The Essentials of Happiness

It always pays to put others before yourself. It is the path to true happiness. Make it a habit to give – whether yourself, your time, your money, a word of encouragement, or a listening ear – and you will find peace and happiness that cannot be beaten.

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love and something to hope for. - Allan K Chalmers

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. - Greg Anderson

I have decided to be happy because it is good for my health. - Voltaire

What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today. - Unknown

There are two ways to be happy; improve your reality, or lower your expectations. - Jodi Picoult

The effects of being charitable to others leads to a measurable increase in happiness. - Myriam Mongrain

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. - Norman Vincent Peale

Our happiness depends chiefly upon the estimate we form of life, and the efforts we make to bring ourselves into harmony with its laws. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. - Abraham Lincoln

Even if you’re unhappy, just pretend that you’re happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that. I used to think, ‘I’m being fake,’ but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable. - Evangeline Lilly

We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment. - Immanuel Kant

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