Relinquishing the delusional hope that we can or must be flawless allows us to seek happiness in the place it can be found: Our real, messy, imperfect experience

Martha Beck

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Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Henry David Thoreau

Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.

Chang-Tzu

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Hugh Downs

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

George Eliot

It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.

Mandy Hals

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Deepak Chopra

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

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

Haemin Sunim

Happiness isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.

Dr Phil McGraw

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

The truth is that all of us can attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to its greatest extent.

Smiley Blanton

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Leo Tolstoy

When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun.

John Lennon

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Victor Borge