happiness Quotes

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost . .

When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels leave heaven and come and sit in that house and sing for joy.

No happiness is like unto it, no love so great as that of man and wife, no such comfort as a sweet wife.

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable .

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible, it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day and hour with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Love you know, seeks to make happy rather than to be happy.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself to be petty, self-seeking, troubled by trivial misfortunes, dreading what fate may have in store for him. The man capable of greatness of soul will open wide the windows of his mind, letting the winds blow freely upon it from every portion of the universe. He will see himself and life and the world as truly as our human limitations will permit; realizing the brevity and minuteness of human life, he will realize also that in individual minds is concentrated whatever of value the known universe contains. And he will see that the man whose mind mirrors the world becomes in a sense as great as the world. In emancipation from the fears that beset the slave of circumstance he will experience a profound joy, and through all the vicissitudes of his outward life he will remain in the depths of his being a happy man.

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would have thus been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.

For strength to bear is found in duty alone, and he is blest indeed who learns to make the joy of others cure his own heartache.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery.

In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself.

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

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simple, yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend.

Happiness lies in our own backyard, but It's probably well hidden by crabgrass.

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

This planet has or rather had a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it was not the small pieces of paper that were unhappy.

to be blessed , happy, healthy and prosperous.

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.

Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

We must dare to be happy, and dare to confess it, regarding ourselves always as the depositories, not as the authors of our own joy.

Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves.

All I ask for is an opportunity to prove that money doesn't buy happiness.

All the happiness you ever find lies in you.

An endurance test for some people is the pursuit of happiness.

For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want the most for what you want now.

Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment.

Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.

Happiness is acceptance.

Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things , It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.

Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.

Happiness is made to be shared.

Happiness is not always measured in smiles.

Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.

Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

He alone is the happy man who has learned to extract happiness not from ideal conditions but from actual ones about him.

He who has not learned to share his blessings with others has not found the true path to enduring happiness. HAPPINESS comes from sharing one's self and one's blessings. All riches are multiplied by the simple process of sharing them where they may serve others.

Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.

Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

Much happiness is overlooked because it doesn't cost anything.

No one can secure happiness without earning it.

Security is a thumb and a blanket. Happiness is a warm puppy.

Some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Some pursue happiness, others create it.

Sometimes we miss happiness by looking too far for things nearby.

Stop searching. Happiness is right next to you.

The supreme happiness to life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves.

When people yearn with all their hearts For just one treasure far away ; They close their eyes to countless joys That crowd around them every day.

You have to find happiness in yourself before you can find it with someone.

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

Happiness depends upon ourselves .

Happiness is a state of activity.

. . . happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it. . . .

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it , it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

The lives and happiness of our children, as far ahead as the mind can reach, depend on us today. If we succeed, posterity looking back will record that this was indeed man's finest hour.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

You can make yourself happy or miserable, it's the same amount of effort.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

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.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

What is the best thing for a stream? It is to keep moving. If it stops, it stagnates. So the best thing for a man is that which keeps the currents going - the physical, the moral, and the intellectual currents. Hence the secret of happiness is something to do; some congenial work. Take away the occupation of all men, and what a wretched world it would be! Few persons realize how much of their happiness is dependent upon their work, upon the fact that they are kept busy and not left to feed upon themselves. Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought; it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it. How important is health to happiness, yet the best promoter of health is something to do. Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

What is the worth of anything , But for the happiness 'twill bring?

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion ...

Anybody who is happy all the time needs a psychiatrist.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

In our daily lives, we must see That it is not happiness that makes us grateful , But the gratefulness that makes us happy.

Happiness is a stock that doubles in a year.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.

We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.

If solid happiness we prize , Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to bestow ; From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home.

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

We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Happiness is always a byproduct. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.

Happiness is not given but exchanged.

The envious are not happy unless they are making other people envious.

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

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

The gift of happiness belongs to those who unwrap it.

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Account no man happy till he dies.

It is not by accident that the happiest people are those who make a conscious effort to live useful lives. Their happiness, of course, is not a shallow exhilaration where life is one continuous intoxicating party. Rather, their happiness is a deep sense of inner peace that comes when they believe their lives have meaning and that they are making a difference for good in the world.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise.

There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . . Happiness springs immediately from the mind.

Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and . . . not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.

Happiness is a myth we seek , If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks . For man is happy only in His aspiration to the heights ; When he attains his goal, he cools And longs for other distant flights.

If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.

Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary.

A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.

The highest happiness of man . . . is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness. This happiness is the simplest and least costly kind, and it cannot be purchased with money. But it can be increased if we do two things: if we recognize and uphold the essential values of family life and if we get and keep control of the process of social change so as to make it give us what is needed to make family life perform its essential functions.

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

Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, my alight upon you.

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel towards what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment, it is a result.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends But in the worth and choice.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.

Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.

Unhappiness is the hunger to get; happiness is the hunger to give. . . . If the individual should set out for a single day to give happiness, to make life happier, brighter and sweeter, not for himself but for others, he would find a wondrous revelation of what happiness really is.

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

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.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which as been opened for us.

Definition of happiness: The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

Happiness and misery depend as much on temperament as on fortune.

One is never so happy or so unhappy as one thinks.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

Happiness isn't something you experience, it's something you remember.

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

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Experience praises the most happy is the one who made the most people happy.

The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.

The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways.

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

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

If you find some happiness inside yourself, you'll start findin ' it in lot of other places too.

Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.

Where, then, does happiness lie? In forgetfulness, not indulgence, of the self. In escape from sensual appetites, not in their satisfaction. We live in a dark, self-enclosed prison, which is all we see or know if our glance is fixed ever downward. To lift it upward, becoming aware of the wide, luminous universe outside, this alone is happiness. At its highest level, such happiness is the ecstasy that mystics have inadequately described. At more humdrum levels, it is human love; the delights and beauties of our dear earth, its colors and shapes and sounds; the enchantment of understanding and laughing, and all other exercise of such faculties as we possess; the marvel of the meaning of everything, fitfully glimpsed, inadequately expounded, but ever present.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball , And that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.

If this world afford true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

It is necessary to the happiness of a man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character].

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts....take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true.

Yesterday is but a vision, and tomorrow is only a dream. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a dream of hope.

There is no relief at it being over. There is the joy of winning it.

We're worn into grooves by Time by our habits. In the end, these grooves are going to show whether we've been second rate or champions, each in his way in dispatching the affairs of every day. By choosing our habits, we determine the grooves into which Time will wear us; and these are grooves that enrich our lives and make for ease of mind, peace, happiness achievement.

Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered when others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.

The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge.

If . . . happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

Happy the man who knows the causes of things.

That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and furnishes to it matter of enjoyment from within itself, is of more consequence to real felicity than all the provisions which we can make of the goods of fortune.

To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that we might enjoy the higher qualities of the spiritual. As we fast on that day we learn and better understand the needs of those who are less fortunate.

He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

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

Don't accept that others know you better than yourself? Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors....But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

You can get everything money will buy without a lick of character, but you can't get any of the things money won't buy- happiness ,joy, peace of mind, winning relationships, etc., without character.

Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders...Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest.

The things we accept as normal and enjoy today were considered impossible twenty-five years ago and beyond the power of man to achieve. The early

When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-Gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.

He has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.