No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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

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 secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

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

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

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

It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

Just like fitness can be a choice, health can be a choice, nutrition can be a choice, and working hard and making money can be a choice, happiness can be a choice as well.

No crime is a means to an end. No crime can be rationalized.

If you’re smart, you should be able to figure out how to be happy. Otherwise, you’re not that smart.

Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.

Most smart people, over time, realize that possessions don’t make them happy.

Living happily with parents requires adjustments. That takes care of most demons of our minds.

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.

Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.

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

Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

… I’ll pray to God to give me strength and patience I’ll feel no pain, no vengeance, no regrets And I will learn to love again…myself, this time. … (Excerpted from My kind of resilience, chapter Resilience)

Gladness comes from God.

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

Maturity is knowing when and where we can show our attitude.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.

To me, peace is happiness at rest, and happiness is peace in motion. You can convert peace to happiness anytime you want.

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.

Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song.

Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.

Stop waiting for the right person to come into your life. Be the right person to come to someone’s life

Love Is An Excessive Sanity That Leads To The Madness That We Deserve.

The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to be free to choose a life that makes you happy.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT…Goodbye.

In All Forms Of Relationships, Friendship Is The Only One Facing The Battle Alone.

Love Is The Only One That Remains After Lovers Have Gone Separate Ways

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

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

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

It is in everybody’s interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because our interests are inextricably linked, we are compelled to accept ethics as the indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

Be like a very small joyous child, living gloriously in the ever present now, without a single worry or concern about even the next moment of time.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

If you’re not thinking about a negative thought, your vibration is going to raise to its natural positive place.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

The catch phrase for the day is ‘Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.’

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony–periods when the antithesis is in abeyance.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

The will of man is his happiness.

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

It is not only my laboratory and my place of work but also my home, so that on the 30th October I was able to share my happiness immediately with my students and collaborators and, at the same time, with my wife and family.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

Happiness is a thing of now.

I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

Happiness comes from living in the moment, this moment, now, right here. If you are in obscure states of mind, you won’t see what this moment is. You won’t realize its beauty.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

It takes a lot of courage to be happy (after the death of a spouse), but I’ve got courage, so I think I will be happy again.

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

Everything that I think that I need to do, is all in order to propel me to some place, that when I get there I think I will be happier. So, everything that I am doing, no matter what it is, all of my lists of rights and wrongs, are all about me getting to a manifestation, that I believe I will then be happier… So why don’t I just take the short cut and just be happy?

In 1970 I felt so lonely that I could not give; now I feel so joyful that giving seems easy. I hope that the day will come when the memory of my present joy will give me the strength to keep giving even when loneliness gnaws at my heart.

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

Life isn’t about wishing you were somewhere, or someone that you’re not. Life is about enjoying where you are, loving who you are and consistently improving both.

Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?