External victories bring temporary happiness. Conquering yourself brings lasting happiness.

Vadim Kotelnikov

The Secret of Happiness: Keep smiling at your fate, and your fate will smile back at you.

Vadim Kotelnikov

Let your critics keep their negative opinions, and you keep your happiness.

Vadim Kotelnikov

Tame the mind. This is the greatest challenge before you. It rushes here and there, swifter than the wind, more slippery than water. If you can arrest the flights of the mind to your will, happiness will be assured to you.

Buddha

Possessing material comforts in no way guarantees happiness. Only spiritual wealth can bring true true happiness.

Konosuke Matsushita

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama

Happiness, if attainable at all, must be sought by reflection upon things that are remote from the impressions of sense.

Plotinus

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

Gracian Baltasar

Be happy now – don’t wait for it... >>>

Leo Babauta

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.

J. Donald Walters

Concern for a friend's happiness will enhance your own.

Unknown

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Marguerite Gardiner

He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness.

Chinese proverb

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

Bette Davis

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Baruch Spinoza

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

Dale Carnegie

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Ruth Bell Graham

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

Life is like a cup of coffee. Savor the coffee, not the cups! The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.

Unknown

To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy...  is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson