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If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.
Sep 10, 2025
The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you.
The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet.
If you are looking for happiness in this world (dunya), you're in the wrong place.
One minute I'm just another rabbit and happy about it, next minute *whazaam*, I'm thinking. That's a major drawback if you're looking for happiness as a rabbit, let me tell you. You want grass and sex, not thoughts like 'What's it all about, when you get right down to it?'
Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.
It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
I kept looking for happiness, and then I realized: This is it. It's a moment, and it comes, and it goes, and it'll come back again. I yearn for things, but at the same time I'm just peaceful.
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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.
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
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.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Remember that happiness is a way of travel, it's not a destination.
Happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
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.
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.