Top 100 Happiness Isn't Quotes

#1. Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.

Jane Porter

#2. Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

Frida Lyngstad

#3. A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?

Ivan Turgenev

#4. My happiness isn't dependent on anyone else's.

Byron Katie

#5. Being content isn't good enough. You deserve so much more - passion, joy, and excitement...

Nancee Cain

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

Debasish Mridha

#7. True happiness isn't something that is achieved only once and continues; it is something we must strive for again and again.

Terry Lander

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

Paula McLain

#9. The only really important thing, at the end of the day, is your health. If you haven't got that, then all the money in the world isn't going to bring you happiness.

John Caudwell

#10. 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

#11. I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#12. 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

#13. She wished she had known back then. Known that happiness isn't a point in time you leave behind. It's what's ahead of you. Every single day.

Sarah Addison Allen

#14. Happiness isn't something one finds, it's something one creates.

Marty Rubin

#15. Success isn't the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.

Gautama Buddha

#16. Your life isn't behind you; your memories are behind you. Your life is ALWAYS ahead of you. Today is a new day - seize it!

Steve Maraboli

#17. It isn't humanly possible for the things radical leftists want to bring about the desired results that they choose. They claim they want a utopian happiness, and they are further and further away from it the more successful they are.

Rush Limbaugh

#18. There is no happiness that isn't earned

Dennis Prager

#19. Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.

Jean Seberg

#20. Happiness isn't a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.

Phil McGraw

#21. When we meditate, we go beyond the swirl of thoughts, memories and emotions that tend to keep us stuck in our ego's story of who we are. We enter an expanded state of awareness and discover our own inner fountain of joy, a source of happiness that isn't dependent on anyone or anything.

Deepak Chopra

#22. I know money isn't everything. but it certainly is something.

Thisuri Wanniarachchi

#23. Kindness isn't sacrifice so much as it is being considerate for the feelings of others, sharing happiness, the unselfish thought, the spontaneous and friendly act, forgetfulness of our own present interests.

Carl Holmes

#24. Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.

Rory Sutherland

#25. A man with courage has fear but he isn't afraid of fear and he knows how to deal with it.

Debasish Mridha

#26. A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.

Poul Anderson

#27. Happiness isn't something you have to search for in life. Happiness is a way of life you choose to have.

Javy Galindo

#28. Happiness isn't something you experience, it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

#29. Unhappiness isn't at its most acute point until a realistic chance of happiness, sufficiently close, has been envisioned.

Michel Houellebecq

#30. Happiness isn't expensive, it just costs your will ...

Mehek Bassi

#31. Once you accept the fact that life isn't fun, you'll be much happier, his mother said to him.

Paul Bowles

#32. Happiness isn't a destination. It's a journey. And sometimes the journey is hard.

Jennifer Dukes Lee

#33. Why don't people do what they really want to do, Reuben?" he asked. "Why do we so often settle for what makes us devoutly unhappy! Why do we accept that happiness just isn't possible?

Anne Rice

#34. The secret of a successful life isn't the success but happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#35. But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

Lauren Oliver

#36. It isn't only art that is incompatible with happiness, it's also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

Aldous Huxley

#37. Happiness is a habit, it isn't something that comes with new clothes. It's something you have to work at. So, start smiling and get out and take some exercise

John Crace

#38. We all say in our own lives that money isn't everything. Love matters, friendships matter. My relationship with my kids matters. It shouldn't be a giant leap to take that thought and introduce it into political dialogue

David Cameron

#39. Life isn't the orderly black-and-white business we'd prefer it to be. It's messy and complicated and horribly blurred around the edges. All we can ever do is make the best of it. And maybe grab at those fleeting chances of happiness.' 'But never at the expense of anyone else's

Erica James

#40. Happiness isn't something she spends much time thinking about. Survival, discomfort, hunger ... these are the concerns that fill her days.

David Maine

#41. Happiness," wrote Yeats, "is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing." Contemporary researchers make the same argument: that it isn't goal attainment but the process of striving after goals-that is, growth-that brings happiness.

Gretchen Rubin

#42. I've thought about the idea of, 'Can happiness and creativity co-exist?' So much of what I've done, I think, has been based on being dissatisfied or incomplete or lonely. The answer is, 'There isn't an answer, necessarily.'

Conor Oberst

#43. Happiness isn't a state, it's a skill. It's the skill of knowing how to take what life throws your way and make the most of it.

Gary Null

#44. My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

Charles Saatchi

#45. Good Lord, only a moment of bliss? Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of a man's life?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#46. Happiness isn't found in some finite checklist of goals that we can diligently complete and then coast. It's how we live our lives in the process. That's why the four pillars of happiness are faith, family, community and meaningful work. Those are priorities we have to keep investing in.

Arthur C. Brooks

#47. I found happiness when I realized that as imperfect as I may be, I am the perfect Nick Vujicic. I am God's creation, designed according to His plan for me. That's not to say there isn't room for improvement. I'm always trying to be better so I can better serve Him and the world!

Nick Vujicic

#48. I know this happiness that I feel isn't going to last, and I feel like Cinderella, waiting for the clock to strike and end my blissful night.

Anna Todd

#49. Happiness isn't getting all that you want. It's enjoying all that you have.

Rick Warren

#50. I sing of happiness, he says, and insecurity shows through
poisons it. I sing of unhappiness, and it spoils that, too, because my real unhappiness isn't great or noble but cheap
money unhappiness.
$10,000 a Year, Easy

Kurt Vonnegut

#51. With pure nature, money isn't necessary but meaningful to every one, including me, but i don't make it a principle rule because I can live without it.

Auliq Ice

#52. Happiness isn't reserved for privileged individuals. It is a state of mind that can neither be bought nor stolen nor traded; it is a liberty available to anyone.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#53. Self-love isn't always so poetic; sometimes it's a nice big triple back flip kick in the ass. You've got to call yourself on your own nonsense; on the incredibly efficient way you can be self-destructive.

Steve Maraboli

#54. Happiness isn't about getting what you want all the time; it's about loving what you have.

Asher Roth

#55. Postponing happiness until "all your ducks are in order" means never because life is not that clean, fair or predictable. It isn't what happens to you that defines your life, it is what you do with it that does.

Laura C. Schlessinger

#56. A few of us always compared anything good to: ' Isn't it just like camp?' When we first got married, we asked each other, 'Was your honeymoon good?' 'Yeah. It was just like camp.

Laurie Kahn

#57. Love isn't crazy. Love isn't a degree of insanity. Love is sanity at its purest. It forces your soul to make a rational choice - a choice to make another person's happiness your priority, to allow them access to your heart and soul.

Lila Felix

#58. 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

#59. It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.

Margaret Culkin Banning

#60. Most often life isn't what you are doing, but what is happening with you.
Life is filled with hidden joy and beauty,
but finding them is our sacred duty.

Debasish Mridha

#61. You want to be happy; of course, that isn't how you get to be happy; because if you want to be happy, you are going to be sitting around being unhappy because you're not happy.

Frederick Lenz

#62. If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.

Robyn Schneider

#63. After all, isn't the purpose of the novel, or of a museum, for that matter, to relate our memories with such sincerity as to transform individual happiness into a happiness all can share?

Orhan Pamuk

#64. Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either. There's both sweet and sour in every day. So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what's beautiful? Concentrate on the good.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#65. Calm down, it isn't a ring I laughed and he pushed the box across the table to me and I blushed and opened it.

Mercy Cortez

#66. What if I came here and I ended up loving it? What if, after a year, I didn't want to leave? What then? But wouldn't it be great if I loved it? Isn't that the whole point? Why bet on not loving a place? Why not take a chance and bet on happiness? I

Jenny Han

#67. I find writing the darker side, writing tragedy, a lot easier than writing happiness. Happiness is just less psychologically compelling, isn't it?

Paula Hawkins

#68. Happiness isn't something you work toward, the same way misery isn't something you work toward.

Brent Jones

#69. Good sex isn't just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent

Alain De Botton

#70. Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

Julia Roberts

#71. 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

#72. Anyway, who in their right mind would ever say a person was supposed to be happy? In your life happiness is either cut to your length or isn't.

Howard Norman

#73. If such a thing called happiness exists in this world, it should be something which resembles the limitless nothingness. Nihility is having nothing and having nothing to lose. If that isn't "happiness", then what is?

Tite Kubo

#74. Retirement isn't a goal; it's a sentence.

Ari Gold

#75. Money alone isn't enough to bring happiness ... happiness [is] when you're actually truly ok with losing everything you have.

Tony Hsieh

#76. Happiness really isn't that hard to find.

Sarra Manning

#77. I'm looking for something new to believe in that isn't the way people yearn at night in the city.

Constance Renfrow

#78. You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth

Carole Glickfeld

#79. The Right Knowledge reduces pain-and-suffering, and increases happiness. If we fall short of having acquired the Right Knowledge, the faults is ours', isn't it?

Dada Bhagwan

#80. happiness isn't about the events going on in your life; it's about how you handle them. It's about falling down and standing up straighter than you did before. It's about realizing that nothing comes easy.

Jodie Sweetin

#81. I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn't a final destination. You don't one day get there and get to stay.

Deb Caletti

#82. Happiness isn't what happens when you whistle along, pretending bad things don't exist ... Happiness is earned, like everything else. It's achieved.

Marisa De Los Santos

#83. For me," mused Dandelion, "a mattress without a young woman isn't a mattress at all. It is incomplete happiness ...

Andrzej Sapkowski

#84. Happiness is such a fragile thing, isn't it? So easily burst, like a bubble blown by a child, and always on the verge of being carried away.

Nenia Campbell

#85. Audrey isn't the type of girl to wait around for anyone; she's strong and she makes her own happiness. If she wants a bouquet of roses, she's sure as hell not going to wait for me to give it to her. She'll go out and plant her own fucking garden.

Kimberly Lauren

#86. Happiness isn't about smiling all the time, loving all the time, or getting everything you want. It's about living and experiencing everything this life has to offer you, truly and authentically.

Betsy Chasse

#87. Imagine what it would be like to have a bookshelf filled only with books that you really love. Isn't that image spellbinding? For someone who loves books, what greater happiness could there be?

Marie Kondo

#88. All that matters in life is that you are happy with where you are, what you are, and with whom you are. Everything around you will be happy and smile with you. If that isn't success, then what is?

Debasish Mridha

#89. Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.

Maxwell Maltz

#90. You can spend the rest of your life fighting to be respected, accepted and understood by the people you have created a life with or you can start living a life where that isn't a daily goal and ambition in your relationship.

Shannon L. Alder

#91. While it may feel natural to devote yourself to your creative work and succumb to feelings of separation and alienation, it nevertheless isn't a terrific idea in terms of your overall happiness and health.

Eric Maisel

#92. Happiness is NOW! It isn't tomorrow. It isn't yesterday. Happiness is like a morning glory: Yesterday's won't bloom again; tomorrow's hasn't opened yet. Only today's flower can be enjoyed today. Be happy this very moment, and you'll learn how to be happy always.

Goswami Kriyananda

#93. Logically, you should go to school, get good grades, go to college, get a good degree, go into the workplace, then work hard and be happy.
The only problem is that happiness isn't logical.

A.C. Ping

#94. Happy isn't even a real idea," he said. "It's just like love. A reasonably skeptical person doesn't even know what it means.

Ethan Canin

#95. You'll drive yourself crazy trying to control something that isn't yours to control. Let go. Free yourself. Allow your mind and energy to focus on something positive ... to build something beautiful.

Steve Maraboli

#96. Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.'
'It's the most we can hope for.

David Nicholls

#97. Being made happy isn't receiving something new, it's being made to understand what we have.

Gwen Bristow

#98. I'm not happy," she whispered. "I don't know what I am, but this isn't happiness.

Melissa Marr

#99. They say the cure is about happiness, but I understand now that it isn't, and it never was. It's about fear: fear of pain, fear of hurt, fear, fear, fear - a blind animal existence, bumping between walls, shuffling between ever-narrowing hallways, terrified and dull and stupid.

Lauren Oliver

#100. To be happy you have to fulfill your nature. That's what Aristotle taught so many centuries ago, that the road to happiness isn't to go drink more or consume more. The road to happiness is to fully develop your abilities, and then apply them to do good.

Charles Koch

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