Kin Hubbard

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

Choose happiness, not success, as your life’s goal. If you become successful but aren’t happy, then what is the point?

While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. This creed is somewhat short, but it is long enough for this life, strong enough for this world. If there is another world, when we get there we can make another creed.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

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.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

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

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

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

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

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 best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

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.

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.

If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.