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

 “If you want happiness for an hour—take a nap. If you want happiness for a day—go fishing. If you want happiness for a year—inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime—help someone else.”

“Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.”

“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” 

“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.”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” 

“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

 "If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes."

"Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are."

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity." 

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."

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

“The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment." 

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” 

 “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

 “Happiness is a warm puppy.” 

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.” 

“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”

. “The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”

“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.”

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” 

“Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.”

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ”

“Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections”

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.” 

“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”

“You can't buy happiness”

 “Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks—I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.”

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”