Happiness Project Toolbox

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad

There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. Alexander Woollcott

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people half way.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Look at yourself, like yourself, and find the positive.

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

“Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.”

“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”

“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.”

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

The main thing in one’s own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. Peter Ustinov

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

It’s no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst

I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

"I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.”

“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.”

“Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is"

“Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”

“A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.”

“A good home must be made, not bought"

“We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.”

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

“Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.”

“Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.”

“Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.”

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop to look around once in a while you could miss it.”

“We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.”

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

“Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.”

“I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.”

“All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.”

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.”

Give me one friend, just one, who meets the needs of all my varying moods.

Kindness is always fashionable.

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay “in kind” somewhere else in life.

People who give will never be poor.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.

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