Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Dale Carnegie

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
Dale Carnegie

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.
Sigmund Freud

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
Sigmund Freud

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Plato

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
Billy Graham

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas Paine

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Karl Marx

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Leo Buscaglia

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint Augustine

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Langston Hughes

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Leo Tolstoy

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
Bob Hope

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane Austen

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.
Rush Limbaugh

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns