Happiness

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

John Lennon

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Oscar Wilde

The happiness of society is the end of government.

John Adams

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

Ayn Rand

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Blaise Pascal

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Thomas Jefferson

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Mark Twain

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

Dale Carnegie

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Thomas Jefferson

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Edmund Burke

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality.

Paulo Coelho

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

Aristotle

Independence is happiness.

Susan B. Anthony

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Marcus Aurelius

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

Mark Twain

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Thomas Jefferson