“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.” — Dr. Robert Anthony
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” — Marthe Troly-Curtin
“Happiness is a state of activity.” — Aristotle
“The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.” — Epictetus
“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.” — Seneca
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” — Dalai Lama
“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” — Albert Camus
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” — Aristotle
“It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” — Lucille Ball
“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” — Dennis Waitley
“It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.” — Seneca
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.” — Seneca
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” — Epictetus
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” — Confucius
“The only joy in the world is to begin.” — Cesare Pavese