Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting it to be so. Edgar Allan Poe

• attitude
• happiness
• expectation
• optimism

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

• mind
• happiness
• health

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Alfred Lord Tennyson

• desire
• happiness
• passion

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. Ayn Rand

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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

• work
• happiness
• success
• job

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy. Ayn Rand

• happiness
• power

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

• purpose
• work
• happiness
• success

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

• happiness
• enthusiasm

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

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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

• happiness
• talent

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

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• health

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

• happiness
• wisdom
• self reliance

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• relationships
• home

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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

• happiness
• reading
• diet

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. James Oppenheim

• happiness
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. Albert Schweitzer

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Your success and your happiness start with you. Zig Ziglar

• happiness
• success
• responsibility

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

• happiness
• success
• passion

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso

• happiness
• compassion

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark

• integrity
• happiness
• priorities
• values

Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli

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• happiness

Happiness is the natural experience of winning your own self-respect as well as the respect of others. Denis Waitley

• happiness
• self respect

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

• happiness
• money
• accomplishment

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. Albert Einstein

• happiness
• goals

Happiness is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal or goal. Earl Nightingale

• happiness
• goals

The greatest enemies of success and happiness are negative emotions of all kinds. Brian Tracy

• happiness
• success
• emotion

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. William Channing

• happiness
• government

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Carl Jung

• happiness
• sadness

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• happiness

Man must search for what is right and let happiness come on its own. Johann Pestalozzi

• happiness
• principle

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

• happiness
• service

All who would win joy must share it; happiness was born a twin. Lord Byron

• happiness
• joy

It is neither wealth, nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation which gives happiness. Thomas Jefferson

• work
• happiness
• wealth

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

• integrity
• happiness
• honesty

To be happy you must forget yourself. Learn benevolence; it is the only cure of a morbid temper. Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

• happiness
• anger

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. Gretta Palmer

• happiness
• service

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

• purpose
• happiness
• duty

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.

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• service

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish know not what is the real happiness of life. Alexandre Dumas

• adversity
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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

• happiness
• sadness
• perspective
• joy

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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

• happiness
• contentment
• stress

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

• purpose
• happiness
• success

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

• happiness
• contentment

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

• purpose
• happiness

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

• happiness
• simplicity
• contentment

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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

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. Oscar Levant

• happiness
• memories

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

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Margaret Lee Runbeck

• happiness

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. Thomas Merton

• happiness

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

• action
• happiness

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life. John Lennon

• happiness
• life

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Mary Shelley

• happiness
• evil

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Guillaume Apollinaire

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Happiness has more to do with where you're heading than where you are. Scott Adams

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Happiness is the natural state for most people whenever they feel healthy, have flexible schedules, and expect the future to be good. Scott Adams

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Recapping the happiness formula: Eat right. Exercise. Get enough sleep. Imagine an incredible future (even if you don't believe it). Work toward a flexible schedule. Do things you can steadily improve at. Help others (if you've already helped yourself). Reduce daily decisions to routine. Scott Adams

• happiness
• imagination
• exercise
• diet
• rest

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Happiness is not the whole aim of education. A man must be independent in his powers and character; able to work and assert his mastery over all that depends on him. Maria Montessori

• happiness
• education

There are two ways of being happy — we may either diminish our wants or augment our means — either will do, the result is the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means. If you are active and prosperous, or young, or in good health, it may be easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are wise, you will do both at the same time, young or old, rich or poor, sick or well; and if you are wise, you will do both in such a way as to augment the general happiness of society. Benjamin Franklin

• happiness
• service
• thrift

The secret of happiness is in knowing this: that we live by the law of expenditure. We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are. There are tides in the ocean of life, and what comes in depends on what goes out. The currents flow inward only where there is an outlet. Nature does not give to those who will not spend; her gifts are loaned to those who will use them. Empty your lungs and breathe. Run, climb, work, and laugh; the more you give out, the more you shall receive. Be exhausted, and you shall be fed. Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things, but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself. Raymond Baughan

• happiness
• life