Top 100 Happiness Choices Quotes
#1. Much certainly of the happiness and purity of our lives depends on our making a wise choice of our companions and friends. If our friends are badly chosen they will inevitably drag us down; if well they will raise us up.
Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury
#2. Success and happiness are not matters of chance but choice.
Zig Ziglar
#3. Risk the stuff. It's worthless anyway. But don't make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.
Steve Pavlina
#4. I finally understood what true love meant ... love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.
Nicholas Sparks
#5. Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced.
Steve Maraboli
#6. The path to happiness at work starts with a simple decision: You must want to be happy. If you don't commit to being happy at work, you won't be. You won't make the choices that make you happy. You won't take the actions needed to get there. You won't change the things that need to change.
Alexander Kjerulf
#8. The Kindly Ones would say it didn't matter. And maybe they were right. We still could have snatched happiness from our tragedy if we had made the right choices, the right wishes. If we had been kinder, braver, purer. If only we had been anything but what we were.
Rosamund Hodge
#9. When we spend time in silence, we can hear the voice of our soul whispering its sacred message and encouraging us to make choices that bring us more happiness, health, love, meaning, and peace.
David Simon
#10. The species or nature with which we make our choices is fallen, sinful, selfish, and stupid; and we cannot by our own power attain the deepest and final end of our desires, union with God, eternal happiness. Thus,
Peter Kreeft
#11. Happiness will never invite you to the party. Happiness simply comes down to a choice to show up each and every day on the world with passion, purpose, place and meaning.
Lisa Cypers Kamen
#12. There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom and love, it's the right choice.
Angeles Arrien
#13. Life is a treasure-chest of opportunities, choices, and time. Unfortunately, the choice many people make is to argue about the details of the chest instead of seizing the treasure within it.
Steve Maraboli
#14. 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
#15. Happiness does not depend on your circumstances; it depends on your will. It's a choice that you make.
Joel Osteen
#16. The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose is to guide our choices toward life, health, beauty, happiness, fun, laughter, challenge, and learning.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#17. Happiness is always a choice. You can't wait for circumstances to get better. You have to create your own good fortune. So look for ways to be happy every day.
Joel Osteen
#18. Every time you post something online you have a choice. You can either make it something that adds to the happiness levels in the world-or you can make it something that takes away.
Zoe Sugg
#19. There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose - if you embrace it you become one with it and you'll be lived.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#20. The right to "liberty" and "pursuit" of happiness is incompatible with a government that makes choices for you.
A.E. Samaan
#21. The truths of the gospel do not change. If you will follow the Christ, follow his prophet, and follow his Spirit, you will always choose the right. As a result of your wise choices, your testimony will grow stronger, and great blessings of joy, happiness, and peace will be yours.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#22. You have a choice. A life of lonely regret or happiness with some pain along the way.
You choose.
Melissa Nathan
#23. Life is worth more than man will ever know. Each of our choices open up the possibility of a different world. Every time we wake up, the universe puts itself in our hands. So many paths. So many choices. Our discernment is the only way to tell which one leads to happiness.
Thierry Cohen
#24. I think about my own daily choices every day in terms of how to find happiness.
Nathan Fillion
#25. Our love for our Father in Heaven and the Lord Jesus Christ needs to be reflected in our daily choices and actions. They have promised peace, joy, and happiness to those who keep Their commandments.
M. Russell Ballard
#26. But this same dilemma comes up again and again in our own lives, and often we don't choose so wisely. The inverted-U curve reminds us that there is a point at which money and resources stop making our lives better and start making them worse.
Malcolm Gladwell
#28. Happiness, most often, is a choice. Make the choice to sit, breathe, and be in that moment.
Cathy Lamb
#29. Happiness is a choice I am making now. Once we understand that and find love consciousness, we learn that this place of internal plenitude needs nothing.
Isha Judd
#31. Education equals choices. I have been blessed with the choice to be anything I ever wanted to be, and I truly owe my happiness to my family and education.
Aimee Garcia
#32. Less is more. Happiness is found close to the necessities of life, not in needless complexity and meaningless multiplicity of choice.
Peter Dale Scott
#33. I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.
Dean Koontz
#34. In every moment we are faced with choices that will serve our highest intentions, or gratify our unconscious desires.
Dashama Konah Gordon
#35. There are many roads,
there are many choices,
but never forget to chose the road of peace and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#36. It was one thing to stay in one place If you were happy and fulfilled- that was simply living the good life. But what if you weren't fulfilled?
Syrie James
#37. When love and duty are one then grace is within your soul.
Shannon L. Alder
#38. Sometimes I think if we didn't have these problems the whole world would stop spinning on her axis, we'd all stop spinning on our axises, axes, or whatever you want to call them, and then we'd have to settle into the nasty business of finding a way to be happy.
Daniel Clausen
#39. In Deuteronomy 11, God offers Israel a choice; either a life of productivity and enjoyment made possible by obedience to Him, or a life of difficulty and opposition made necessary by disobedience. The happiness Israel desires can only be theirs by being properly related to Him.
Max Anders
#40. You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.
Leo Buscaglia
#41. Blaming is so much easier than taking responsibility, because if you take responsibility ... then you might be to blame.
Jennifer O'Neill
#42. Through my choices and actions, I have learned the most effective way of speaking to God is without saying a word.
Steve Maraboli
#43. The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#44. If You're Not Happy, You Can Become Happy. Happiness Is a Choice.
Jennifer Aniston
#45. I do believe in choice, the freedom of choice and carving out your own happiness.
Sandra Bullock
#46. HAPPINESS is not a destiny, it's a choice.
Seiji Kaneko
#47. Happiness is a hundred choices. A thousand choices. A million choices. All day long. Every day. Every week. Every year of your life.
Lisbeth Darsh
#48. Perhaps in the pursuit of happiness, men and women take somewhat different paths. And, isn't it more than a little patronizing to suggest that most ... women are not free? They're not self-determining human beings?
Christina Hoff Sommers
#49. Happiness is the DNA of pleasure. My point is simply this: Pleasure comes from something on the outside. Happiness comes from within. It's a state you create by choice. It's a decision. It's an act of will.
Robin Sharma
#50. I can't walk beside you for reasons of my own, but everytime you cross my mind, I send love to you, you know.
Nikki Rowe
#51. Choose to do more than just exist; choose to live.
Steve Maraboli
#53. Happiness is a conscious choice we make for ourselves. It has to come from within.
Beau Sides
#54. We wonder what true happiness would be like. Not realizing that one simple thought connected to our hearts can make the difference between us wondering and experiencing it.
Monica Dumont
#55. Gratitude is a choice. Happiness is an attitude.
Amy Chan
#56. Happiness is actually an individual choice, even in the midst of negative circumstances. It's not something our employers can give to us, though they can limit and influence that choice.
Shawn Achor
#57. Happiness is a conditioning of the mind and body so that happiness is totally within the way you perceive things and handle situations in life. You choose to be happy; happiness doesn't choose you. - Charmainism
Charmaine Smith Ladd
#58. If you want to be happy you have to work to make it happen. You can't just wish for it and you can't put it in the hands of other people.
Michael Buckley
#59. Happiness is the best revenge, you know? Just be happy. It's a choice.
Emily Giffin
#60. We should learn to smile as we fall,
So much so as when we have it all.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#61. It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities; there can only be submissive wearing of the cords that others have tied round our hands.
Auberon Herbert
#62. One of the biggest favors that you can do for yourself is to accept your loved ones for who they are, and not be constantly disappointed because they are not who you think they should be.
Jennifer O'Neill
#63. From what might appear to you to be small choices, the Lord will lead you to the happiness you want. Through your choices He will be able to bless countless others.
Henry B. Eyring
#64. To be mindful entails examining the path we are traveling & making choices that alleviate suffering & bring happiness to ourselves & those around us.
Allan Lokos
#65. Happiness can be woven into every aspect of life once you make new choices.
Deepak Chopra
#66. When you forgive those that hurt you, they no longer have control over your future happiness. Their anger keeps them a prisoner to your past, while you enjoy the present.
Shannon L. Alder
#67. I sold the collection because I finally understood what true love really meant. Tim had told me-and shown me-that love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be. - John Tyree
Nicholas Sparks
#68. Freedom? That's easy. It's in your choices. Happiness? That's easy. It's in your choices. Respect of your peers? That too is in the choices you make.
Ryan Holiday
#69. 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
#70. We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.
Arthur Golden
#71. To me, ultimate happiness is a journey, not a destination. It's not somewhere you end up, it's making choices every day to make yourself happy.
Lizzie Velasquez
#72. You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don't like yourself, you'll never be truly happy.
Taylor Swift
#74. How to be happy starts with self love, being proud of who you are and making happiness a daily choice.
Robert Moment
#75. Happiness is a choice. You have to choose it - and you have to fight for it.
Drew Barrymore
#76. Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.
Ralph Marston
#78. I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup.
Drew Barrymore
#79. Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain ... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
Kevyn Aucoin
#80. I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.
Brittany Murphy
#81. Happiness is your choice to make. How happy or how miserable do you want to be?
Edgar Cayce
#82. A responsible person accepts the results of his choices, attributing blame or praise to himself; that is what makes you happy with the way you turned out.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#83. Happiness is boundlessly weird. Other people's choices often seem to delight them, where I would run screaming.
Nick Harkaway
#84. Hmm. I think love is about loving all things, to treat each and every thing and every one as a sovereign being that's free to make its own choices.
Michael Sanders
#85. You have to take an active role in making yourself happy. That's why I say happiness is a choice. Because you have to choose it.
Shay Carl
#86. Contentment is a state of happiness and satisfaction. The choices we make are our own decisions for how we want to live our life.
Ellen J. Barrier
#87. Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile. While we do control our choice of action, we cannot control the consequences of our choices.
Stephen R. Covey
#88. Today is the day to stop, look around, realize where you are in relation to where you want to be, change direction if needed and move forward with faith in God and in yourself.
Toni Sorenson
#89. Blaze your own trail in life. Make your own choices and make your own mistakes. It's the only way you'll find your own happiness, not someone else's.
M. Leighton
#90. Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.
Dennis E. Adonis
#92. you create your own happiness by the choices you make. If you rely completely on others, you'll never have it, at least not in the true sense of happiness.
Florence Osmund
#93. I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
Epictetus
#94. Be open about your thoughts, ideas, and desires and you will be right with your decisions.
Auliq Ice
#95. Before you make a decision, ask yourself this question: will you regret the results or rejoice in them?
Rob Liano
#96. When your sense of self and happiness comes from within and isn't a roller coaster ride dependent on others or circumstances, you approach life differently. You make better choices. You draw to you the people and situations that matter. The others, they fall away.
Kamal Ravikant
#97. Happiness can be reached by choice and how you look at life.
Taylor Swift
#98. Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
Russell Simmons
#99. It is not logical that millions of modern adults and children around the world are suddenly becoming insulin resistant
John M. Poothullil
#100. We tend to Seek Happiness when Happiness is actually a Choice
Rodney White