Happiness But Quotes

#1. If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.

Charles Caleb Colton

#2. The bad news is that time is finite, but good news is that it's enough for a life.

Debasish Mridha

#3. Keep in mind that you don't need to be addicted to money in order to acquire it. You can prefer to have money; you will then be able to enjoy whatever money you receive, but your happiness will not be contingent on the size of your bank account.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#4. There was nothing but pain in store for her, yet she cried with happiness and couldn't stop.

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

#5. Though one may acquire much in wealth, fame, or honor, the real joy of life does not lie there but, rather, in keeping the romance of living going. Nothing gives such complete and profound happiness as the perpetually fresh wonder and mystery of exciting life.

Norman Vincent Peale

#6. Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.

Anthony De Mello

#7. We can bring peace in the world, not by eliminating violence in the world, but by finding the causes of violence and by preventing those from infecting the society.

Debasish Mridha

#8. Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.

Victor Hugo

#9. My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded.

Steve Maraboli

#10. I think it's contentment. Where you have everything you ever wanted, all together in one place. It's quieter than excitement, but, [ ... ] maybe it's better.

Heather Anastasiu

#11. Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places.

Milton Berle

#12. William's mother, dead these six years. He spoke of her with love, but without grief. Six years, and whatever the loss, happiness steals back.

Mary Stewart

#13. Happiness then is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world, and these attributes are not severed as in the inscription at Delos-
Most noble is that which is justest, and best is health;
But pleasantest is it to win what we love.

Aristotle.

#14. To sit down on a chair and read my books with all my friends at school is my right. To see each and every human being with a smile of happiness is my wish. I am Malala. My world has changed but I have not.

Malala Yousafzai

#15. Not many are the moments in life, where the easiest choice also happens to be the best one.
Cherish and remember those moments, but do not let them become a habit, for the fruits that hard work reaps are irreplaceable.

Rosen Topuzov

#16. I know some people find the idea of soul mates romantic, or comforting, but to me believing in soul mates means absolving yourself of any responsibility for your own happiness. If a relationship doesn't work out
whoops! It wasn't meant to be. Fuck meant to be.

Anna Jarzab

#17. Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.

Aaron Cohen

#18. I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

Neil Gaiman

#19. I want to maximize my happiness, but I am generally not moved to do what I believe will make me happier than I now am.

Sam Harris

#20. You cannot go back and start a brand new beginning, but today is a new day and you can start a brand new thing.

Debasish Mridha

#21. With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty, which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself everything but health, without which there is no happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

#22. Possession of wealth is not the happiness but expression of gratitude for the possession is the happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#23. Love is a magnetic force, you can't see it, but it can pull you toward the beloved.

Debasish Mridha

#24. the appearances of happiness or unhappiness of the soul are but reflections.

Swami Vivekananda

#25. It is always a foolish thing to contemplate suicide; for no matter how dark the future may appear today, tomorrow may hold for us that which will alter our whole life in an instant, revealing to us nothing but sunshine and happiness. So, for my part, I shall always wait for tomorrow.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#26. The key to happiness is not to get more, but to enjoy what we have and to fill the empty frame of our lives instead of enlarging it.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#27. The human life form vibrates at a certain rate, but all vibratory rates are not suitable for human life. So it's very necessary to meditate on higher octave energy, on the clear light, on joy, on happiness.

Frederick Lenz

#28. Illusory universality is the universality of the art of the culture industry, it is the universality of the homogeneous same, an art which no longer even promises happiness but only provides easy amusement as relief from labour.

J.M. Bernstein

#29. Life, is a chess game you win or loose, but just keep playing.

Auliq Ice

#30. The key to happiness doesn't lay in numbers in a bank account but in the way we make others feel.

Joe Rogan

#31. Happiness lies not in the position, descent, or any property, but, that happiness lies in religion, science, manners, and achieve my goals.

Rifhi Siddiq

#32. Chain of envy linked them, showing each what was lacking in life, but offering also the consolation that happiness was present right next door, in the life of a neighbour, an element of the same society.

Aravind Adiga

#33. ... she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever ...

Jane Austen

#34. Peace is a new father
Searching for a job
With courage and vigor
With a smile and rigor
But with a great need for money.

Debasish Mridha

#35. It isn't important who is going to hurt me, but its important who is going to love me.

Debasish Mridha

#36. If I had my way I'd shut everything out of your life but happiness and pleasure, Anne, said Gilbert

L.M. Montgomery

#37. Education is not an expense, but it is the capital ready to be invested.
The return depends on the wisdom you gained.

Debasish Mridha

#38. At that time I told myself that I didn't want to fall in love ever again. But that night while praying for your happiness Nana, I thought that despite all the wounds and all the pains it could cause I wanted to dream again, and love someone with all my heart.

Ai Yazawa

#39. Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing up against your legs and jumping into your lap.

William J. Bennett

#40. I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#41. happiness is not a place you reach but a state you create.

Robin S. Sharma

#42. You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.

Shah Rukh Khan

#43. But if, through seeking happiness, my deeds are wrong, No matter where I turn my steps, The knives of misery will cut me down, The wage and retribution of a sinful life.

Santideva

#44. Oh, dear child, happiness is a garden, but one has to plant the seed and endure the cold winter.

Zohreh Ghahremani

#45. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness ... but only when you pay your taxes? That means your freedom is rented, leased, & not unalienable.

Steve Maraboli

#46. Peace does not mean an absence of violence or conflict, but it means how we respond to it, with violence or with love and understanding. Hate never can eradicate hate but love can.

Debasish Mridha

#47. Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#48. My life is never perfect, but life is always a beautiful thing. I choose to see the beauty out of it. I choose to make it wonderful. I choose to love life and it loves me back in return. I may only have one life to live, but if I do it right, once is enough.

Diana Rose Morcilla

#49. Man does work for profit in order to enjoy pain; but in a positive sense, he works to enjoy the excitement and meaning that achievement provides for his own psychological growth and thereby his happiness.

Frederick Herzberg

#50. I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour.

Emma Donoghue

#51. That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set.

Robert Neelly Bellah

#52. Your happiness depends on people around you and people you love, but peace of mind you alone can cultivate. Never loose your peace of mind even when unhappy.

Bajju

#53. Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.

Paula McLain

#54. Happiness doesn't come from money and material things, but from the self-expression they can offer you.

Randy Gage

#55. To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.

Mos Def

#56. He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed.

E. M. Forster

#57. Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.

Ben Carson

#58. The feeling or emotion of happiness or joy is always momentary, but it's only your imaginations, that extend your momentary happiness, for some more time.

Roshan Sharma

#59. Have goals, Chase dreams, but do not let your happiness depend on their acheivement.

Manoj Arora

#60. Wealth of a heart is measured not by how much love it received, but by how much it gave away without expectation.

Debasish Mridha

#61. The living are always trying to find the shortcuts to happiness in life. But look what happens when someone achieves premature success: they bloom too early and spend the rest of their lives dying....Success without struggle warps a person.

Susan Wells Bennett

#62. To fall in love is easy,
but forgetting is required to be crazy.

Debasish Mridha

#63. A good poem has rhyming but no ending, it continues to rhyme in our heart.

Debasish Mridha

#64. Beauty might bring happiness, but happiness always brings beauty.

Kevyn Aucoin

#65. I've had happy moments in my life, but I don't think that happiness
being happy
is a perpetual state that anyone can be in. Life isn't that way.

Grace Kelly

#66. Happiness is good for the body, but it is grief which develops the strengths of the mind.

Marcel Proust

#67. The only reasonable goal in life is maximizing your total lifetime experience of something called happiness. That might sound selfish, but it's not. Only a sociopath or a hermit can find happiness through extreme selfishness. A normal person needs to treat others well in order to enjoy life.

Scott Adams

#68. Difference between a successful and an unsuccessful person is not the action but the vision.

Debasish Mridha

#69. Wealth does not always depends on possession, but often depends on perception.

Debasish Mridha

#70. A good lover is a person who knows how to love deeply but never expects any in return.

Debasish Mridha

#71. He had realised that it was Clara he loved, and that he loved her in many different ways. (Because there are even more ways of loving than there are ways of being happy, but it would take another book to explain them all.)

Francois Lelord

#72. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, 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

#73. The world will see the peace when we will understand that there are no enemies but there are friends who don't understand me.

Debasish Mridha

#74. Here is what the scientific research is finding about happiness: we are wired to experience happiness, but we keep hitting the wrong buttons in our efforts to turn our happiness on.

Henry Cloud

#75. You find love, not by looking, but by giving away.

Debasish Mridha

#76. Confusion and suffering may be our birthright, but wisdom and happiness are available.

Sam Harris

#77. WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE.
WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS TO US THAN WHAT HAPPENS TO US.
HAPPINESS DOES NOT DEPEND ON WHAT HAPPENS OUTSIDE OF YOU BUT ON WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE OF YOU.

Marvin J. Ashton

#78. Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

Orson Scott Card

#79. Knowledge is the value of a diamond but wisdom is the beauty and light it reflects.

Debasish Mridha

#80. Life is short but donation of life could have a long life.

Debasish Mridha

#81. God is like a lover. Sometimes he gives you so much pain that staying alive seems like a punishment but in the next moment he shows you so much love, affection and care that you forget all your pains. Yes, the wounds can't be healed completely but god compensates it with other happiness.

Mayank Kashyap

#82. True Happiness is a state of the mind. Things that we acquire can make us momentarily happy but will not give us true freedom from our unhappiness.

Matthew Donnelly

#83. Our spirit is the real part of us, the body but its garment. A man would not find peace at the tailor's because his coat comes from there; neither can the spirit obtain true happiness from the earth just because his body belongs to earth.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#84. Happiness is simply a temporary condition that proceeds unhappiness. Fortunately for us, it works the other way around as well. But it's all a part of the carnival, isn't it?

Federico Fellini

#85. We all have different needs, thoughts, ideas, visions, languages, colors, and creeds, but we all want peace and happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#86. Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.

William D. Hoard

#87. Your path might be a lonely one ... but, you are NOT alone!

Martin R. Lemieux

#88. I'm not sure about 'absolute' happiness, but I am happiest when I go to bed at night knowing that I tried to do my best that day.

Donald Ray Pollock

#89. I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.

Steve Maraboli

#90. We keep waiting for that amazing thing to happen in the future that will be the key to our happiness. But this is it. Right now. Life continues to be a series of right nows. So learn to love right now, and you'll have an amazing life.

Barrie Davenport

#91. I always knew what was most important to me. When I was growing up, nothing was more important than golf, but that's the attitude of a young person who hasn't a care in the world. Later on I figured it out. Family was first. Always. Then golf and business come after.

Arnold Palmer

#92. All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.

Erich Fromm

#93. After I die if I am buried I will rot. If I am burnt I will become ash but if my body is donated I will live to give life and happiness to many."
"Live life after death - pledge to donate your body.

Amit Abraham

#94. True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.

Sakyong Mipham

#95. Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Henry Van Dyke

#96. When something flipping out to the worse, don't feel bad. But be strong and make yourself hard so that the situations stop taking chance to hurt you.

Giridhar Alwar

#97. What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?

Justina Chen

#98. I Might never find that love my heart has always desired, but I know I will succeed before I die.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#99. Thing in good marriage is not happiness but stabilty .

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#100. Sometimes I'm afraid I'm happy, but because I expect it to be something else, I question the experience. So now, when in doubt," she shrugged with true bravado, "I'll assume I'm happy.

Carrie Fisher