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Happiness.

The pursuit of joy, contentment, and what truly matters.

“If you enjoy what you do, don't be afraid of expressing your enthusiasm. Enjoyment is infectious and you will bring others along with you.”

“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

George Washington

“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.”

“Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.”

“The man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The man who is born with a talent which he is meant to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

Thomas Jefferson

“We laugh at honor, and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.”

“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”

“Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.”

“Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.”

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”

Abraham Lincoln

“The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.”

“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.”

“Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.”

“Laughter is an instant vacation.”

“God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”

“Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.”

“True holiness consists in doing God's will with a smile.”

“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.”

“Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.”

“It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.”

“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.”

“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”

“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”

“There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.”

“In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.”

“The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”

Thomas Jefferson

“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”

“Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”

“It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.”

“Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.”

John C. Maxwell

“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”

“A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.”

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”

“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.”

“Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.”

“The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The happiness we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“The harsh truth is that nothing last forever, so when you have it, enjoy it, appreciate it. Don't take it for granted.”