Happiness Quotes

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

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.

Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

I've decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool photograph. Things should look right. Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary.

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

Why not be happy after a while? You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to get happy.

If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

It is an aspect of happiness to suppose we all deserve it.

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

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Your primary goal should be to have a great life. You can still have a good day, enjoy your child, and ultimately find happiness, whether your ex is acting like a jerk or a responsible person. Your happiness is not dependent upon someone else.

Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.

Joy is not a commodity to be hoarded and protected. It is like a muscle. It must be used daily to keep strong and vigorous. For all my hardships, I have been able to remain quite joyful, for my muscles are strong.

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

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

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

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

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

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.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

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

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

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 paradise in a few years.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

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

It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

The surest way of spoiling a pleasure is to start examining your satisfaction.

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

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

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

Happiness consists in activity. It is running stream, not a stagnant pool.

Some men would rather pursue happiness than obtain it.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.

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

People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you, and be happy.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Start off every day with a smile and get it over with.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much.

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.

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness.

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

Happiness is so hard to define and foolish to define. Am I acting? That's the worst thing you can ask yourself. You can be happy suddenly. It can spring on you, not when you reach a plateau. You can be happy going backward or going down. You can be happy at the loss of something.

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.

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

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

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

As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

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