We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we’ve established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.

This is the true joy in life – being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote [...]

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances.

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that’s not what happiness really is.

Happiness exists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldome to man in the course of his life.

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