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Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.
Sep 10, 2025
A sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
Sitting in stillness has got to be the greatest asset I have in terms of attaining happiness.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.