“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”
“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”
“There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”
“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.”
“The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”
“Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.”
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
“Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.”
“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.”
“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”
“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
“People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat – that’s the only moral they know.”
“The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.”
“People should find happiness in the little things, like family.”
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
Love the life you live. Live the life you love.
“We can’t control the world. We can only (barely) control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement.”
“Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.”