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Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
Sep 18, 2025
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.
Whoever is happy will make others happy.
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
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.
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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.
I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
Every man has his secret sorrows.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.
It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)
And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
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