Happiness Quotes

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."

"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."

"Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go."

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?"

"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness."

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

"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."

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

"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."

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

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

"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."

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

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

"Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness."

"There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy."

"The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past."

"Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product."

"It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness."

"Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable."

"Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."

"True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it."

"If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem."

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"

"Love is trembling happiness."

"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony."

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."

"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."

"Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them."

"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all."

"You can be happy where you are."

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."

"An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves."

"Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels."

"A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else."

"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."

"Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing."

"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life."

"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."

"Happiness is an inside job."

"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness."

"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love."

"Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted."

"Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens."

"There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness."

"Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are."

"Never mind your happiness do your duty."

"You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness."

"Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination."

"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself."

"All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin."

"You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace."

"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness."

"Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another."

"I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."

"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us."

"Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity."

"Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness."

"It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy."

"When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness."

"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."

"Happiness is having a scratch for every itch."

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens."

"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

"If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved."

"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."

"Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable."

"Happiness is a direction, not a place."

"Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness."

"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice."

"Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness."

"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed."

"Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails."

"Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it."

"Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude."

"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."

"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us."

"To describe happiness is to diminish it."

"Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way."

"Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life."

"If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world."

"Desire is individual. Happiness is common."

"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."

"Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse."

"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness."

"Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates."

"People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness."

"Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind."

"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward."

"Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled."

"Happiness seems made to be shared."

"There is only one passion, the passion for happiness."

"The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."

"Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself."

"Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye."

"Happiness does not consist in self-love."

"Growth itself contains the germ of happiness."

"To buy happiness is to sell soul."

"Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be."

"Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided."

"Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life."

"Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness."

"We possess only the happiness we are able to understand."

"How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success."

"If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness."

"To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something."

"We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier."

"The right to happiness is fundamental."

"Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men."

"The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable."

"There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so."

"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness."

"Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning."

"So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some."

"Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow."

"The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number."

"There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow."

"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."

"If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy."

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

"The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."

"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."

"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul."

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy."

"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants."

"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it."

"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."

"But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes."

"I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true."

"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."

"Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."

"Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness."

"True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents."

"Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment."

"No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it."

"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own."

"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."

"God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there."

"It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."

"Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery."

"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."

"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

"Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness."

"Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."

"There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself."

"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing."

"Independence is happiness."

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."

"I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it."

"Happiness can exist only in acceptance."

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."

"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think."

"There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease."

"The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it."

"A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him."

"The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift."

"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something."

"Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness."

"Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle."

"Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory."

"The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."

"Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class."

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get."

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service."

"We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery."

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."

"The happiness of society is the end of government."

"The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there."

"Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops."

"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."

"The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping ."

"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."

"The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible."

"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves."

"God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness."

"The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open."

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."

"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."

"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."

"Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money."

"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken."

"I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite."

"Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race."

"It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit."

"What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree."

"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years."

"Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations."

"Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men."

"A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose."

"The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion."

"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

"Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness."

"I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness."

"Where fear is, happiness is not."

"To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it."

"How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure."

"Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy."

"If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give."

"Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."

"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."

"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness."

"Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone."

"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."

"Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know."

"My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations."

"Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result."

"When ambition ends, happiness begins."

"If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it."

"Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth."

"Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?"

"A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings."

"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts."

"Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war."

"Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object."

"Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination."

"Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her."

"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it."

"Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment."

"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five."

"When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection."

"The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency."

"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done."

"We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration."

"A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted."

"Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible."

"The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery."

"While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure."

"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised."

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."

"The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune."

"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."

"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend."

"No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy — it is all that matters."

"Happiness is not a destination, it is a way of life."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you did not know you left open."

"The only joy in the world is to begin."

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day."

"Happiness is a warm puppy."

"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."

"If you want to be happy, be."