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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

A person can either do something in order to be happy, or... a person can start the day by simply deciding to BE happy and the things that person will do will automatically reflect that.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

A psychologically healthy person can, in fact, be defined as someone whose desires actually produce happiness.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Are people the best judges of their own happiness, or outsiders? In defining happiness, should we think of entire lives or of shorter periods such as moments, days, or years? And to what extent are virtue and happiness linked?

Are you always trying to get somewhere other than where you are so that you can finally be happy? The truth is that all unhappiness is caused by denial of the present.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

Arrange photographs of nature scenes, animals and expressions of joy and love in your environment and let their energy radiate into your heart and provide you with their higher frequency.

Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.

As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

As long as we think our lives are not good enough (materially), we will not have happiness. As soon as we realize our lives are good enough, happiness immediately appears. That is the practice of contentment.

As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery. We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger and attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion, a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.

As humans, we are rarely anything more than children that have let the changes to the size and shape of our genitals convince us that there are more important things in life than wonder and happiness. we call the acceptence of this change 'growing up' and it makes us feel big and powerful in a world that would be no less mysterious to us than it was before if all of the fantasizing that we once used to explore the "unknown" quality of our reality had not become devoted almost exclusively to the notion that we are in control.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

As long as we continue to think we will be happy in the future, we will never be happy in the moment, and that is the same as saying that we will never be happy. If we think that our lives will be better when we get that better job or retire, stay or go, gain or lose weight, or when our children grow and leave or come back, we are putting off the happiness that there is in today.

A smile appears on the faces of most archaic figures, a happiness of expression seeming to transcend that of human beings.

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.

As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: 'What do I really need right now to be happy?' What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

As long as I don't end up hosting a skin care commercial with Cher, I'm happy.

As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what is happening, as long as we're always running from discomfort, we're going to be caught in a cycle of unhappiness and discomfort, and we will feel weaker and weaker. This way of seeing helps us develop inner strength. And what's especially encouraging is the view that inner strength is available to us at just the moment when we think that we've hit the bottom, when things are at their worst.

A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

As the great Confucius said, "The one who would be in constant happiness must frequently change." Flow. But we keep looking back, don't we? We cling to things in the past and cling to things in the present...Do you want to enjoy a symphony? Don't hold on to a few bars of the music. Don't hold on to a couple of notes. Let them pass, let them flow. The whole enjoyment of a symphony lies in your readiness to allow the notes to pass.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

Associate only with positive, focused people who you can learn from and who will not drain your valuable energy with uninspiring attitudes. By developing relationships with those committed to constant improvement and the pursuit of the best that life has to offer, you will have plenty of company on your path to the top of whatever mountain you seek to climb.

As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list.

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune.