I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.
I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
If you want to be happy, be.
Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.
History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy.
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.
Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all
Whatever living beings there may be-feeble or strong, long, stout or of medium size, short, small, large, those seen or those unseen, those dwelling far or near, those who are born as well as those yet to be born-may all beings have happy minds.
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.
He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.
He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined.
If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, then the elephant has lost only the ornament of his head. The bees are quite happy in the lotus filled lake.
Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
