Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
- Joseph Campbell


Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
- Joseph Campbell


Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.
- Mark Twain


Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
- George Washington


Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle


Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
- Ingrid Bergman


Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
- Thomas Jefferson


Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mahatma Gandhi


He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates


How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
- Mark Twain


I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Thomas Jefferson


I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.
- Michael Jackson


It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson


Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
- Mark Twain


Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
- Ben Franklin


Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln


Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln


Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- Thomas Jefferson


Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
- Joseph Campbell


Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
- Mahatma Gandhi


She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know.
- Marilyn Monroe


The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain


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


The discontented man finds no easy chair.
- Ben Franklin


There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
- Mark Twain


There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
- Ben Franklin


They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius


This is a happy day for me. I think the tears that you see basically is that I have really enjoyed this ride. It's been really great, really fantastic.
- Jerry Rice


Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
- Ben Franklin


Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children's approach to life. They're people who don't give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought - sometimes it isn't much, either.
- Walt Disney


Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
- Ben Franklin


With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.
- Confucius