“We are each responsible for our own life. If you’re holding anyone else accountable for your happiness, you’re wasting your time. You must be fearless enough to give yourself the love you didn’t receive.” – Oprah Winfrey

“The enjoyment comes from knowing the receiver understands the spirit of the gift.” – Oprah Winfrey

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” – Chuck Palahniuk

“It is not doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.” – J.M. Barrie

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope. – Jane Austen

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius

“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmostphere of quiet that true joy can live.” – Bertrand Russell

“We place a happy life in tranquility of mind.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.” – Desiderius Erasmus

“I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.” – Hunter S. Thompson