Happiness

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark Twain

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
William Shakespeare

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson

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

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson

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It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Dalai Lama

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Thomas Jefferson

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas Jefferson

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Benjamin Franklin

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi