Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly read more

The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly considered the parent of misery.

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down read more

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, read more

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we read more

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.

Happiness is like a kiss...you must share it to enjoy it.

Happiness is like a kiss...you must share it to enjoy it.

Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.

Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.

Happiness is not always measured in smiles.

Happiness is not always measured in smiles.