Happy Quotes
- “If you want happiness for an hour? Take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day? Go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year? Inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime? Help someone else.”
-Chinese Proverb
- “Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.”
- “Happiness is not always measured in smiles.”
- “Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile Give him yours.”
-Zig Ziglar
- “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
-Aristotle
- “Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.”
-Mildred Barthel
- “There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.”
-Sir John Buchan
- “Success is getting what you want; happiness wants what you get.”
-Dale Carnegie
- “Happiness depends, as Nature shows
less on exterior things than most suppose.”
-William Cowper
- “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good
fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.”
-Benjamin Franklin
- “If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center
of every worthy life.”
-Jack H. Goaslind, Jr.
- “Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever
injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.”
-Oliver Goldsmith
- “The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”
-Eric Hoffer
- “True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.”
-Ben Johnson
- “The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, and give much.
Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and
you will be surprised.”
-H. C. Mattern
- “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”
-John Stuart Mill
- “The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part
of personality and character.”
-William Lyon Phelps
- “Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.”
-Brian Tracy
- “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts....take care that you entertain no notions
unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”
-Marcus Aurelius
- “Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”
- “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every
minute with love, grace and gratitude.”
- Denis Waitley
- “Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.”
- Storm Jameson
- “Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.”
- Don Marquis
- “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.”
- John Barrymore
- “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.”
- Dale Carnegie
- “Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.”
- Robert Anthony
- “On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.”
- William R. Inge
- way of the best happiness.”
- Frederich Nietzsche
- “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”
- Marcel Pagnol
- “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.”
-Thomas Szasz
- “Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized.”
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better:
we find comfort somewhere.”
-Jane Austen
- “Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.”
-Ayn Rand
- “Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”
-Joanne Harris
- “I kept looking for happiness, and then I realized: This is it. It's a moment, and it comes, and it goes, and it'll
come back again. I yearn for things, but at the same time I'm just peaceful.”
-Nicole Kidman
- “As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.”
-Ivan Panin
- “Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.”
–Austin O’Malley
- “Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.”
-D. H. Lawrence
- “God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”
-C. S. Lewis
- “Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.”
-Muhammad Ali
- “The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.”
-Mother Teresa
- “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.”
-Benjamin Franklin
- “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
-Dalai Lama
- “Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.”
-Hafiz of Persia
- “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
-Franklin Roosevelt
- “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
-Dalai Lama
- “Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.”
-Paramhansa Yogananda
- “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.”
-Benjamin Franklin
- “Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.”
-Douglas Jerrold
- “We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy
is something to be enthusiastic about.”
-Charles Kingsley
- “A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.”
- “A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”
-Hugh Downs
- “Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
- “A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and lives worthwhile.”
- “A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it.”
- “Always remember to be happy because you never know who's falling in love with your smile.”
- “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
- Mother Teresa
- “It takes seventeen muscles to smile and forty-three to frown.”
- “Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.”
- Josh Billings
- “The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”
- Mark Twain
- “What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.”
-Yiddish Proverb
- “The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude,
rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.”
–Dalai Lama
- “Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.”
– Democritus
- “True happiness 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.”
–Joseph Addison
- “There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.”
–David Burns
- “In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.”
-Albert Clarke
- “Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.”
-Robert Anthony
- “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”
-Victor Hugo
- “Real Happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.”
– Ballou
- “The best Vitamin to be a happy person is B1.”
- “A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.”
-Seneca
- “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
-Winston Churchill
- “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”
-Dr Seuss
- “A well-spent day brings happy sleep.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
- “Happiness is the feelings of sincerity and power growing.”
-Alexander The Great
- “The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy;
I mean that if you are happy you will be good.”
-Bertrand Russell
- “A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.”
-Henry Ward Beecher
- "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."
-Bertrand Russell
- “Most Folks are about as they make up their minds to be.”
-Abraham Lincoln
- “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.”
–Marcus Aurelius Antonius
- “Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.”
–Lao Tzu
- “Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement
of a difficult task that demanded our best.”
-Theodore Isaac Rubin
- “Happiness in the first place consists in keeping oneself healthy.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
- “It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”
- Agnes Repplier
- “Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.”
-Gretta Brooker Palmer
- “The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”
-William Saroyan
- “Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
-Maxim Gorky
- “Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.”
-William Feather
- “If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.”
-Taisen Deshimaru
- “We don’t laugh because we’re happy, we’re happy because we laugh.”
-William James
- “There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held,
that it never occurs to you to question them.”
– Anthony de Mello
- “We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same.”
<Carlos Castaneda
- “We want to have all parts of ourselves working together, Head, heart, actions, soul and body working in harmony.”
- “The greatest happiness is the resolution of doubt. Why?
Because one is no longer divided in two directions, of two minds.
The mind is now unified and focused.”
- “You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.”
- Bette Davis
- “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.”
-Frederick Keonig
- “Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.”
- Oscar Levant
- “Learn to let go, that is the key to happiness.”
-The Buddha
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