“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
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“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”
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“That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
“Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.”
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
“It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.”
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”
“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”
“Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.”
“Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.”
“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.”
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
“Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.”
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
“You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.”
“I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.”
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.”
“The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.”
“Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.”
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
“Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.”
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”