Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Independence is happiness.

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

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it is not one I will have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it is worth it.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they are not on your road Does not mean they've gotten lost.

Remember happiness Does not depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

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

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.