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Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking; just as ill health indicates a bad regimen.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Until you take ownership for your life, you will always be chasing happiness.

Use the freest goods for happiness... The stars cost nothing. Nature costs nothing. Your inner life costs nothing. God costs nothing. And yet they are all infinitely precious.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Varied are the ideas of what constitutes "success," e.g. money, position, power, achievement, honours, and the like. But these are not open to every man-nor do they bring what is real success, namely, happiness.

Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness into your life.

Walk so that your footprints bear only the marks of peaceful joy and complete freedom. To do this you have to learn to let go. Let go of your sorrows, let go of your worries. That is the secret of walking meditation.

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.

We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you're doing is in the doing of it. It's not what you're gonna get in the end - it's not the final curtain - it's really in the doing it, and loving what you're doing.

We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

We are all gifted. That is our inheritance.

we are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves.

Unless you choose to take action on what you want, nothing is ever going to come out of it.

Unless you are happy with yourself, you will not be happy.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centers in the mind.

Victory is not the absence of problems, it is the presence of power.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

We all have direct experience with things that do or don't make us happy, we all have friends, therapists, cabdrivers, and talk-show hosts who tell us about things that will or won't make us happy, and yet, despite all this practice and all this coaching, our search for happiness often culminates in a stinky mess. We expect the next car, the next house, or the next promotion to make us happy even though the last ones didn't and even though others keep telling us that the next ones won't.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

We are miracles. So don't deny yourself the miracle of happiness.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

We are trusted, loved and wanted in direct proportion to how we trust, love and want those with whom we come in contact

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

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.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.

We ask for happiness but what we get is unhappiness. We all put our efforts into trying to be happy but we make a fundamental mistake: happiness is not related to the effort, happiness is related to not asking for it.

We cannot make bargains for blisses, / Nor catch them like fishes in nets; / And sometimes the thing our life misses, / Helps more than the thing which it gets.

We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.

We can laugh from either joy or happiness, but we weep only from grief or joy...Without the pain of farewell, there is no joy in reunion...without the pain of captivity, we don't experience the joy of freedom.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion are in out hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.

We cannot be happy until we can love ourselves without egotism and our friends without tyranny.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.