„If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.“

„Step follows step,
Hope follows Courage,
Set your face towards danger,
Set your heart on victory.“

—  Gail Carson Levine, The Two Princesses of Bamarre

Source: The Two Princesses of Bamarre

„Be thoughtful of others all your life and you will be very happy.“

—  Jun Hong Lu Australian Buddhist leader 1959

Hong Kong, (01 June 2014)[citation needed].

„Want the best. The highest happiness, the greatest freedom. Desirelessness is the highest bliss. (…) Only God’s energy is infinite – because he wants nothing for Himself. Be like Him and all your desires will be fulfilled. The higher your aims and vaster desires, the more energy you will have for their fulfillment. Desire the good of all and the universe will work for you. But if you want your own pleasure, you must earn it the hard way. (…).“

—  Nisargadatta Maharaj Indian guru 1897 - 1981

Desire and fear
Source: "I am That." P.49-50.

„If you want to happy for the rest of your life, make a crack-whore your wife.“

—  Kerry Jackson

Radio From Hell (July 27 2005)

„Happiness starts with you. Not with your relationships, not with your job, not with your money, but with you!“

—  Ralph Smart

„If in your own experience you haven't yet learned the truth of the deception of feelings, then you just have to go on believing and thinking, having faith in the past and hope in the future, being happy today and unhappy tomorrow, but never being in command of your own life for long.“

—  Barry Long Australian spiritual teacher and writer 1926 - 2003

Love is not a feeling ~ The Article (1995)

„If you want external happiness, it can be an elusive desire. Internal happiness needs only to be revealed. It is not elusive because it is within you. It is your treasure. If you take someone else's treasure, it is stealing, but if you turn to your own, it is not. Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.“

—  Prem Rawat controversial spiritual leader 1957

Fernbank, London, England October, 1971
1970s
Variant: If you want external happiness, it can be an elusive desire. Internal happiness needs only to be revealed. It is not elusive because it is within you. It is your treasure. If you take someone else's treasure, it is stealing, but if you turn to your own, it is not. Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

„No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change“

—  Barbara De Angelis American psychologist 1951

„The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.“

—  Marcus Aurelius, book Meditations

Source: Meditations

„You are the average of 5 people you surround yourself with most. If you are not happy with the current set of people around you then find your people. You have to find your tribe asap if you want to do better in life.“

—  Ralph Smart

„The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.“

—  Marcus Aurelius, book Meditations

Variant: The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Source: Meditations

„Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself“

—  George Sand French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin 1804 - 1876

„I want your life filling and stirring me. I want your happiness beneath my heart and your sorrows in my eyes and your peace in the fingers of my hand.“

—  Malcolm Lowry, book Under the Volcano

Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. XII (p. 346)

„There's nothing happy about having your fate decided for you! You have to grab your own happiness!“

—  Hiro Mashima Japanese manga artist 1977

„You are responsible for all of your successes, and the lack thereof. And that is the essential point that failure, your ever-faithful friend, wants to make: that your failure could not exist without you—without your stupidity, without your lies, without your mistakes, your uselessness, your lack of faith, your ineptitude, your unjustifiable confidence in your alleged abilities, you stupid loser—failure is your only friend. Failure is your only lover. Failure is your only hope.“

—  John S. Hall Poet, author, singer, lawyer 1960

"Failure"
Lyrics, Failure (1998)

„I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.“

—  Jane Austen, book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

„I always thought I was happy being the dark star to your supernova.“

—  Cassandra Clare, book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

„I hope you enjoyed your visit. You never know. You may want to join forever.“

—  Ellen Schreiber American writer 1967

Source: The Coffin Club

„Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.“

—  Katherine Anne Porter American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist 1890 - 1980

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter