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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.

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.

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.

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

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

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.

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

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

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

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

I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands of men. They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though I was trying to fool with them. And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along the Desplaines river and I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with their women and children and a keg of beer and an accordion.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

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

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?

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

What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.

I think happiness is what makes you pretty.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? — All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? — The feeling that power is increasing — that resistance has been overcome.