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Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself. – Alice Walker

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. – Francesca Reigler

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren’t happy in one place, chances are you won’t be happy anyplace. – Ernie Banks

I’m going to smile and make you think I’m happy, I’m going to laugh, so you don’t see me cry, I’m going to let you go in style, and even if it kills me- I’m going to smile

Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy. – Dale Carnegie

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. – Charles Kingsley

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. – Marcus Aurelius

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. – Epicurus

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. – G. K. Chesterton

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. – Bertrand Russell

He alone is great and happy who requires neither to command nor to obey in order to secure his being of some importance in this world. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it. – William Feather

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. – Johnny Carson

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. – J.D. Salinger

Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. – François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it. – C.P. Snow

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. – Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. – Author Unknown

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. – Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness