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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
Sep 10, 2025
Act the way you WANT to feel.
Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.
To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
You can only have bliss if you don't chase it.
I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.
When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.
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.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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.
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.
False. When things change, I will be happy. True. When I am happy, things will change.
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.
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.
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.
No matter your obstacles, live a happy life.
Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.
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.
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
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.
Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I pour my heart and soul out to create, into the abyss of tragedy.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.