Happiness
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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.
I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
