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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
Sep 10, 2025
If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies obtained by the bloodstained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.
Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are ever filled by another and another generation; renewing the face of the earth, and the bosom of the deep, with endless successions of life and happiness.
Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop
When you love life, life will love you back.
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
Be so happy that when others look at you, they become happy too.
Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
I think happiness is what makes you pretty.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
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 is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.
True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
This Congress did more to uplift education, more to attack disease in this country and around the world, and more to conquer poverty than any other session in all American history, and what more worthy achievements could any person want to have? For it was the Congress that was more true than any other Congress to Thomas Jefferson's belief that: 'The care of human life and happiness is the first and only legitimate objective of good Government.'
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.
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
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.
We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
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.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.