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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