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

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

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

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.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

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

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

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

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.

You may think that if someone else doesn’t change, you can never be happy. But if you change, you can be happy no matter what.

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.

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

When malice has reason on its side, it looks forth bravely, and displays that reason in all its luster. When austerity and self-denial have not realized true happiness, and the soul returns to the dictates of nature, the reaction is fearfully extravagant.

There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young, and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting.

The best things in life aren’t things.

True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you’re having is immediate gratification pleasure, which is fleeting and doesn’t grow you as a person.

Good food is the basis of true happiness

If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

If laying aside all worldly Greatness and Vain-Glory, I should be ask’d where I thought it was most probable that Men might enjoy true Happiness, I would prefer a small peaceable Society, in which Men, neither envy’d nor esteem’d by Neighbours, should be contented to live upon the Natural Product of the Spot they inhabit, to a vast Multitude abounding in Wealth and Power, that should always be conquering others by their Arms Abroad, and debauching themselves by Foreign Luxury at Home.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.

Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything – real feelings, true happiness, real joy. They can’t get through that fog. But you lift it, and buddy, you’re in for the ride of your life.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.