Happiness comes from our mental attitude and ceasing to worry about things outside of our control, rather than external conditions. It is achieved through pursuing our values and achieving what must be done, rather than pain or self-indulgence. While the Constitution allows us to pursue happiness, we must work to attain it ourselves through being content in any state and not dwelling on the past.

1. What is
HAPPINESS
?
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2. Happiness doesn't depend on any external
conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
Dale Carnegie

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

4. The first recipe for happiness is: avoid
too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andre Maurois

5. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and
silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be
in, therein to be content.
Helen Keller

6. Just do what must be done. This may not be
happiness, but it is greatness.
George Bernard Shaw

7. Achievement of your happiness is the only moral
purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or
mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral
integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your
loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Ayn Rand

8. The Constitution only gives people the right to
pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

9. Don't wait around for other people to be happy
for you. Any happiness you get you've got to
make yourself.
Alice Walker

10. The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama

11. Don’t leave this presentation
before making the widest grin you can