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

True happiness comes from the things that cannot be taken away from you. Making the full effort to do the right thing can never be taken away from you.

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious, the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance — these open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss.

The greatest happiness is the happiness that comes as a by-product of striving to do what must be done, even though sorrow is met in the doing.

At the end of the day, happiness is derived from love — love for others and others’ love for you. When I say “love” I do not mean simply romantic love, though that is obviously one of the greatest wellsprings of true happiness. I mean the love one feels from friends, and the love for places and things that brings people together for shared purpose.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Happiness comes when you are doing something because you really love to do it, and not because it gives you riches or makes you a prominent person.

Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.

happiness is being able to enjoy the things you worked for without slipping into thinking about what is missing or what you want next

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.

Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment — and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them.

True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving.

This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.