Top 100 Is Happiness Quotes
#1. To be married to a wife who can set type is happiness indeed.
Walter Tracy
#3. Anything that's expanding the mind and heart is happiness. But it's not a goal.
Richard Gere
#5. Success is ... happiness. Is that too Deepak Chopra?
Jimmy Fallon
#6. Knowledge is power ... knowled ge is safety ... knowle dge is happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
#8. You know, as I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love. You know, how I'm loved and how I love my family and my husband. That to me is happiness, when I feel like I am loved and I have a place to love deeply. That to me is happiness.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#9. The secret of life is love, but the purpose of life is happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#10. The Stoic makes no differentiation between a small act of kindness by a simple person and a great act of virtue from a learned sage. Virtue is virtue, and in both cases the result is happiness for the one who is virtuous.
Marcus Aurelius
#11. Life is happiness and unhappiness. Life is day and night, life is life and death. You have to be aware of both.
Rajneesh
#12. Women should know that love doesn't abuse you. It shouldn't hurt you. Love cannot be redefined into 'He only hit me once, I'll let it slide.' Love is happiness, not being neglectful, caring, being respectful, providing, having standards, kindness, standing up for the right things.
Jahmene Douglas
#13. Doing what you love is freedom.
Loving
what you do is happiness.
Lana Del Rey
#14. The efflux of the soul is happiness, here is happiness,
I think it pervades the open air, waiting at all times,
Now it flows unto us, we are rightly charged.
Walt Whitman
#16. To show a child what has once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own, so that there is now a double delight seen in the glow of trust and affection, this is happiness.
J.B. Priestley
#17. Being open is happiness and being closed is sadness. So free your mind from the prison of binding ideas and thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#18. When your mind is flooded with the pure light of nirvana, which is happiness itself, you will be delighted with whatever occurs to you.
Frederick Lenz
#19. But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus
#21. Our goal of all goals and ultimate purpose of life is happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#24. Sometimes I think it's easier to think about being happier, for what ever that means to you then worrying about what is happiness and what would life be if I finally achieved this ultimate happiness?
Gretchen Rubin
#25. Justice is happiness according to virtue.
John Rawls
#26. While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#27. But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul.
Aristotle.
#29. Verbally there is very general agreement; for both the general run of men and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness, and identify living well and doing well with being happy; but with regard to what happiness is they differ, and the many do not give the same account as the wise.
Aristotle.
#30. There is only one purpose in life, which is happiness. We attain happiness by serving others with love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#31. It is queer, but my love and longing for the world are always deepened by my absence from it; it's wondrous, don't you think, that a person can swing from despair to gleeful hunger, and that even during these dark days there is happiness to be found in the smallest things?
Kate Morton
#33. I swear I am happy. I have realized that the only happiness in this world is to observe, to spy, to watch, to scrutinize oneself and others, to be nothing but a big, slightly vitreous, somewhat bloodshot, unblinking eye. I swear that this is happiness.
Vladimir Nabokov
#36. I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it.
Sebastian Faulks
#37. To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.
Zhuangzi
#38. When we have unconflicted self-esteem, joy is our motor, not fear. It is happiness that we wish to experience, not suffering that we wish to avoid. Our purpose is self-expression, not self-avoidance or self-justification. Our motive is not to "prove" our worth but to live our possibilities.
Nathaniel Branden
#40. What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#42. We all think we only have to be knocked a little bit off course and we've lost everything, but it's only the start of something new and good. Where there is life, there is happiness. There
Leo Tolstoy
#43. Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander Pope
#45. Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.
Terry Pratchett
#46. Focusing on the beauty of life is insight. Enjoying the beauty of life is happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#47. Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter.
John Angell James
#48. I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#50. Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.
Victor Hugo
#51. What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#52. When you experience the light, voila, you're happy. The very nature of the light is happiness. You don't have to do anything or be anybody special.
Frederick Lenz
#53. Not only is happiness not money, it is not even like money.
Richard Koch
#56. That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.
Lupe Fiasco
#57. In books, the truth makes everything good and fine. The good prevail. The wicked are punished. There is happiness. But it's not like that really, is it?"
"No," I say. "I suppose it only makes everything known.
Libba Bray
#58. Still, happiness will depend on conditions favoring it. Lose those conditions and you lose your happiness. So, if your ability to affect happiness is so limited, the question becomes this - is happiness, then, really worthy of being the ultimate goal of life?" I'd
Bikram Dhillon
#59. The simple act of being completely attentive and present to another person is an act of love, and it fosters unshakeable well-being. It is happiness that isn't bound to a particular situation, happiness that can withstand change.
Sharon Salzberg
#61. The pain does not bring perfection because the pain is from Satan. The Great Divine Reality is happiness, peace, abundance and perfection. The Great Reality can't create the pain. What is perfect can't create pain. What is perfect only conceives happiness.
Samael Aun Weor
#62. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.
Bertrand Russell
#63. Yano. What is ... happiness to you?"
"Something like snow.
Yuuki Obata
#64. Life is Happiness. Happiness is the fact that I can do something right now.
Lee Donghae
#65. That is happiness, to be dissolved into something complete and great.
Willa Cather
#66. I want to say, without hesitation, the purpose of our life is happiness.
Dalai Lama
#67. A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.
Tom Wilson
#68. G. K. Chesterton once said that to be thankful is the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Thanklessness, then,must be the lowest form of thought, and ingratitude is discontentment, bankrupted of wonder.
Ravi Zacharias
#69. I had lost my way for some time, so I need to do things that I am happy with. It's not about being the number one heroine or money. It's about doing roles that I enjoy. My biggest ambition is happiness.
Sonam Kapoor
#70. The end toward which all human acts are directed is happiness.
Aristotle.
#71. Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness
Leo Tolstoy
#72. And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.
William Kent Krueger
#73. To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
J.B. Priestley
#74. The best thing that life can offer is happiness. The best way to find happiness is through unconditional love.
Debasish Mridha
#75. The uncontrolled mind Does not guess that the Atman is present: How can it meditate? Without meditation, where is peace? Without peace, where is happiness? (Bhagavad Gita, II. 62, 63, 65)
Swami Vivekananda
#76. The basic condition of human life is happiness.
Dalai Lama
#77. Silence can symbolize many things; fear, anger, sadness, or shame. But one thing that silence cannot symbolize is happiness because silence is dark, silence is quiet, silence is everything happiness should not acquire.
Keysi
#78. Motto is Happiness is a #Hashtag and we live life knowing the fairy tale is possible, even if you only get it online.
J.A. Huss
#79. If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#80. Not having to be alone is happiness; we do not talk of failure or success.
Mike O'Connor
#81. Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not really different; in essense they are the same. This is the true understanding transmitted from Buddha to us.
Shunryu Suzuki
#82. Do you want to know what happiness is? Happiness is the absence of unpleasant information.
William T. Vollmann
#83. An actor's body should be full of emotions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, pain or joy, enraged or elated.
Sonny Chiba
#84. The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
Thomas Carlyle
#85. What is happiness? Happiness is freedom. What is freedom? Freedom is the ability to live without fear of public perception; to be who you are no matter where you are.
Kaiylah Muhammad
#86. We all have different paths in life. As in purpose, so is happiness. As our purposes differ, so do our roads to happiness differ, though we may have common grounds.
Ogwo David Emenike
#87. Dear little house that I have lived in, there is happiness you have seen, even before I was born. In you is my life, and all the people I have loved are a part of you, so to go out of you, and leave you, is to leave myself.
Richard Llewellyn
#88. What we want is happiness, but if in pursuit of our own personal happiness we ignore the welfare of other sentient beings and only bully and deceive them, the results will be negative.
Dalai Lama XIV
#89. It is necessary to hope ... for hope itself is happiness.
Samuel Johnson
#90. Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.
Helen Keller
#91. Life is a process of changes; happy and sad.
Life is beautiful; and Life is happiness
Ellen J. Barrier
#92. As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.
Ivan Panin
#93. Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
Jean De La Bruyere
#94. How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea ... All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#95. There it is - happiness. Here it comes, closer and closer. I can hear its footsteps. And if we never see it or know it, well, that's all right too. Others will.
Anton Chekhov
#97. All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life.
Charles Dickens
#98. Is happiness really the only thing we should be aiming for?
Daniel Gilbert
#99. Virtue alone is happiness; all else
Is else, and without praise.
Thiruvalluvar
#100. Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure; ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
