Quotes on Choosing Happiness

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

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

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

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.