I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get
It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.
The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle. From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.
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.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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.
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.