“If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows like a shadow.” ~ Buddha
“The Constitution only guarantees you the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
“Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.” ~ Confucius
“Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” ~ Aristotle
“The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.” ~ Mencius
“The ultimate happiness is doing nothing.” ~ Zhuangzi
“Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.” ~ William James
“What does ‘happy’ mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.” ~ Abraham Maslow
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ~ Mohandas Gandhi
“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.” ~ Bertrand Russell
“When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.” ~ Immanuel Kant
“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.” ~ Johann Wolfang von Goethe
“Some people cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? ~ Albert Einstein
“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” ~ Groucho Marx
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