Top 100 Living Happiness Quotes
#1. The supreme good - to examine everything - a life which was not devoted to such research would not be worth living. Happiness would thus consist in their never-ending quest. PLATO
Alexandra Stoddard
#2. Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves.
Wayne Coyne
#3. Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4. I was born in a dream.
I woke up in a wakeful dream.
I am living in a dream.
Life is a miracle in a dream.
Debasish Mridha
#5. There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.
C. JoyBell C.
#6. She resolved every day to:
1. Do something for someone else.
2. Do something for myself
3. Do something I don't want to do that needs doing.
4. Do a physical exercise
5. Do a mental exercise
6. Do an original prayer that always includes counting my blessings
Marci Shimoff
#8. What is one common thing every one craves for? It is love... Love others unconditionally, honestly and truthfully. When you fill your being with love, you make yourself healthier and happier.
Sanchita Pandey
#9. From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.
Benjamin Hoff
#10. Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by 'their happiness' is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That's not a bad thing.
Banana Yoshimoto
#11. Happiness is living by your side, and dying by your side
Maki Enjoji
#13. Learn new things and grow every day. Growing is living; live every moment; live all the way.
Debasish Mridha
#15. If there were no women then men would still be living in the jungle.
Debasish Mridha
#17. Life's like a book: What matters is the hook.
Be it short or long, just live it strong.
Whether it's five stars, or how near or far, just soar!
Ana Claudia Antunes
#18. Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures. Happiness is having a sense of meaning, not a feeling of futility.
David W Augsburger
#20. How you do money is how you do life.
Orna Ross
#21. Thinking about monastic ideals is not the same as living up to them, but at any rate such thinking has an important place in a monk's life, because you cannot begin to do anything unless you have some idea what you are trying to do.
Thomas Merton
#22. I find great happiness in my relationships with old friends, living mirrors that reflect histories of laughter and sorrow, triumphs and failures, births and deaths, on both sides.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#23. Everyone needs peace of mind, inner-happiness and joyful relationships but most people don't prioritize these. Do you set goals or invest in learning to achieve these?
If you focus only on career, social and financial goals then you will never be fulfilled or fully successful!
Maddy Malhotra
#24. Obscurity and a competence - that is the life that is best worth living.
Mark Twain
#25. What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness.
Aristotle.
#26. In spite of the extent to which Solomon went to find happiness, because he left God out of the picture, nothing satisfied. It never will. Satisfaction in life will never occur until there is a meaningful connection with the living Lord above the sun.
Charles R. Swindoll
#27. When I felt myself escaping from the earth," he commented, "my reaction was not pleasure but happiness." It was "a moral feeling," he added. "I could hear myself living, so to speak.
Julian Barnes
#28. We are living for the happiness, going toward the happiness, and like to vanish in the happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#29. Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.
Martha Beck
#30. We discover the vast difference between living and feeling alive when we discover inspiration." The quickest way to true happiness is not by ambling and obsessing about the limited pursuit of happiness, but by the immediate and actionable pursuit to be inspired.
Elaina Marie
#31. The object of living is work, experience, happiness.
Henry Ford
#32. Let nothing put me to unease,
nothing to deceive.
I have conceived,
I exist.
Because I am blessed,
To gather time,
in hearing,
my breath,
so tranquil.
To life,
I am, thankful.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#33. Happiness consists of living in the dailiness of life and not knowing how happy you are. True happiness comes of not knowing you're happy.
E.L. Doctorow
#35. You cannot fill your life with happiness when you insist on living a stressful life.
Debasish Mridha
#36. She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.
Daphne Du Maurier
#37. When we were together before, the world was small to us, but as you grew bigger to life and the world became desirous to living, we became smaller to each other.
Anthony Liccione
#39. All alternatives are open. Choose to be blissful. And then there are people who can be blissful even when they are imprisoned, and there are people who remain miserable even when they are living in marble palaces. It all depends on you.
Rajneesh
#40. Difficult times are ways to know and understand yourself and others in a better way.
(From 'Voyage to Happiness')
Sanchita Pandey
#42. There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life.
Eckhart Tolle
#44. Jesus Christ represented God as the principle of all good, the source of all happiness, the wise and benevolent Creator and Preserver of all living things. But the interpreters of his doctrines have confounded the good and the evil principle.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#45. He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
William Golding
#46. I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than I could help; my nature was meant for happiness, a daylight art and living.
Katherine Anne Porter
#48. Knowledge comes from reading but wisdom comes from experience of living.
Debasish Mridha
#49. Do not be ashamed of your past. Learn from those experiences and move forward in your life. Teach others of the possibilities of change & living victoriously. You are a survivor.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#50. The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.
Elizabeth Taylor
#51. If you did not live lovingly and love deeply, you would not feel the pain of separation. But neither would you feel the joy, passion, and happiness that living fully and loving deeply bring.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#52. Uplift & Inspire, do not be envious of others success. You are given the same hours in a day. Make it worthwhile! Instead of focusing on what someone else is doing, pay attention to how you're living and make the best of life
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#54. Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.
Maggie Stiefvater
#55. Happiness is the peace of mind that comes from feeling that I am living a worthy life in the company of people I love and in the service of something bigger than myself.
Michael Josephson
#56. Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.
Gautama Buddha
#57. In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.
Michel De Montaigne
#58. Schooling will give you knowledge to make your living, but education is for living a life.
Debasish Mridha
#59. I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there either.
Edward Young
#60. Happiness got me two ungrateful sons, a husband who hates me, and a painful reality living as the shunned wife. If you think this happiness you're clinging to will last, think again.
Suilan Lee
#61. This we can all bear witness to, living as we do plagued by unremitting anxiety . It becomes more and more imperative that the life of the spirit be avowed as the only firm basis upon which to establish happiness and peace.
Dalai Lama
#62. We can't be searching for the meaning of life, at each moment of our life! We need to go out there and live each moment!
Avijeet Das
#63. To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate.
Jean De La Bruyere
#64. What happiness is, no person can say for another. But no one, I am convinced, can be happy who lives only for himself. The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring and worthier than we are.
John Mason Brown
#66. What is there to forgive? ... Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short; far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.
Jasper Fforde
#67. Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.
Oliver Burkeman
#68. Entertain only those thoughts which bring health, vitality and happiness in your life. Start now and think right for you are the painter of the canvas of your life.
Sanchita Pandey
#69. Happiness blooms naturally in the hearts of those who are inwardly free. It flows spontaneously, like a mountain spring after April showers, in minds that are contented with simple living.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#70. Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.
Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
#71. We all need a space to just let things be, a place to remember who we are and what is important to us, an interval of time that allows the happiness and joy of living back into our consciousness.
Nina Sankovitch
#72. Be aware of the company you keep. You'd be surprised how easily they rub off on you. You don't want to attract the wrong influence.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#73. Happiness comes from living in the moment, this moment, now, right here. If you are in obscure states of mind, you won't see what this moment is. You won't realize its beauty.
Frederick Lenz
#75. The truest happiness, he said, lay in working hard and living frugally.
George Orwell
#76. Sometimes things will not go as planned, but don't lose hope. Stay focused on whatever you are trying to accomplish. There will be a breakthrough soon. Understand that all things take time. You may not be there yet, but you're on the right path towards success.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#77. Every life is a unique story written by an unique person who is living it. So write it fearlessly, write it better.
Debasish Mridha
#78. Living's immediacy, you go full sail, you're in a fever of motion. Until it's safe and past and done and dead and you can say, like waking from a dream, "Yes I was happy then, yes now it's all over I can see I was happy then." Maybe that's the advantage of dying?
Joyce Carol Oates
#79. Some people live a lifetime every second, others only a second in a life time with little happiness to find. Learn to seize each and every second and make your life divine!
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#80. Watching life grow, even if it isn't your own; watching time pass; and being able to be there for people, even if they don't know it. Now that's happiness. Dead or alive, that's true living
Renee Wolfe
#82. Why she was the happy one when she was dying, and I just can't seem to manage anything when I'm living.
Daisy Whitney
#83. When you do great things, Expect greater things. None of your works are done in vain. You will achieve what you set forth to accomplish!
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#84. Though there are no stars, no light but the souls in love will always shine so bright even in darkness.
Auliq Ice
#85. Thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?
Isaac Marion
#86. Every day of my life is worth living. Every day I spend by caring, sharing, and loving.
Debasish Mridha
#87. You're not here just to make a living but for appreciating and expressing gratitude for the abundance and beauty of life that you are enjoying.
Debasish Mridha
#89. I try to look at life carefully and reproduce life the way life is. It's a question of looking carefully at how it is. In life, you don't have total happiness. People always say that. But you don't have total sadness either, no matter what situation you are living in.
Marjane Satrapi
#90. It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.
Bertrand Russell
#91. Living out one's faith is either no way to live or the only way to live; it's either imprisonment, or the only path to freedom. It offers happiness, or it frustrates the pursuit. There is no half-love, half-religion, half-worship, half-belief, half-truth. There is no kinda-sorta.
Tarek Saab
#92. If you have never known happiness and sorrow, then you have not fully experience life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#93. I quickly convinced myself that the true key to material happiness lay in a modest standard of living which could be achieved with little difficulty under almost all economic conditions.
Benjamin Graham
#95. Never blame any day in your life. Good days give you happiness, bad days give you experience, and the worst days give you a lesson.
Sukhraj S. Dhillon
#96. It was one thing to stay in one place If you were happy and fulfilled- that was simply living the good life. But what if you weren't fulfilled?
Syrie James
#97. What have I to prove, and to whom, and why? I'm keen enough to want nothing more than to live a simple, humble, unfettered life.
Donna Lynn Hope
#99. Just do what you were going to do, before you said you were going to do it.
Delma Pryce
