Happiness Is A Gift And The Trick Is Not To Expect

“Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.”

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”

“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.”

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

“Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to indulge. Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy—a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction, not the joy of escaping from your mind, but of using your mind's fullest power, not the joy of faking reality, but of achieving values that are real, not the joy of a drunkard, but of a producer. Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.”

“Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.”