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Albert Einstein

"Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness."
"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."
"Happiness is a well-balanced combination of love, labour, and luck."
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling."
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."
"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy?"
"As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves."
"You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes."
"t’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."
"The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable."
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."
"Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so."
"I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve."
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."
"Real happiness is not of temporary enjoyment, but is so interwoven with the future that it blesses for ever."
"Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy."
"Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."
"Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
"All happiness depends on courage and work."
"True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
"Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack."
"Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking."
"Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy."
"How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now."
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not."