Quotes about Happiness

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

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.

If you want to be happy, set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy, get enthusiastic about something.

The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good life.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is?