Quotes on Happiness

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being. As long as I am my mind, I am those cravings, those needs, wants, attachments, and aversions, and apart from them there is no "I" except as a mere possibility, an unfulfilled potential, a seed that has not yet sprouted.

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.