Top 100 Quotes About Happiness
#1. Happiness is the most elusive thing for human beings to find.
Frederick Lenz
#2. Every morning, sweeten your coffee with some love and you will sweeten your day with happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#3. Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know ethics, nor will they ever succeed in defining happiness, for happiness is a thing that is lived and felt, not a thing that is reasoned or defined.
Miguel
#4. If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better.
Jane Austen
#5. Before you can improve your life and find a measure of happiness, you must learn to do one thing every day out of pure love.
Harold Klemp
#6. Our Life needs Love and Happiness, Secrets with Reveals , Satisfaction for a Peaceful Freedom..
Jan Jansen
Jan Jansen
#7. Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.
Thomas A Kempis
#8. If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
Gautama Buddha
#9. 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
#10. Anything that will enable us to express greater life, greater happiness, greater power
so long as it does not harm anyone
must be the Will of God for us.
Ernest Holmes
#11. I believe the happiness we feel in relation to animals is immensely significant. I believe it is absolutely central to our physical, psychological, and spiritual well-being.
Linda Bender
#12. Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
John Ruskin
#13. Over the years I've noticed that only men use this phrase - "unlucky in love" - in reference exclusively to unmarried women, as if they can't possibly comprehend that contentment or even happiness is possible without the centrality of a man.
Kate Bolick
#14. Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.
Corra May Harris
#15. It had been years before she could view anybody else's happiness without mourning the loss of her own.
Jojo Moyes
#16. I love you," he said, his voice almost musical with happiness.
She shot him a scowl. "Isn't saying that a bit dangerous considering these aren't wooden swords and the ends aren't even taped?"
He laughed.
C.C. Hunter
#17. Ah, Juliet, if the measure of thy joy
Be heaped like mine, and that thy skill be more
To blazon it, then sweeten with thy breath
This neighbours air, and let rich music's tongue
Unfold the imagined happiness that both
Receive in either by this dear encounter.
William Shakespeare
#18. My happiness is measured against my kids' happiness - when they're in a good place, I feel really good.
Michelle Obama
#19. Your happiness cannot depend on anyone. Your happiness is yours to build and enjoy. No one, absolutely no one, is indispensable in this life. Do not base your happiness on someone, base it on yourself and it will last much longer
Ariana Godoy
#20. Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.
Honore De Balzac
#21. If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. But
after all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted a
mountain high! A hill wasn't enough.
V.C. Andrews
#22. I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How good you are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain.
Graham Greene
#23. We are all part of some cosmic pattern, and this pattern works toward good and not evil. It builds and does not destroy. So I shall go on in my search for a race where I can find kinship and happiness.
Henry Kuttner
#24. Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.
John Grisham
#25. We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#26. You cannot have everyone else's happiness in mind as well when you go out seeking your own. It's not as if what you wish to of with your life is going to take away anything from theirs.
Musharraf Ali Farooqi
#27. Live Today! Do not allow your spirit to be softened of your happiness to be limited by a day you cannot have back or a day that does not yet exist.
Steve Maraboli
#28. It is beautiful to acquire knowledge, but it is misleading to expect it to bring us peace, love and happiness.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#29. Happiness can start by a conversation with coffee or Tea.
Jan Jansen
#30. Loneliness remembers what happiness forgets
Hal David
#31. It depends on education
that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands
to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.
Philip Sidney
#32. I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
Julia Ward Howe
#33. Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
Marquis De Sade
#34. The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can.
Loretta Swit
#35. The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of a good government.
Thomas Jefferson
#36. Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
Charlotte Bronte
#37. I have nothing else to offer you but my own happiness. Please say that it, at least, measures up, that it is a proper sort of unhappiness.
Walker Percy
#38. Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.
Julien Green
#39. Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.
Adam Davidson
#40. Happiness depends on each person. If you think you're happy, then you must be happy.
Hideaki Sorachi
#41. People are raised to believe that happiness is the land to which they are destined to travel. But that belief, which one so easily accepts as true, might just as well be a mirage.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
#42. Hey, lay off the dairy. And uh, no more happiness.
Brian Regan
#43. If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.
Georges Simenon
#44. Happiness cannot last, he thought. It is too intense.
Wilbur Smith
#45. Education confers humility, endows one with the authority to command, that will entitle one to affluence. With the help of charity and compassion this affluence can be made fruitful, and by this means, happiness in this world and peace in the next can be won.
Sai Baba
#46. Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#47. Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
Samuel Beckett
#48. Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.
Epicurus
#49. Don't think of happiness and success as a marathon you have to complete. Think of happiness and success as a few steps you take each day." Ray White
Ray White
#50. As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years.
William John Locke
#51. Happiness is in simplicity. To be happy, always try to have happy thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#52. As in twitter if you follow happiness ... Happiness will follow you back
Mohammed Sekouty
#56. To work with God's happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#57. I've always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.
Thalia
#58. Happiness was an evasive emotion that could not be fabricated, duplicated, or happened upon. It was something that was only handed out to a select few, but just like his mother, Ethan realized that he was never meant to have it.
Belinda G. Buchanan
#59. If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the dregs; then I want the woman I love to mistreat me, betray me, and the more cruelly the better. That too is a pleasure.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#60. There are three fundamentals for human happiness - love and faith, and work which will produce at least a minimum of material security. These things must be made possible for all human beings, men and women alike.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#61. I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
Victoria Woodhull
#63. Start to become active in what u love DOING. People admire action, courage&real happiness far more than they admire a size 2
Daphne Zuniga
#64. A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.
Jean De La Bruyere
#66. For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and evil. Joy can. Happiness depends on the present. Joy leaps into the future and triumphantly creates a new present out of it.
Elise M. Boulding
#67. It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.
Rachel Cohn
#68. She's all the blood I've ever shed. She's every time I've ever thought of death. She's every time I've ever looked at happiness and thought, 'That's not meant for me.
Elijah Noble El
#70. You are what happiness means to me. And I would rather have today with you than forever with anyone else.
Michelle Hodkin
#71. You will make the world a magnificent place with the magic of your kindness, beauty, peace, and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#72. In his life, after all, he had achieved nothing, had been totally unproductive. He couldn't make anyone else happy, and, of course, couldn't make himself happy. Happiness? He wasn't even sure what that meant.
Haruki Murakami
#73. I believe happiness is always there. That's why we have to keep looking for it. Because we can't always see it.
Because it doesn't always find us.
Lisa Mangum
#74. I am responsible for my life, my happiness, and my joy. I am responsible for my faults, which will destroy.
Debasish Mridha
#75. Invest your capital of love to get the best dividend of a beautiful life filled with happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#76. Worrying is a waste of time. It doesn't change anything. It messes with your mind and steals your happiness.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#77. Even if you fulfill your hearts desire, by sacrificing something important, you may not necessarily be happy. Happiness doesn't come in one form, it determined by your own heart.
Ai Yazawa
#78. Happiness, it has been observed, is best achieved by those who have been most unhappy heretofore.
Millard Kaufman
#79. True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things.
Eckhart Tolle
#80. If God contains the fullness of all good things in Himself like an inexhaustible fountain, nothing beyond Him is to be sought by those who strike after the highest good and all the elements of happiness.
John Calvin
#81. All of us are in the manufacturing industry - manufacturing either our own happiness or unhappiness.
Ogwo David Emenike
#82. Happiness, most often, is a choice. Make the choice to sit, breathe, and be in that moment.
Cathy Lamb
#83. Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian of what it commands; and is the only sure defence of happiness.
Jane Porter
#84. Among the blessings of love there is hardly one more exquisite than the sense that in uniting the beloved life to ours we can watch over its happiness, bring comfort where hardship was, and over memories of privation and suffering open the sweetest fountains of joy.
George Eliot
#85. The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness.
Siri Hustvedt
#86. It is the full involvement of flow, rather than happiness, that makes for excellence in life. When we are in flow, we are not happy, because to experience happiness we must focus on our inner states, and that would take away attention from the task at hand.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#87. Happiness is your True Nature.
Within you is Unimaginable Beauty.
Your True Self is Bright and Shining this Moment.
Through the clear Realization of the Truth,
your Real Self will come shining through.
Robert Adams
#88. You cannot will yourself to be happy while believing that you have no right to happiness, or that you are unworthy of it. You cannot tell yourself to release aggressive thoughts if you think it is wrong to free them, so you must come to grips with your beliefs in all instances.
Jane Roberts
#89. There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.
Chris Prentiss
#90. Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
Harold Kushner
#91. The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.
Leo Babauta
#92. When confidence is deemed arrogance..
Happiness and joy deemed showing off self..
Strong words deemed mere big talk and rhetoric..
Small minds..only time will prove and show the truth..
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#93. Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
Andrew Young
#94. The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
Arthur C. Brooks
#95. I should have known that I wasn't meant for happiness and a life of ease. I have other work to do in the world.
W. Somerset Maugham
#96. In London, there is a section in a newspaper, the Metro, where people write in and thank strangers for their lovely or kind actions throughout the week. It brings me such happiness reading it and makes me know that, ultimately, human beings are amazing.
Rosie Fellner
#97. You are loving as you think you are.
You are caring as you think you are.
Life is for endless love and for care.
Life is for joy and happiness to share.
Life is to appreciate and see beauty.
Life is to love and help the humanity.
Debasish Mridha
#98. You are not responsible for everyone's happiness.
Jacob Vargas
#99. For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.' All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#100. Those who are the most happy appear to know it the least; happiness is something that for the most part seems to mainly consist in not knowing it.
Joyce Brothers
