Happiness

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

An open heart is an open mind.

Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy of being Salvador Dalí.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves.

To do what you love — that is freedom.

The secret of life is to take the good things when they come.

Old age is only bearable if one has not lost the desire to become young again.

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

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

Peace begins with a smile.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

It is not what we get, but who we become, what we contribute — that gives meaning to our lives.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

I can resist anything except temptation.