Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

It isn’t 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.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

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.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

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

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.

Sometimes I think all the trouble in the world is caused by men. If there were no men, women would always be happy. ~Carrie

We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

May we always be happy, and may our enemies know it!

Giving up the center must not here be regarded as illogical. Was happiness no happiness because it endured for just a short time? One cannot always be happy.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.

If you believe in what you’re doing, you’ll be successful.

Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.