Hugh Downs

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

I love people who make me laugh.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Let’s make ourselves happy

Action may not bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Happiness cannot be travel to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Happiness ain’t a thing in itself -it’s only a contrast with something that ain’t pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain’t happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

Choose happiness, not success, as your life’s goal. If you become successful but aren’t happy, then what is the point?

It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy, it’s only necessary to be rich.

You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than you do to consume wealth without producing it.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.