Happiness Quotes

Happiness Quotes

"Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do, but from liking what we have to do."

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

"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. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

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

"Happiness is an inside job."

"Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness."

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."

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

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

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

"Happiness is a form of courage."

"Every now and then,

when the world sits just right,

a gentle breath of heaven

fills my soul with delight..."

"Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower."

"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."

"A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness."

"The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances."

"Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections."

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

"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."

"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."

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

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

"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be."

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

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

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

"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."

Happy Quotes

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

"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."

"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."

"There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier."

"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."

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

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy in the next."

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

"Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man."

"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Quotes About Happiness

"Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind."

"Money cannot buy happiness."

"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"

"Being nice is one of many bridges on the road to Happiness."

"Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise."

"If you want to be happy, be."

"One joy scatters a hundred griefs."

"Happiness is never stopping to think if you are."

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

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time."

"There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way."

"Joy is a flower that blooms when you do."

"Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."

"Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy."

"The happy have whole days,

and those they choose.

The unhappy have but hours,

and those they lose."

"You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness."

Quotes On Happiness

"Gratefulness is the key to a happy life, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more."

"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."

"If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy;

but we want to be happier than other people,

and that is almost always difficult,

since we think them happier than they are. "

"Everyone wants to be happy and nobody wants to feel pain, But you can't make rainbows without any rain."

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery."

"You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness."

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

"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

"Happiness is like a sunset of God -- it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it."

"Happiness and peace is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony with the will of God."

"A happy thought is like a seed that sows positivity for all to reap."

"Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own."

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

"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."

"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."

"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."

Happy Quotes About Life

"Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder ..."

"Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it."

"When all your desires are distilled

You will cast just two votes:

To love more, And be happy."

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.

Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.

Hatred darkens life; love illumines it."

"Success is not the key to happiness.

Happiness is the key to success.

If you love what you do, you will be successful."

"The grand essentials of happiness are:

something to do,

something to love, and

something to hope for."

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

"The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have."

"Hope is itself a species of happiness,

and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords."

"To the woman who complained that riches hadn't made her happy, the Master said "You speak as if luxury and comfort were ingredients of happiness;

whereas all you need to be really happy, my dear,

is something to be enthusiastic about."

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

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.

Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

"Action may not always bring happiness,

but there is no happiness without action."