HAPPINESS

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus T Therefore / Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. A. Einstein

I wish I had never been born, what are we born for? - For infinite happiness.

In order for there to be happiness there must also be sadness as a part of life.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. 

There has to be love / trust in order for there to be happiness. 

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with / to another, nothing more.' Alexandre Dumas

There need not be perfection on earth for there to be happiness.

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

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

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

Happiness is a gift that comes to he who did not seek it.

Happiness is not something you experience, it is something you remember.

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure. Shopenhauer

Happiness lies, first of all, in health.

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation. 

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

"I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment ... 

If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

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

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. Samuel Beckett

The secret of happiness is to yield to temptations.

There has to be trust in order for there to be happiness

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.

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

(Do you) want to be happy? Just be yourself.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.