The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

I am a happy camper so I guess I'm doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

"I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.

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

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people's hands.

Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

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.

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song.

Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced.