No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
You always hear the phrase money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.
What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life but the problem is I chose a business saturated in judgment.
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business the rest doesn't matter happiness or unhappiness.
I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest but the happiest are usually the best.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
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.
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation the man of manly character and of wisdom.
I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter and I see beauty.
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset I hear my mother's voice and smile.
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!