1.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus
2.
Comparison is the thief of joy.
Ray Cummings
3.
Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.
Nathaniel Hawthorn
4.
Happiness is the simplest and most ordinary thing in life, not the lofty words like in novels, literature or poems.
Virginia Woolf
5.
Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.
Socrates
6.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. Chesterton
7.
If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy
8.
If you say you are happy it means you were at one point sad.
9.
If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled.
Lao Tzu
10.
It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
Dale Carnegie
11.
Show gratitude everyday, because you cannot feel grateful and depressed at the same time.
12.
What is happiness? The feeling that power increases; that resistance is overcome.
