Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. George Bernard Shaw
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. Pablo Picasso
I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it. Elizabeth Wurtzel
Happiness can exist only in acceptance. George Orwell
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think. Dale Carnegie
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy. Chanakya
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. Nelson Mandela
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. Elbert Hubbard
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. Soren Kierkegaard
The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift. Ellen DeGeneres
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. Henry Ford
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness. Abdul Kalam
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. Norman Vincent Peale
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Carl Jung
No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. Barbara de Angelis
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. Plato