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If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
Sep 10, 2025
If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.
One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.
Don't Worry Be Happy
I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young.
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Stop giving someone else the job of making you happy.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness.
The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.
I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.
People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.
False. When things change, I will be happy. True. When I am happy, things will change.
Enjoy your life. No curse hangs over you, nor did it ever. No devil chases after your soul. Sing and dance and be merry.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy
The happiest people I've ever met, regardless of their profession, their social standing, or their economic status, are people that are fully engaged in the world around them. The most fulfilled people are the ones who get up every morning and stand for something larger than themselves. They are the people who care about others, who will extend a helping hand to someone in need or will speak up about an injustice when they see it.
You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.
Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.
The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.
I think happiness is what makes you pretty.
No matter your obstacles, live a happy life.
Being happy is a very personal thing-and it really has nothing to do with anyone else.
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.
Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.