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To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.

To be at peace in any endeavour, we must release our need to control the outcome.

To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

To be busy is man's only happiness.

To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind.

To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.

To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion.

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.

To be happy, you must live in, but not for, the present moment.

To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness.

To be happy ourselves is a most effectual contribution to the happiness of others.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.

To be happy you have to know what you really want. After all, you can never have enough of what you didn't want in the first place. True happiness isn't a thing or a commodity, it's something you cultivate and share.

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.

To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

To eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness. Then if you're not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company.

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

To find happiness, it is not quite difficult thing. It is just enough to distinguish the blue of the sky from the pink of peach flowers which are opening out.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.

Together as a nation, we have the obligation to put sunshine into the hearts of our little ones. They are our precious possessions. They deserve what happiness life can offer.

To fill the hour──that is happiness.

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.

To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise... Let him take a course of chemistry, or a course of rope-dance, or a course of any thing to which he is inclined at the time. Let him contrive to have as many retreats for his mind as he can, as many things to which it can fly from itself.

To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.