For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. — Albert Camus

The most important thing is to enjoy your life to be happy, it’s all that matters. — Audrey Hepburn

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

— Gabriel García Márquez

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

— Ayn Rand

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

— Robert Frost

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. — Aristotle

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them. — Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others. — Martin Luther King Jr

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

— Seneca

Happiness is not a goal… it’s a by-product of a life well lived.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

— Compiled by Sicourney Jackson