If thou wilt make

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. Epicurus

There is only one

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. Epictetus

Beautiful people do not

Beautiful people do not just happen Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

We tend to forget

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. Friedrich Koenig

It was only a

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living. F. Scott Fitzgerald

This planet has —

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time. Douglas Adams