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All I can say is that you make me... you make me into someone I couldn't even imagine. You make me happy, even when you're awful. I would rather be with you - even the you that you seem to think is diminished - than with anyone else in the world.
Sep 18, 2025
The simplest way to be happy is to do good.
But you make me happy. It's living up to being happy that's the difficult part.
Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
You are my sunshine my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are grey. You'll never know dear how much I love you. Please don't take my sunshine away.
Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
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.
Happiness is a state of activity.
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Even when I'm old and grey, I won't be able to play it, but I'll still love the game.
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
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.
We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.
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.
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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.
The only joy in the world is to begin.
Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Happiness is a myth we seek, If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks. For man is happy only in His aspiration to the heights; When he attains his goal, he cools And longs for other distant flights.
Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, 'I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.' That is why dogs make such a hit. They are so glad to see us that they almost jump out of their skins. So, naturally, we are glad to see them.
Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.
Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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.
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.
No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)
And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
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.
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.