Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorry.

––Joseph Conrad

Don’t go for happiness, go for truth!

––Charles Tart

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

––Albert Schweitzer

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

––James Oppenheim

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.

––Chinese Proverb

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

––Wayne Dyer

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent them from nesting in your hair.

 ––Swedish Proverb

Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.

––Fulton J. Sheen

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

––Kahlil Gibran

What worries you masters you.

––Haddon W. Robinson

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

––Leo Buscaglia

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

––Bertrand Russell