For most of life, nothing wonderful happens.

If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are that you're not going to be very happy.

If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time.

If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.


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Always do what you want, and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind


You get more joy out of the giving to others, and should put a good deal of thought into the happiness you are able to give.


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It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives.

Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuos intoxicating party.
Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.


We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.


Man is fond of counting his troubles but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.




If you have nothing else to do, look about you and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve! It may make you wealthy, though it is more likely that it will make you happy.


People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.


Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

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The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.


Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.




Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.


Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.


Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable.


It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. .


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Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.


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


The essentials to happiness are something to love, something to do, and something to hope for.




At certain moments, always unforseen, I become happy... I look at the strangers near as if I had known them all my life... everything fills me with affection... It may be an hour before the mood passes, but lately I seem to understand that I enter upon it the moment I cease to hate.


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