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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Sep 10, 2025
You have to do your thing no matter what anyone says. It's your life.
If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.
Happiness is an inside job.
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
I'm scared that every girl I care for will find a better man and end up happier in the longrun
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.
If you want to be happy, you have to be happy on purpose. When you wake up, you can't just wait to see what kind of day you'll have. You have to decide what kind of day you'll have.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy
You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.
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.
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 create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
Thirty years ago, about 80% of a company's assets resided in its plant and equipment, with 20% in the knowledge of its people. Today, the reverse is true. The knowledge of our staff is our principal asset
The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.
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.
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.