“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.” ~ Anonymous
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” ~ Buddha
“He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness” ~ Chinese Proverb
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
“If you spend your life trying to do what everyone else does, you’re going to be a mightily unhappy, boring person.” ~ Loretta LaRoche
“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“Material success may result in the accumulation of possessions: but only spiritual success will enable you to enjoy them.” ~ Nido Qubein
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” ~ Mark Twain
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” ~ Jim Rohn
“True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” ~ Helen Keller
“No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.” ~ Helen Keller
“No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.” ~ Helen Keller
“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” ~ Helen Keller
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” ~ Helen Keller
“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face” ~ Victor Hugo
“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. 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.” ~ Carl Gustav Jung
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.” ~ Albert Einstein