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. My happiness isn't dependent on anyone else's.
Byron Katie
#3. True happiness isn't something that is achieved only once and continues; it is something we must strive for again and again.
Terry Lander
#4. 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
#5. Happiness isn't something one finds, it's something one creates.
Marty Rubin
#6. Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.
Jean Seberg
#7. 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
#8. Happiness isn't something you have to search for in life. Happiness is a way of life you choose to have.
Javy Galindo
#9. Happiness isn't something you experience, it's something you remember.
Oscar Levant
#10. Happiness isn't expensive, it just costs your will ...
Mehek Bassi
#11. Happiness isn't a destination. It's a journey. And sometimes the journey is hard.
Jennifer Dukes Lee
#12. 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
#13. Happiness isn't something she spends much time thinking about. Survival, discomfort, hunger ... these are the concerns that fill her days.
David Maine
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Happiness isn't getting all that you want. It's enjoying all that you have.
Rick Warren
#17. 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
#18. Happiness isn't about getting what you want all the time; it's about loving what you have.
Asher Roth
#19. Happiness isn't something you work toward, the same way misery isn't something you work toward.
Brent Jones
#20. Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
Julia Roberts
#21. You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth
Carole Glickfeld
#22. 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
#23. I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn't a final destination. You don't one day get there and get to stay.
Deb Caletti
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Happiness isn't something that happens to you. It is what you yourself do and determine upon.
Maxwell Maltz
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Happiness isn't something you pick up at the grocery store, nor is it something that comes to you at a certain age. It's a trait that lives within all of us, and it flourishes when you begin appreciating the things in life we take for granted.
T.A. Uner
#30. Once a day you should look into the mirror to see if what stands between you and happiness isn't you.
Edward Somers
#31. Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.
Maggie Stiefvater
#32. I'm beginning to recognise that real happiness isn't something large and looming on the horizon ahead, but something small, numerous and already here. The smile of someone you love. A decent breakfast. The warm sunset. Your little everyday joys all lined up in a row.
Beau Taplin
#33. Happiness isn't some elusive treasure we chase after. It's a state of being we need to PRACTICE.
Brian Johnson
#34. If the joy of the Lord is our strength, then happiness isn't material; it's a choice we make in those tough moments to see Him working in our circumstances rather than focusing on our problems.
Kim Dolan Leto
#35. In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.
Ariel Gore
#36. Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings ... It's something we make inside ourselves.
Corrie Ten Boom
#37. My happiness isn't connected to my husband's or my boss's or my children's behavior. You have control over your own actions, your own well-being.
Michelle Obama
#39. Happiness isn't a constant. You get fleeting glimpses. You have to fight for those moments, but they make it all worth it.
Taylor Swift
#40. But happiness isn't like unhappiness. You recover from it!
Simone Berteaut
#41. Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.
Beverly Lewis
#42. Happiness isn't complicated. It is a humble state of gratitude for simple pleasures, tender mercies, recognized blessings, and inherent beauty.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#43. Happiness isn't about pretending there's no pain. It's about accepting the pain as a part of healing and doing your best to nurse your own wounds with love and patience.
Vironika Tugaleva
#44. Happiness isn't always easy," he'd said. "But it's a priority.
Goldy Moldavsky
#45. Happiness isn't happiness without a violin-playing goat.
Richard Curtis
#46. True happiness isn't a disruption-free life, its learning to recognize the ever-present contentment amidst the disruptions of life. Go with the flow(non-resistance), and when you struggle, remember to be compassionate with yourself...
Maximus Freeman
#47. We welcome that kind of shrapnel so that when it twinges in our souls we're filled with that glowing feeling that comfort us in our darkest hours and whispers from somewhere inside that our own happiness isn't impossible nor is it entirely lost.
Carrie Hope Fletcher
#48. Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.
Diana Wynne Jones
#49. To be happy you have to know what you really want. After all, you can never have enough of what you didn't want in the first place. True happiness isn't a thing or a commodity, it's something you cultivate and share.
Robert Holden
#50. The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't based on external factors.
Tony Hsieh
#51. That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
Bill Watterson
#53. Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
Garth Brooks
#54. Happiness isn't in the future, it's not somewhere else. It's available right inside us, right now, all the time.
Leo Babauta
#55. That no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here.
Robin Hobb
#56. Happiness isn't something that you plan for. It comes knocking unexpectedly, just like opportunity. And it's up to you to answer the door and invite it inside.
Autumn Doughton
#57. Happiness isn't good enough. I demand euphoria!
Darynda Jones
#59. Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.
Elvis Costello
#60. Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.
Frida Lyngstad
#61. 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
#62. Being content isn't good enough. You deserve so much more - passion, joy, and excitement...
Nancee Cain
#63. It isn't important who is going to hurt me, but its important who is going to love me.
Debasish Mridha
#64. Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.
Paula McLain
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. Success isn't the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
Gautama Buddha
#70. 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
#71. 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
#73. 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
#75. 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
#76. Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.
Rory Sutherland
#77. A man with courage has fear but he isn't afraid of fear and he knows how to deal with it.
Debasish Mridha
#78. 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
#79. Unhappiness isn't at its most acute point until a realistic chance of happiness, sufficiently close, has been envisioned.
Michel Houellebecq
#80. Once you accept the fact that life isn't fun, you'll be much happier, his mother said to him.
Paul Bowles
#81. 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
#82. The secret of a successful life isn't the success but happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.
Charles Saatchi
#90. Good Lord, only a moment of bliss? Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of a man's life?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
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