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Happiness.

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

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.”

James Oppenheim

“No matter what happens to you, your mind works by reverting to your predetermined level of happiness once you've adapted to the new event.”

Thibaut Meurisse

“The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping.”

“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens.”

“Purpose is meaning, and meaning is happiness.”

“True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

“Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”

“When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”

“The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.”

“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Joy shared is twice the joy. Sorrow shared is half the sorrow.”

Swedish proverbs

“Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”

“O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.”

Saint Augustine

“To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.”

“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”

“Never regret anything that made you smile.”

“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.”

“There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.”

“Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

“We so skillfully hide our pain that many people are jealous of our happiness.”

“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.”

“The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.”

Arthur Schopenhauer