I don't think we set and achieve goals in an effort to become happy. We do it because we are happy and want to expand our happiness

Have big goals — but don’t tie your happiness to your goals. You must be happy before you attain them.

If you want to be happy, be!

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Plain living and high thinking should be your goal. Learn to carry all the conditions of happiness within yourself by meditating and attuning your consciousness to the ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new Joy, which is God. Your happiness should never be subject to any outside influence. Whatever your environment is, don't allow your inner peace be touched by it.

Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people.

Try to be happy, if only for the purpose of setting an example

We should try to be happy, just to set an example

The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them

The purpose of our lives is to be happy

All I've got to be is be happy

Make sure you know what makes you happy, and don’t forget it.

Learn to love, enjoy and embrace what you have in the here and now. That's all you really need to be happy.

Normally pleasure is never the goal of human strivings but rather is, and must remain, an effect, more specifically, the side effect of attaining a goal. Attaining the goal constitutes a reason for being happy. In other words, if there is a reason for happiness, happiness ensues, automatically and spontaneously, as it were. And that is why one need not pursue happiness, one need not care for it once there is a reason for it. Figure 3 But, even more, one cannot pursue it. To the extent to which one makes happiness the objective of his motivation, he necessarily makes it the object of his attention. But precisely by so doing he loses sight of the reason for happiness, and happiness itself must fade away.