Happiness and Joy

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment . . . It gives warmth and good feeling to all your personal relationships.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

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

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainty that just to be alive is a grand thing.

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.

Happiness is not an accident. Nor is it something you wish for. Happiness is something you design.

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

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

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.