Top 100 Happiness Finding Quotes
#2. 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
#3. A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!
Guy De Maupassant
#5. 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
#6. Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
E. M. Forster
#7. My home will never be a place, but a state of mind, which I find through my music.
Charlotte Eriksson
#8. Life is not always about happy endings. Sometimes it's about finding happiness in the ending you get.
Chip Rossetti
#9. My best advice for finding inner happiness is to reach outside yourself, to use your talents and brains and personality to make life better for someone else.
Nick Vujicic
#10. Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.
Marion Milner
#11. Happiness finds its way to those who have their doors open. Don't shut the door on its face and complain of never finding it.
Mansi Soni
#12. The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.
Ruth Reichl
#13. Many of us place top priority not on becoming Christ like in the middle of our problems but on finding happiness ... I must firmly and consciously by an act of my will reject the goal of becoming happy and adopt the goal of becoming more like the Lord ...
Larry Crabb
#14. The truth is that finding happiness in what you do every day is so imperative.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#15. I think it's our job to be happy and find happiness for ourselves.
Guy Branum
#16. Figure out what makes you laugh, and do more of it. Figure out what makes you cry, and do less of it.
Mandy Hale
#17. Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.
Thomas S. Monson
#18. Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change.
Atul Purohit
#19. Buddhism is not a religion, but rather a way to finding happiness.
Gyalwa Dokhampa
#20. Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.
Democritus
#21. Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It's your heart that will really keep you on tack ... and nourished along the way.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#22. Your problems will keep coming and going. It is in your interest to deal with them with equanimity and focus on finding happiness in whatever you do. Be the kind of person who says about problems - this too shall pass, and about happiness - it is my constant companion.
Lamees Alhassar
#23. Happiness does not mean being free from problems and trials, but finding purpose in problems and trials can result in abundant happiness.
Hank Smith
#24. The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future well-being.
Virginia Postrel
#25. In a world as weird and cruel as this one we have made for ourselves, I figure anybody who can find peace and personal happiness without ripping off somebody else deserves to be left alone.
Hunter S. Thompson
#26. Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are ... and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth.
Mandy Hale
#27. Finding peace and happiness is a journey you need to take, there is no quick fix
Sandra Shamas
#28. The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
Ramana Maharshi
#29. I've learnt that love isn't about our place at the centre of it, but about finding the generosity to allow those we care about to discover happiness wherever they so choose, with whomever they so desire , even if - for whatever reason - that isn't with us.
Hannah Beckerman
#30. I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
Taylor Swift
#32. Life is about the good and the bad. Good is easy. Bad is hard. Finding a way to make good from the bad is the secret. The few who discover the ability within themselves
nothing can stand in their way of happiness.
Landon Parham
#33. There's much talk in popular culture about finding
happiness - as though if you aren't grinning ear to
ear 24 hours a day you're somehow missing out on
life.
Rachel C. Weingarten
#34. Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it.
Pema Chodron
#35. Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.
Charles M. Schulz
#36. True religion ... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
William J.H. Boetcker
#37. The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#38. 'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.
Kacy Hill
#39. Happiness doesn't come from getting what you want. It doesn't come from within, either. Happiness comes from *between*
from finding the right relationship between yourself and others, between yourself and your work, and between yourself and something larger than yourself.
Jonathan Haidt
#40. If you are never the cause of someone's sadness, you will never have difficulties finding happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#41. I think about my own daily choices every day in terms of how to find happiness.
Nathan Fillion
#42. he came to realize a simple truth: Working right trumps finding the right work. He didn't need to have a perfect job to find occupational happiness - he needed instead a better approach to the work already available to him.
Cal Newport
#43. Catherine [ ... ] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.
Jane Austen
#44. If someone asked for my recipe for happiness, step one would be finding out what you love most in the world and step two would be finding someone to pay you to do it. I consider myself very lucky indeed to be able to support myself by writing.
J.K. Rowling
#45. If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.
Kate DiCamillo
#47. Getting even with the person that broke your heart will never give you peace. The only thing that will heal your wounds is believing that God loves you enough to bring someone else into your life to respect you and love you in the way you deserve!
Shannon L. Alder
#48. I think life isn't about age.It's about finding things that make you happy,that fulfill you,at every single stage of your life.
Lindsay Detwiler
#49. It's always best to feel fulfilled first, before finding a man. Then you'll know the value of yourself, and you'll hold the key to your own happiness. So you won't turn into a vulnerable, needy, emotional mess the minute you fall in love.
Menna Van Praag
#50. Both of you think happiness is this thing you have to chase after, like a child with a shiny toy. It won't happen until you start finding ways to take care of other people instead of ways to please yourself.
Lisa Kleypas
#51. There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
Frederick William Faber
#52. I think the difference between finding happiness, or moments of happiness, is how you choose to interpret things. That's a rather shocking responsibility. That we're responsible for our own happiness. It's not those around us.
Natascha McElhone
#53. If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you.
Ernie J Zelinski
#54. Children are happy because they have the power of finding happiness in the simplest things.
Debasish Mridha
#55. She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy.
I do have a knack for finding great women.
Craig Ferguson
#56. Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.
Mario Batali
#57. There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
Zygmunt Bauman
#59. We tell ourselves that the more time we have at our disposal, the more opportunity we will have of finding greater happiness. But again we are looking to the future, to the times we will create. Again we miss the enjoyment of the present moment.
Russell Peters
#61. I love Thich Nhat Hahn. One of my favorite quotes of his (and I'm paraphrasing), he's talking about cultivating happiness, and he was saying, at the very least, just be happy you're not at the dentist right now. He was talking to someone who was having a really hard time finding joy.
Moby
#62. It's hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.
Shawn Achor
#63. 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
#64. The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#65. I think if we want to find happiness by finding a life partner, then it's a little selfish. You should be complete within yourself, so that when you're in a relationship, you can give out happiness rather than expect it.
Shahid Kapoor
#66. I think the difference between being miserable and finding happiness is just a matter of perspective. If you live your life defining yourself by what other people think of you, it's a form of self-torture.
Sarah Silverman
#67. Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous!
Nelson Rodrigues
#68. I think success is finding happiness! Everyone certainly has different goals in life, and things that are important to them, and also things that are not important to them.
Meryl Davis
#69. We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul.
Shannon L. Alder
#70. Happiness wasn't something you found, happiness was something you made-by living in the moment, by cherishing the people in your life right now, by finding the courage to change those things you didn't like.
Laura Kaye
#71. As you take steps to expand your awareness, you will naturally find yourself harnessing your mind's infinite power to create greater health, happiness, and love in your life.
Deepak Chopra
#72. Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
#73. Life wasn't for the timid. It was harsh and it was biting.
But the one thing that made it bearable was the people you cared for. It was finding that light in the darkness. That peace in hell.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#74. Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.
Orson Scott Card
#76. My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother's voice and smile.
Jennifer Garner
#77. He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search.
Confucius
#78. Peace means the way of finding the inner calmness, tranquility and joy, in the midst of conflicts and injustice.
Debasish Mridha
#79. Women's eyes are rapid in detecting a heart which is ill at ease with itself, and, knowing the value of sympathy, and finding their own greatest happiness not in receiving it, but in giving it, with them to be unhappy is at once to be interesting.
James Anthony Froude
#80. You were said to have died of suffering. But you died because you searched for happiness at the risk of finding the void.
Edouard Leve
#81. We're just trying to find happiness in the bodies and minds we were given, like everyone else.
Ellen DeGeneres
#82. As Thomas Jefferson said, "Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of not finding one of your parents in a naked clench."That's not what he said? Well, he definitely should have
Laurel Ulen Curtis
#83. Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.
Terry Goodkind
#84. Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.
Johnny Carson
#85. Happiness lies not in finding what is missing,
but in finding what is present.
Tara Brach
#86. My advice for life: dance and sing your song while the party is still on.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#87. Tragedy may hit all of us in one way or another, but fate's not our enemy, Brooke. We are. By locking yourself away from the world, you choose your own mistakes and destroy any chance of ever finding happiness. You cannot control life, but you can chose who you are and what you make of it.
J.C. Reed
#88. The best kind of happiness is a habit you're passionate about.
Shannon L. Alder
#89. When sorrow knocks at your door, tell it you're busy finding happiness.
Saru Singhal
#90. A man finds love and is satisfied. A woman finds love and insists on turning it into happiness.
Robert Breault
#91. I spoke of my desire of finding a friend, of my thirst for a more intimate sympathy with a fellow mind than had ever fallen to my lot, and expressed my conviction that a man could boast of little happiness who did not enjoy this blessing.
Mary Shelley
#92. Happiness comes from striving to make tomorrow better than today and being at peace when yesterday was better than today as well.
Dan Pearce
#93. The key to finding happiness in this life is realizing that the only way to overcome is to transcend; to find happiness in the simple pleasures, to master the art of just being.
Brianna Wiest
#94. There is no such thing as finding true happiness by searching for it directly. It must come, if it come at all, indirectly, or by the service, the love, and the happiness we give to others.
Ralph Waldo Trine
#95. Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiting, and the key to happiness is finding the one person with whom you share the same internal chronometer.
Jacob M. Appel
#96. 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
#98. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
Mother Teresa
#99. There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone
John Stuart Mill
#100. Our personal stories of perseverance contain immense wisdom that can assist others in finding their way to peace and illumination during difficult times.
Molly Friedenfeld