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I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happinessÖ

Dalai Lama

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

Aristotle

True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

Helen Gurley Brown

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible

Bertrand Russell

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually

Stephen R. Covey

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

Martha Washington

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

J. Donald Walters

Happiness? That's nothing more than a good health and a poor memory.

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates

Sarah McLachlan

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action

Benjamin Disraeli

Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness

Ray L. Wilbur

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

Honor de Balzac

... the greatest part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

Martha Washington 1731

Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my fundamental belief. Having a sense of caring, a feeling of compassion will bring happiness of peace of mind to oneself and automatically create a positive atmosphere.

Dalai Lama 1935

Contentment is accepting the world as an imperfect place.

Anon xx

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Gretta Brooker Palmer

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D Roosevelt 1882

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer 1875

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

Bill Moyers

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Sidonie Gabrielle

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert Heinlein

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be

Marcel Pagnol

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