It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Happiness cannot be found; it must be created anew everyday.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

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

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

The highest happiness of man… is to have probed what is knowable and quietly revere what is unknowable.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

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

Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.

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

The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.

Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this live whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid to lengthy meditation on the past.

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

If you want to be happy, be.

You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of, is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness, it means more to me than my life itself.

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

When what we are is what we want to be, that’s happiness.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.

The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there’s no happiness without action.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.