Happiness and Joy

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

To fill the hour, and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

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

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Remember this that very little is needed to make a happy life.

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

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

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

I have resolved that from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to think too much about the future.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn a living at it. One should earn one’s living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anyone can we find joy in scientific endeavor.

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,

The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.