Hugh Downs

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

If you want to be happy, be.

Happiness, wealth, and success are the byproducts of goal setting; they cannot be the goals themselves.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

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

If happiness is what you’re after, you’re gonna be let down frequently and you’re gonna be unhappy much of your time. Joy though, joy is the feeling that we have doing what we are fashioned to do, no matter the outcome.

Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.

I think happiness is love.

The secret of happiness? Live life in the slow lane.

The truth is that all of us can attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to its greatest extent.

Be happy; without reason.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

But you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.