Quotes on Being Happy

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

There's no such thing as good weather, or bad weather. There's just weather and your attitude towards it.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

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.

You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.