George Sand

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.

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

You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than you do to consume wealth without producing it.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to haunt for happiness

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.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

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

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

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

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.

Happiness cannot be travel to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

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

I have to plan my happiness. That’s the thing, we think happiness just happens and it can, but you’ve got to work in some happiness too.