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The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go. ~Dodinsky

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment. ~Carlos Santana

Happiness is living life to the fullest with no regrets and squeezing something out of every minute of our existence. ~Craig Smith

We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. ~Joseph Campbell

Happiness consists more of small everyday pleasures than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.” ~Benjamin Franklin

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

Optimism is essential to achievement and the foundation of progress. ~Nicholas M. Butler

Optimism is the opium of the people.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. ~Bernard Beckett

True hopefulness and optimism are what lead one to dare. They are also what lift one back up to dare again after a failed attempt. ~Bibi Bourelly

Optimism is the foundation of courage. ~Nicholas M. Butler

If you’re going to fail, then fail gloriously. ~Cate Blanchett

There is no ‘right time’. There is only time and what you choose to do with it.

Happiness often sneaks through a door you didn’t know you’d left open. ~John Barrymore

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. ~Katharine Hepburn

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. ~George Sand

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. ~Freya Stark

I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it. ~Groucho Marx

Happiness is not (necessarily) doing fun things. Happiness is doing meaningful things. ~Maxime Lagace

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

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

Happiness significantly depends on courage and work. ~Honore de Balzac

With more joy comes unlimited possibilities. ~Heather Leachman-Beck

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness. ~Charles Spurgeon

You find joy in a task by taking pride in your work. ~Ryan Mayton

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. ~Baruch Spinoza

Be happy in this moment. This moment is your life. ~Omar Khayyam

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. ~George Sand

Happiness cannot be traveled to, learned or consumed. It is the experiences of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. ~Denis Waitley

It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. ~Lucille Ball

If you want to be happy, practice compassion. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. ~Marcus Aurelius

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ~Benjamin Disraeli

True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Happiness is a cup of tea, a comfy chair and a great book. ~Tracy Brower

The secret to happiness is a bad memory. ~Rita Mae Brown

Happiness is not a matter of intensity, but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. ~Thomas Merton

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves. ~Frank McCourt

The person with the talent they were meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. ~Johann Wolfgan von Goeth

The most worthwhile thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. ~Robert Baden-Powell

There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path.

The foolish person seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grow it underfoot. ~James Oppenheim

There are millions reasons to be happy and millions of reasons to be unhappy. The choice is yours. ~Ajay Kaurav

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

It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you’re doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. ~Dale Carnegie

Enjoy the little things in life, for someday you’ll realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness. ~Frank Tyger

Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ~Guillaume Apollinaire

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