Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
Benjamin Franklin
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting it to be so.
Edgar Allan Poe
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
John Locke
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand
To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all.
Mark Sullivan
No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.
Ayn Rand
I look on that man as happy who, when there is a question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it - every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
John Rockefeller
Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
John Galsworthy
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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How you feed your mind is every bit as critical to your happiness as how you feed your body.
Jeff Olson
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer
Your success and your happiness start with you.
Zig Ziglar
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you'll be a success.
Albert Schweitzer
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Freya Stark
Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Happiness is the natural experience of winning your own self-respect as well as the respect of others.
Denis Waitley
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Albert Einstein
Happiness is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal or goal.
Earl Nightingale
The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds.
Brian Tracy
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
William Channing
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man must search for what is right and let happiness come on its own.
Johann Pestalozzi
One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
All who would win joy must share it; happiness was born a twin.
Lord Byron
It is neither wealth, nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which gives happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Let him who would be happy for a day go to the barber; for a week, marry a wife; for a month, buy him a new horse; for a year, build him a new house; for all his lifetime, be an honest man.
Thomas Fuller
To be happy you must forget yourself. Learn benevolence; it is the only cure of a morbid temper.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.
Gretta Palmer
Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.
William Somerset Maugham
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish know not what is the real happiness of life.
Alexandre Dumas
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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
Alexandre Dumas
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Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run - in the long run, I say! - success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.
Viktor Frankl
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
Samuel Johnson
What people require for a good life – and many smart people have written books on this subject – are meaning and purpose. I personally have never met a self-centered person who was happy or content. The happy people I know are serving something greater than themselves – a cause, a religion or a family.
Charley Reese
To enjoy life, you don't need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren't as serious as you make them out to be.
Timothy Ferriss
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The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
James Burke
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Oscar Levant
I have an ideal life. I get to do what I want to do everyday. And money can't buy any more than that.
Warren Buffett
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton
With most people happiness is something that is always just a day off. But I have made it a rule never to put off being happy till to-morrow. Don't accept notes for happiness, because you'll find that when they're due they're never paid, but just renewed for another thirty days.
George Horace Lorimer
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Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity. You can only achieve happiness if you are too busy living your life to notice whether you are happy or not.
Frank Pittman
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