I start to think there really is no cure for depression that happiness is an ongoing battle and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth 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.

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

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

Independence is happiness.

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

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

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

To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Politicians also have no leisure because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself power and glory or happiness.

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

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart live for it die for it and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

No matter how dull or how mean or how wise a man is he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

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