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

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

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

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

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.

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

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

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

Happiness doesn’t depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.

Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.

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

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Don’t cry upon your losses
Don’t measure today with tomorrows
Don’t trust to passed and coming day
Believe in now – and be happy today.

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.

If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.

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.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Real happiness is when you are happy for no reason at all; you are simply being.

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

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

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

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

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.