Hugh Walpole Quotes

Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

I think we can choose to be happy in our lives.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

If you want to be happy, be.

I don't focus on happiness as a goal or an end.

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Happiness is an inside job.

Being happy is a revolutionary act; I think it spreads, like ripples in a pond.

I'm all about cultivating joy in your life.

Usually we try to figure out what we think would make us happy, and then try to make those things happen. But happiness isn't circumstance-de pendent. There are people who have every reason in the world to be happy who aren't. There are people with genuine problems who are. The key to happiness is the decision to be happy.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Not enough people in this world are happy.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.

I like my life. It's good.

We must be doing something to be happy.

I try to live by the rule do what makes you happy.