Quotes on Simple Happiness

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

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

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

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

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

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.