It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later. George Foreman
A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. James E. Faust
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
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. Kevyn Aucoin
Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. Theodore Isaac Rubin
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. Ausonius
A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose. Tom Wilson
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. Euripides
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you. Joel Osteen
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not. Valerie Bertinelli
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha
Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man. Robert Baden-Powell
The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions. Kelsang Gyatso
It gets better: there's a light at the end of the tunnel. It may take one day, it may take ten years. But one day, you will find happiness if you manifest it. Put that energy out, and it'll come back. Lil Xan
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.' Sandra Bullock
I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately. Karan Johar
Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature. Dennis Prager
Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice. Beyonce Knowles
Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read. Michael A. Stackpole
I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness amid the heartbreak. Adrienne C. Moore
Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness. Herbert Hoover
My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile. Jennifer Garner
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress. Alana Stewart
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. C. S. Lewis
Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father. Barry Sanders
Independence is happiness. Susan B. Anthony
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. William Butler Yeats
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness. Harold Kushner
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Helen Keller
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. Andrea Hirata
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. George Burns
I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude. Brene Brown
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. Thomas Merton
The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success. Adam Grant
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others. Robert Green Ingersoll
Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith. Kareena Kapoor Khan
The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage. Thucydides
The most simple things can bring the most happiness. Izabella Scorupco
For me, fitness is not just about hitting the gym; it is also about an inner happiness and an overall well-being. Rakul Preet Singh
Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness. Dionne Warwick
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. William Morris
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Dalai Lama
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. Jim Rohn
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. George Sand
I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness. Nana Mouskouri
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. Frederick Douglass
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln
There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way. Thich Nhat Hanh
The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion. Richard Gere
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Mary Wollstonecraft
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there. Billy Graham
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. Robert Baden-Powell
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness? Jonathan Safran Foer
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps. Ellen Pompeo
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. Bertrand Russell
Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates. Sarah McLachlan
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. Democritus
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Ambrose Bierce
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