And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
There's nothing as beautiful as the happiness of a child
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
- Madame De Maintenon
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
- Dick Gregory
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
- Anonymous
Who is blind? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich? He who is happy with his lot.
- Indian Proverb
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
- Chinese Proverb
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
- Hasidic Proverb
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
- James Oppenheim
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
- Spanish Proverb
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
- Berthold Auerbach
The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
- Leo Rosten, American teacher and humorist
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
- Storm Jameson
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
- Margaret B. Runbeck
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
- Anonymous
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
- Ray Lyman Wilbur
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Allan K. Chalmers
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
Happiness is a state of activity.
- Aristotle
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
- Anonymous
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Epictetus
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Benjamin Franklin
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mills
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Robert F. Kennedy
Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
William Ellery Channing
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Ghandi
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Henry W. Longfellow
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
J. Petit Senn
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come,—as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Thomas Fuller
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Publilius Syrus
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