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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.

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.

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.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

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

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

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one’s time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but 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.

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

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

You will find only what you bring in.

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook, peace of mind and inner happiness

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you… happiness is your natural state.

You don’t find happiness, you make happiness.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

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.

I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

Many of us may have watched the waves at sea. They rise, then fall, then rise again, then fall again… and this cycle continues endlessly. It is the same with our experience of the world and its objects and relationships. We may find happiness, but this happiness will soon turn to sorrow. The sorrow that we feel will subsequently turn back to happiness but this oscillation continues endlessly. In order to maintain inner balance, we need to find peace within instead of depending on the external world.

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

Find happiness in making others happy.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That’s a rather shocking responsibility. That we’re responsible for our own happiness. It’s not those around us.

Consider whether fulfillment of the goal you have chosen will constitute success. What is success? If you possess health and wealth, but have trouble with everybody (including yourself), yours is not a successful life. Existence becomes futile if you cannot find happiness. When wealth is lost, you have lost a little; when health is lost, you have lost something of more consequence; but when peace of mind is lost, you have lost the highest treasure.