Quotes

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. - Benjamin Disraeli

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy… is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy… is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life. - William Ellery Channing

Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination; Happiness.. but few are going by the same road.
Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination; Happiness.. but few are going by the same road. - Charles Caleb Colton

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?
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? - Charles Schulz

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

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. - Democritus

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state, we must be doing something to be happy.
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state, we must be doing something to be happy. - Mahatma Gandhi

Why not learn to enjoy the little things.. there are so many of them.
Why not learn to enjoy the little things.. there are so many of them. - Author Unknown

Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. - Guillaume Apollinaire

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. - Margaret Lee Runbeck