We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
My number one daily habit is to give myself permission to be happy. It’s physical and mental; it’s my diet, physical activity, and emotional state. That’s all tied together.
If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.
It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.
When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
Be happy; without reason.
I’m always smiling and happy.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Relinquishing the delusional hope that we can or must be flawless allows us to seek happiness in the place it can be found: Our real, messy, imperfect experience
Happiness ain’t a thing in itself -it’s only a contrast with something that ain’t pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain’t happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.
What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Let’s make ourselves happy
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
