Top 100 For Happiness Quotes
#1. I didn't intend 'Hector' to be a self-help book when I first started writing. I wrote it as a little tale about a psychiatrist, like me, who sets off around the world in order to discover the vital ingredients for happiness.
Francois Lelord
#2. One way to express choice is through the market. Well-functioning markets provide choices and, ultimately, the ability to express one's pursuit for happiness.
Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin
#3. They taught me that all life forms are important to each other in our common quest for happiness and survival. That there is more to life than just yourself, your own family, or your own kind.
Lawrence Anthony
#5. When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world?
Oprah Winfrey
#6. A person with a flexible schedule and average resources will be happier than a rich person who has everything except a flexible schedule. Step one in your search for happiness is to continually work toward having control of your schedule.
Scott Adams
#7. We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.
Joseph Joubert
#8. He wanted a woman to hope for happiness through all the pain. Deep, soul-searing pain was his kink.
Pepper Winters
#9. There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
Denis Diderot
#10. My search for happiness ends at your Smiling Face because I know, nothing else in the world can make me Happier.
Anmol Rawat
#11. One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.
Alan Bennett
#12. As for suffering I do not wish even the slightest; as for happiness I am never satisfied. In this, there is no difference between others and me. Bless me so I may take joy in others' happiness.
Dalai Lama XIV
#13. For women, the important ingredients for happiness are to forge an identity, serve the Lord, get an education, develop your talents, serve your family, and, if possible, to have a family of your own.
James E. Faust
#14. Nietzsche, in a rare moment of deep stillness, wrote, For happiness, how little suffices for happiness! ... the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a wisk, an eye glance - little maketh up the best happiness. Be still.
Eckhart Tolle
#15. We find what we are looking for in life, her father had once said to her, which was true
if you look for happiness, you will see it; if you look for distrust and envy and hatred
all those things
you will find those too.
Alexander McCall Smith
#16. Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
Norman Douglas
#17. All beings wish for happiness, so extend your compassion to all.
Gautama Buddha
#18. If we were never depressed we would not be alive - - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. Whenever you examine yourself, take into your capacity for depression,
Oswald Chambers
#20. Those of us committed to a queer life know that forms of recognition are either precariously conditional, you have to be the right kind of queer by depositing your hope for happiness in the right places (even with perverse desire you can have straight aspirations), or it is simply not given.
Sara Ahmed
#21. Many search for happiness as we look for a hate we wear on our heads.
Nikolaus Lenau
#22. You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
John Mayer
#23. The sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness. Bodily health, material wealth and companions and friends are three factors for happiness. Contentment is the key that will determine the outcome of your relations with all three of these factors.
Dalai Lama XIV
#24. Laugh and smile for no reason at all. Giggle grins are a magnet for happiness.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#25. If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and success.
Zig Ziglar
#26. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen
#27. Very few people know where to look for happiness; fewer still find it.
W. Somerset Maugham
#28. The only interesting philosophers are the ones who have stopped thinking and have begun to search for happiness.
Emil Cioran
#29. Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
Immanuel Kant
#30. When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#31. Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
Louise Hart
#32. I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
Kanye West
#33. For happiness, how little suffices for happiness! ... the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a wisk, an eye glance - little maketh up the best happiness. Be still.4
Eckhart Tolle
#34. No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important to acquire peace of mind and serenity.
Og Mandino
#35. All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
Daniel Boone
#36. Many people strive for success in order to find happiness when, in fact, the inverse is true. Strive for happiness and you shall find success.
Steve Maraboli
#37. This gets into a fundamental change in how marriage is viewed. Today we see getting married as finding a life partner. Someone we love. But this whole idea of marrying for happiness and love is relatively new.
Aziz Ansari
#38. We ask for happiness but what we get is unhappiness. We all put our efforts into trying to be happy but we make a fundamental mistake: happiness is not related to the effort, happiness is related to not asking for it ...
Rajneesh
#39. Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#40. Maybe there is a chance for happiness after all, despite my online slutdom and psychopathic urges.
Alessandra Torre
#41. Love is essential for happiness, but the person who loves so deeply that his or her happiness is placed entirely in the hands of another, resembles the little lamb who crept into the den of the nice, gentle little wolf and begged to be permitted to lie down and go to sleep, or the canary
Napoleon Hill
#42. I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.
Suge Knight
#43. All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.
Meher Baba
#44. My formula for happiness is to have no formula for happiness.
Marty Rubin
#45. I cried, for happiness, for sadness, but most of all, for emptiness.
Daul Kim
#46. There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.
Rene Descartes
#47. Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.
Oliver Burkeman
#48. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
Arthur Rubinstein
#49. Drink not from this cup unless you forget the past and the future, for happiness is naught but the moment." And
Kahlil Gibran
#50. We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.
Jillian Michaels
#51. I've lost someone, too. And there were no rules for how to deal with the death of someone you loved. You had to accept that the loss would always stay with you, like a reminder note pinned to the inside of your jacket. But there were still opportunities for happiness. Even joy.
Lisa Kleypas
#52. When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
Alice Hegan Rice
#53. So far as laws and institutions avail, men should have equality of opportunity for happiness; that is, of education, wealth, power. These make happiness secure. An equal diffusion of happiness so far as laws and institutions avail.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#54. My purpose of life is sweet indeed.
I like to help people when in need.
I am longing for happiness.
I am expressing my kindness.
I am expressing my love every day.
I am compassionate all the way.
Debasish Mridha
#55. He braced himself for happiness like he'd never known in his entire life.
Sandra Brown
#56. No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary Shelley
#57. A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.
Maria Edgeworth
#58. Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#59. You are only excused for happiness and success if you generously agree to share them. But if one is to be happy, one should not worry too much about other people - which means there is no way out.
Happy and judged or absolved and miserable.
Albert Camus
#60. Serve others. The failing recipe for happiness and success is to want the good of others.
Desmond Tutu
#61. Action for Happiness encourages each of us to live more compassionately and put the happiness of others at the centre of our lives. This is the path to lasting peace and happiness
Dalai Lama
#62. One day, in your search for happiness, you discover a partner by your side, and you realize that your happiness has come to help you search.
Robert Breault
#63. The glitter of the great world, you know, is only so much froth and spume: you may look in vain for happiness there.
Jude Morgan
#64. You will meet happiness on your way if you just stop looking for happiness desperately! Live your life without looking for anything!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#65. If you walk with true awareness of every step, without having a goal to get anywhere, happiness will arise naturally. You don't need to look for happiness.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#66. that life was full of small comforts which were all the time making for happiness, and that we did not sufficiently appreciate them.
Katrina Avilla Munichiello
#67. If you are constantly searching for happiness, you'll never find it.
Eraldo Banovac
#69. The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions.
Lee L Jampolsky
#70. Everyone can relate to the story of fighting for happiness.
Lilly Singh
#71. I don't understand why when I wish for happiness it inevitably rains. However, I do tend to find myself grateful for sunlight once the storm ceases.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#72. People are bound to get hurt in our journey for happiness.
E.K. Blair
#73. I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.
P.D. James
#74. There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.
Mary Balogh
#75. Well, you get my point: You've go one life with zero guarantees, so you do your best, adapt if possible, and keep on breathing. I recommend striving for happiness, but many opt for duty and responsibility. Mileage varies.
Beth Harbison
#76. When two people love each other sacrificially, they will find happiness. If they aim for happiness instead of aiming to love, they will ultimately fail to achieve either.
Sheila Wray Gregoire
#77. I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there either.
Edward Young
#78. When you're Happy for No Reason, you bring happiness to your outer experiences rather than trying to extract happiness from them. You don't need to manipulate the world around you to try to make yourself happy. You live from happiness, rather than for happiness.
Marci Shimoff
#79. We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we belong; we need to be able to get support, and just as important for happiness, to give support. We need many kinds of relationships; for one thing, we need friends.
Gretchen Rubin
#80. anyone who looks for happiness from external events is destined to be unhappy much of the time.
Patrick Ussher
#81. The search for happiness is more important than the need for pain.
Paulo Coelho
#82. I put in no claims either for happiness, for gratification, or even for the common comforts of life: yet, surely, I had a right to exist!
Mary Hays
#83. We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.
Nhat Hanh
#84. In their vain quest for happiness, they only succeed in rendering it more inaccessible not only for themselves, but for everybody else.
Luis E. Navia
#85. The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
Bryant H. McGill
#86. One's capacity for friendship, which can be developed, is basic to one's capacity for happiness.
Maxwell Maltz
#88. Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.
Tim Ferriss
#89. Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence.
Leo Tolstoy
#90. It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.
Sebastian Barry
#91. A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
#92. The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others.
Paulo Coelho
#93. Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.
Robert Harris
#94. Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
Blaise Pascal
#95. Time grabs you by the scruff of your neck and drags you forward. You get over it, of course. Everyone was right about that. One mathematically insignificant day, you stop hoping for happiness and become actually happy.
Sloane Crosley
#96. Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
Andre Gide
#97. I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.
Vanessa Paradis
#98. People are made for happiness. Rightly, then, you thirst for happiness. Christ has the answer to this desire of yours. But he asks you to trust him.
Pope John Paul II
#99. Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary.
Jack H. Goaslind
#100. And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
Aeschylus
