Quotes

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

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness. - Harold Kushner

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think. - Dale Carnegie

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. - Ernest Hemingway

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand. - Maurice Maeterlinck

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way. - Sophocles

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. - John Stuart Mill

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.
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. - Helen Keller

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. - Ambrose Bierce

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness. - Tracy Kidder

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. - Helen Keller