Quotes on Happiness

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

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.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

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.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

As long as we think our lives are not good enough (materially), we will not have happiness. As soon as we realize our lives are good enough, happiness immediately appears. That is the practice of contentment.

Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

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

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.

If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.