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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled.

So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations. The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness.

You have to catch it yourself. The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.

If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.

He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day. If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap. If you want happiness for a day — go fishing. If you want happiness for a month — get married. If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune. It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it. Share this quote:. Like Quote. Recommend to friends. To see what your friends thought of this quote, please sign up!

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