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Happiness seems to be the result of something happening — inactivity is not very exhilarating.

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.

Happiness is not always measured in smiles.

Happiness is acceptance.

Happiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart must be satisfied. Those who do good as opportunity offers are sowing seed all the time, and they need not doubt the harvest.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Happiness is an inside job.

Happiness isn't a static thing; it's the quest for happiness that allows us to think we're happy, while we continue to search for more.

Happiness is being married to your best friend.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping, is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.