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Happiness - Happiness is a direction, not a place.

  1. Happiness is a direction, not a place.  -Sydney J. Harris
  2. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. -Albert Schweitzer.
  3. I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world. I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself. -Sri Chinmoy.
  4. Whoever is happy will make others happy, too. - Mark Twain.

  5. Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.Benjamin Disraeli.

  6. Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity. - Joseph Addison.

  7. The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it.
    – Kofi Annan.

  8. The way to happiness -- keep your heart free from hate, your mind free from worry, live simply, expect little, give much. - Carol Borges.

  9. "If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap.
    If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing.
    If you want happiness for a month -- get married.
    If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune.
    If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else.
    - Chinese proverb

  10. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
    -- Mohandas Gandhi.

  11. It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness.  - Thomas Jefferson.

  12. No joy can equal the joy of serving others. - Sai Baba .

  13. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. -George Sand.

  14. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.  -Mark Twain.

  15. Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.  -Norm Papernick.

  16. Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys.  If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.  -Fyodor Dostoevsky.

  17. The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.  -James Openheim.

  18. Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.  -John Barrymore.

  19. It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness.  Poverty and wealth have both failed.  -Frank McKinney.

  20. Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.  -St. Augustine.

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