😊 Happiness

“Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.”

“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”

“And once the storm is over, you will not remember how you made it through. But one thing is certain: when you come out of the storm, you will not be the same person who walked in.”

“The attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain.”

“At some point in life the beauty of the world is enough.”

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”

“The brain is like velcro for negative experiences and teflon for positive ones.”

“What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.”

“Unquiet meals make ill digestions; therefore the happiness of a man's life is to be measured not by the great feasts, but by the frequency of his simple, pleasant repasts.”

“Discovering more joy does not save us from the inevitability of hardship and heartbreak. In fact, we may cry more easily, but we will laugh more easily too.”

“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”

“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”

“I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.”

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

“One is not born, but rather becomes, happy.”

“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind, the second is to be kind, and the third is to be kind.”

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”

“Comparison is the thief of joy.”

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”

“Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.”

“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty.”

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”

“Happiness is not a goal to reach. It is a signal you are living the right way.”

“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

“It is not what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”

“Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.”

“Laughter is the language of the soul.”

“The only constant in life is change.”

“To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.”

“Smile, breathe, and go slowly.”

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore.”

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”

“One joy scatters a hundred griefs.”

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”

“When you appreciate the good, the good appreciates.”

“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself has adopted the very best plan for living happily.”

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

“The peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.”

“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.”

“The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.”