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“My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
― John Lennon

“When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?”
― Henry Rollins

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.”
― Henry Rollins

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

“Do it or don't. It's amazing how many things in life are that easy.”
― Henry Rollins

“My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.”
― Henry Rollins

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka

“Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power: A Zen Master's Guide to Redefining Power, Achieving True Freedom and Discovering Lasting Happiness in a Stressful World

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“If you want to be happy, be.”
― Leo Tolstory

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.”
― Buddha

“Your soul is the whole world.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”
― Buddha

“Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.”
― James Altucher, Choose Yourself

“Whoever knows what is enough Will be happy with his fate.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: The Book of The Way and its Virtue

“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”
― Tim Ferriss

“Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.”
― Lao-Tzu

“Life is too short to read a bad book.”
― James Joyce

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
― Seneca

“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
― Marcel Proust

“Misery and fortune share a trust.
Happiness hides in misery.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“The struggle itself [...] is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
― Homer

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
― Marcel Proust