Epitectus

To fill the hour – that is happiness.

If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

How often, for example, have you said or heard someone else say, “All I really want in this life is to be happy”? It sounds like a commonsense answer, but as a life goal, it is destined for failure. My dog, Barkley, wants to be happy. Does that mean that the two of you want the same things? I don’t think so. I’ll bet everything I own that you and Barkley define happiness very differently. So unless you’re willing to settle for someone scratching your belly and letting you sleep under the coffee table, you might want to be a little more precise about what you as a unique individual really want.

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

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

It’s time for you to claim the happiness that you deserve in your life.

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.

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.

If you are not happy every morning when you get up, leave for work, or start to work at home, and are not enthusiastic about doing that, you will not be successful.

A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

The unhappiest man on earth is the one who has nothing to do.