Nathaniel Hawthorne

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.

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.

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

I love people who make me laugh.

Happy is harder than money. Anyone who thinks money will make them happy, doesn’t have money.

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

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

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

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.

Action may not bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

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.

It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.

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

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.