Happiness's 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. 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

#3. Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is ... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.

Donna Ball

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

Debasish Mridha

#5. Mrs. Gruber said that happiness was not something she aspired to, that when we had seen as much of the world as she had, we would know that what lies right behind the horseshit is not a prize pony, my dears, it's more horseshit.

Amy Bloom

#6. Take Care of Yourself First- It's Easier to Serve Others That Way.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#7. Happiness was waiting to be chosen.

Pearl S. Buck

#8. When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

C.S. Lewis

#9. I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up and down and try to convert everyone to happiness than a Kool-Aid suicide.

Annie E. Clark

#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. 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

#12. Sometimes we don't know what's best until we're forced into it. Often you can be just as happy or even happier with less.

Peter Seidel

#13. Give me Pablo Neruda, picnic beneath a full moon & iridescent stars, black olives, cherries, dark things, canoe on a river ... that's romance.

Brandi L. Bates

#14. Man's holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man's greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.

Thomas Brooks

#15. The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

C.S. Lewis

#16. That's what life is for, to find that joy in yourself.

Goswami Kriyananda

#17. Everyone holds his or her own key to success and happiness. It's just that sometimes you have to test out a lot of wrong keys first to find the one that fits.

Brittany Burgunder

#18. I will always try to be happy. I don't think people really understand the value of happiness until they know what it's like to be in that very, very dark place. It's not romantic. Not even a little.

Sarah Silverman

#19. In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

Giacomo Leopardi

#20. I can do pain. That's the easy part of life. It's everything else, happiness, laughter, love, that's fucking complicated.

Jessica Sorensen

#21. More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

Dalai Lama

#22. Happiness is a habit,
it's more than fleeting,
more than a disintegrating lozenge.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#23. You can't care what other people think of whom you choose to love, or not to love. When it comes to your love life, it's NOT the time to be satisfying other people's opinions. The difference between what's good for you and what's good for everyone else is happiness.

Chrissy Anderson

#24. Let's fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.

Dale Carnegie

#25. When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

Andy Stanley

#26. When joy is LOST, hope can easily FIND it ... It's only your HOPE, that knows the where about of your JOY! If you lose hope you lose everything!

Israelmore Ayivor

#27. I don't think I've ever known what you people call happiness. We think of contentment as the desirable thing, and maybe that's negative.

John Steinbeck

#28. The Lord's way is the only way for us to experience enduring happiness. His way brings sustained comfort to our souls and perennial peace to our homes.

Russell M. Nelson

#29. Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#30. 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

#31. Sometimes it's not about making a ton of money in one night, just to spend the rest of your life waiting on the next payday. You will fare better investing time, planning, strategic thinking in order to secure a stable, fruitful future.

Carlos Wallace

#32. Sometimes people in abusive situations think they're responsible for the other person's happiness or that they're going to fix them and make them feel better. The practice of equanimity teaches that it's not all up to you to make someone else happy.

Sharon Salzberg

#33. You are so intense. Like a storm. It's shocking how intense you are.

Francesca Lia Block

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

Byron Katie

#35. Love your life. That's a direct route to something people used to call "happiness".

Clementine Holzinger

#36. Of course, the spectacle of two people's happiness is always something of a magnet for the unclaimed.

Anita Brookner

#37. Once you love, it's a gift forever. Once you hurt, forget it never.

Debasish Mridha

#38. Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes.

Norman Vincent Peale

#39. That's the way it is. People can't cope with happiness.

Paulo Coelho

#40. Happiness will be fleeting if you constantly search for it in places that can be taken away. It's an inside job.

Nikki Rowe

#41. Life is beautiful. It's even more beautiful when you learn to see the beauty in the midst of ugliness and in and around you.

Debasish Mridha

#42. From human problems come human solutions, which in turn spawn inspiration, creativity, insight and enlightenment. Without life's problems, life would become stagnant, dull and boring.

Beth Johnson

#43. And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?

Paul McCartney

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

Robin S. Sharma

#45. There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It's just a waste of perfectly good happiness.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#46. 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

#47. Will you dance with me?" The charms on Sahara's bracelet clinked against one another as she lifted her arms to link them around his neck, her love for him proud and open.
Deep inside, even the part of him that was the void, merciless and dark and broken, knew happiness, knew joy.

Nalini Singh

#48. Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself

Aristotle.

#49. Happiness comes in many forms - in the company of good friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else's dream come true, or in the promise of hope renewed. It's okay to let yourself be happy because you never know how fleeting that happiness might be.

Lucas Scott

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

Mos Def

#51. Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

Ayn Rand

#52. One day's happiness often predicts the next day's creativity.

Teresa Amabile

#53. 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

#54. As it's your 40th birthday
This, we'd like to say
May you be bathed in goodness, happiness and sunshineness
On this, your special day.

John Walter Bratton

#55. We deny our destiny because it's leading us toward happiness, and all we want is security.

Paulo Coelho

#56. Happiness is the satisfaction you feel. There's delight, joy, excitement and pleasant surprise.

Dee Dee Artner

#57. Happiness has no formula, it's an ingredient and it's always there.

Testy McTesterson

#58. Slow down in your pursuit of happiness and it's more likely to catch up with you.

Ernie J Zelinski

#59. 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

#60. The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate your happiness - celebrate your happiness, even when she's not necessarily happy herself.

Sarah Jio

#61. 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

#62. Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#63. Happiness is a quality of the soul ... not a function of one's material circumstances.

Aristotle.

#64. Happiness is an emotion based on positive circumstances within our lives. The origin of the word "happiness" was
derived from the same root "hap", similar to the word "happening." Depending on what's happening in our lives, we're either happy or sad. It's based on pure luck and good fortune.

Dana Arcuri

#65. A child's smile reminds us that the greatest privilege in life is to know, help & enjoy the company of others

Phil Harding

#66. There's too much pain and uncertainty in the world. You should seize happiness whenever it comes, and hold onto it for as long as you can.

Anna White

#67. A Consciously Conscious Revolutionary Workplace mindset, is People Firsts, to ensure that it's not a prostitute of our children's future.

Tony Dovale

#68. It's not attractive when girls get superskinny. Guys don't like it. Girls don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about.

Hilary Duff

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. She expressed an opinion that the happiness of a woman in Paradise is beneath the soles of her husband's feet,' he enlightened humorously, seemingly not at all averse to her obvious desire to be comforted.

Margaret Rome

#73. I don't feel like myself unless I run. It's how I deal with sadness and happiness. I need it. It's like therapy.

Kara Goucher

#74. Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life's expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#75. That one who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day in which he lives, needs to reorganize his life. And the sooner the better, for pure enjoyment throughout life has more to do with one's happiness and efficiency than almost any other single element.

George Matthew Adams

#76. You know someone's okay if they can ignore things they can't do anything about and move on.

Jo Nesbo

#77. Tomorrow will never call to ask your opinion; you don't control it. Stop allowing today's possibilities to be robbed by tomorrow's insecurities.

Steve Maraboli

#78. You find everything on earth at Harry's."
"Yes, my Colonel. Except, possibly, happiness."
"I'll damn well find happiness, too," the Colonel assured him. "Happiness, as you know, is a movable feast.

Ernest Hemingway,

#79. 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

#80. So treasure your moments of happiness, the glimpses you see of truth, the nights you've been loved. That's all you've got.

Fay Weldon

#81. No, your worst sin does not consist in what you did to your husband that day; rather it lies in your discontent with God's special creatures, with your fellow men. For this reason you can experience no real happiness....That is a grievous sin, Beret Holm!

O.E. Rolvaag

#82. Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement

Phil Harding

#83. Most of us don't know about happiness until it's over.

Claudette Colbert

#84. Whoever influences the child's life ought to try to give him a positive view of himself and of his world. The child's future happiness and his ability to cope with life and relate to others will depend on it.

Bruno Bettelheim

#85. To wish for your own happiness is sometimes coupled with another person's unhappiness. Since I couldn't pray for my own happiness, I prayed to the moon in the night sky for the happiness of the one whose warm hand I held.

Chica Umino

#86. 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

#87. Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his happiness, his promise.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#88. There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.

Gretchen Rubin

#89. So if we know no place, no job, no marriage, no child is going to fulfill us perfectly, we can make the choice to quit fighting for happiness in all of it and start to fight for God's glory in it.

Jennie Allen

#90. I would rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar.

A.S. Neill

#91. It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness);

Aristotle.

#92. It's time we recognize that, as the workplace is currently structured, a lot of women don't want to get to the top and stay there because they don't want to pay the price - in terms of their health, their well-being, and their happiness.

Arianna Huffington

#93. Until you're willing to accept what already is - the things of your past that you can't change - there's no space for you to create what you want. Acceptance is the key to unlocking the door to true peace, happiness, and freedom.

Hal Elrod

#94. Life is not always about happy endings. Sometimes it's about finding happiness in the ending you get.

Chip Rossetti

#95. As women, we're nurturers by nature. We want to make sure everyone is happy. That's a good thing, but we also have to put ourselves on that happiness list.

Victoria Osteen

#96. The secret of happiness lies in the mind's release from worldly ties.

Gautama Buddha

#97. I don't want a relationship that just looks good on the outside. It's more important that it feels great on the inside.

Sherri Rifkin

#98. -Wherever you go, there you are! You can't run away from yourself, or the underlying situation, no matter where you go. You won't find happiness anywhere, unless it's already there in your heart, and therefore you have carried it with you.

Andrew James Pritchard

#99. Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him.

C.S. Lewis

#100. I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I'm kind of thankful for that. If you grow up just watching MTV, that's its own form of religion, and it's not even based on happiness or communal responsibility. I mean, try to construct a worldview out of that.

Win Butler