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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. – Albert Einstein

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. – Mildred Barthel

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. – Margaret Lee Runbeck

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. – Author Unknown

All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming – a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness. – Antoine de Saint – Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society. – Charles Gow

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. – Robert S. Lynd

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be. – Marcel Pagnol

You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness. – Julia Roberts

When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy. – Oscar Wilde