Quotes on Self Happiness

The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

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

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.