Mark Twain

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

If you have to eat a frog, don’t look at it for too long.

The billiard table is better than the doctor.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Duties are not performed for duty’s sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

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

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

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.

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

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

I’m always smiling and happy.

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

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

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.

Don’t worry, be happy!

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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.

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