Quotes on Happiness

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

To see a world in a grain of sand_x000D_ And a heaven in a wild flower,_x000D_ Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,_x000D_ And eternity in an hour.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

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

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.