Quotes About Happiness In Life

#1. H = L + F + G
Dedicated to those of us in need of a mathematical equation to explain the key to happiness in life.
Simply put, it means Happiness = Look for Good
Ie. Look for the good in life ... the silver lining in each of our experiences.

Lee Bice-Matheson

#2. The living are always trying to find the shortcuts to happiness in life. But look what happens when someone achieves premature success: they bloom too early and spend the rest of their lives dying....Success without struggle warps a person.

Susan Wells Bennett

#3. Even the darkest cloud had a silver lining; you can either miss it as you run away to a hiding place as darkness approaches you or you can go seeking it, empowered with the ardent desire to find happiness in life.

Maliny Mohan

#4. The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs.

Joyce Carol Oates

#5. It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else ...

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can't expect years and years of it.

Donatella Versace

#7. Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

#8. The one true happiness in life is to love and to be loved

George W. Sands

#9. I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.

Timothy Ferriss

#10. Maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.

Nicholas Sparks

#11. What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.

Chris Evans

#12. Being your authentic self is the ultimate secret to happiness in life!

Sheri Fink

#13. There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"
I forget where.

Laurence Sterne

#14. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

George Sand

#15. He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others ...

Jon Krakauer

#16. I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.

Meryl Streep

#17. There are only 2 paths to happiness in life. Utter Stupidity or Exceptional Wealth.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#18. Serenity of mind brings joy and happiness in life.

Debasish Mridha

#19. Happiness in life is all about three things - something to do, someone to love, and something to look forward to.

Brad Thor

#20. Only idiots will be able to attain happiness in life!

Nana Haruta

#21. Whether we walk among our people or alone among the hills, happiness in life's walking depends on how we feel about others in our hearts.

Anasazi Foundation

#22. Real happiness in life comes from the mental capacity to adapt to any situation.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#23. The greatest happiness in life is to be truly and consistently creative.

Peter Koestenbaum

#24. THE SUPREME HAPPINESS IN LIFE IS THE CONVICTION THAT WE ARE LOVED V. HUGO

Victor Hugo

#25. Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.

Dorothy Parker

#26. There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

Frederick Delius

#27. You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost.

Eileen Caddy

#28. When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.

Charles Simic

#29. No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.

Gautama Buddha

#30. The ability to concentrate singlemindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status, and happiness in life. This key insight is the heart and soul of this book. This

Brian Tracy

#31. One secret of happiness in life is to know the very basic of life economy, deciding what kind of life you want and knowing how much you need to achieve just that. The earlier you know how much is enough the better and happier you will be in life.

Tim I. Gurung

#32. I find my own happiness in life...other people are not necessary.

Natalie De Clare

#33. We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

#34. Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Linus Pauling

Linus Pauling

#35. There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#36. I think you're wrong there. It feels selfish at the time, because the pain is excruciating, but there is no nobility in hanging on to something that is miserable and false. We have to fight for our happiness in life.

Kate Mulgrew

#37. 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

#38. Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige,
or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on
academic abilities, ignoring the emotional intelligence that also
matters immensely for our personal destiny.

Daniel Goleman

#39. Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.

Kate Morton

#40. Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

Euripides

#41. You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing," he was saying; "but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so ... yes, love! ...

Leo Tolstoy

#42. You can enjoy a deep sense of satisfaction and happiness in life despite challenging circumstances. It's all in how you think about it.

Kristi Bowman

#43. A woman had to choose her own particular unhappiness carefully. That was the only happiness in life: to choose the best unhappiness. An unwise move, good God, you could squander everything.

Lorrie Moore

#44. Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#45. Tranquility, serenity, and beauty of nature taught me how to find happiness in life and in the silence of eternity.

Debasish Mridha

#46. The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or moreover, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

#47. We need to move into a culture of peace. What I hope to promote is the idea that we all need each other and that the greatest happiness in life is not how much we have but how much we give. That's a wealth that's priceless. You can't buy compassion.

Herbie Hancock

#48. Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

O. Henry

#49. We were all put on this earth to be happy and we all deserve to be. Don't let anyone or anything steal your happiness in life!

Timothy Pina

#50. In actuality, we don't look for smiles in pictures of bliss, but rather, for the happiness in life itself. Painters know this, but this is preciously what they cannot depict. That's why they substitute the joy of seeing for the joy of life.

Orhan Pamuk

#51. My child, may you live happily forever. May you experience great success and happiness in life! But you will never be able to experience bliss. For, the one who sins cannot attain bliss, he might get everything in his life but not bliss ~ Gayatri Kashyap

Kirtida Gautam

#52. The paradox of acceptance: When our mind becomes less attached and dependent on things being a certain way our happiness in life dramatically improves.

Lee L Jampolsky

#53. 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

#54. A wave of intense happiness washed over me, and I told myself to carry this moment as a talisman of a time in my life when I was both truly content and lucky enough to realize it.

Heather Cocks

#55. In order to live the life we desire, and set the intention for greater happiness and more meaningful connections with others, we have to release the hold that our past has on us.

Deepak Chopra

#56. Though one may acquire much in wealth, fame, or honor, the real joy of life does not lie there but, rather, in keeping the romance of living going. Nothing gives such complete and profound happiness as the perpetually fresh wonder and mystery of exciting life.

Norman Vincent Peale

#57. We can bring peace in the world, not by eliminating violence in the world, but by finding the causes of violence and by preventing those from infecting the society.

Debasish Mridha

#58. When you have received Him, stir up your heart to do Him homage; speak to Him about your spiritual life, gazing upon Him in your soul where He is present for your happiness; welcome Him as warmly as possible, and behave outwardly in such a way that your actions may give proof to all of His Presence.

Saint Francis De Sales

#59. Book collecting! First editions and best editions; old books and new books - the ones you like and want to have around you. Thousands of 'em. I've had more honest satisfaction and happiness collecting books than anything else I've ever done in life.

Peter Ruber

#60. You are just as worthy, deserving, and capable of creating and sustaining extraordinary health, wealth, happiness, love, and success in your life, as any other person on earth.

Hal Elrod

#61. Are you the dove or the statue?
Soaring with the eagles leaving the turkeys behind.
May our highest Supreme Being be with you and give you lots of Real Love and Happiness in your life.

Harry Monarch

#62. Happiness is your inherent nature. In the hustle and bustle of life, you have forgotten a part of yourself, and looking for it outside. Fill this void with happiness that is sustainable, not transitory; that illuminates your life and that of others, that is life giving and so natural.

Sanchita Pandey

#63. Everything around you will vanish and go away.
Only your expressed love will live forever in the Milky Way.

Debasish Mridha

#64. Find joy and gratitude in today,
make every day in life a holiday.

Debasish Mridha

#65. Life is meaningless until we learn to use the power of divine love and see the divine in every event and in every beauty.

Debasish Mridha

#66. The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

Herman Wouk

#67. A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, "Stop trying to make me like you," and what a sobering and welcome smack in the face that statement was. Yet somehow, every day of my life is still a campaign for popularity, or better yet, a crowded funeral.

John Waters

#68. Not many are the moments in life, where the easiest choice also happens to be the best one.
Cherish and remember those moments, but do not let them become a habit, for the fruits that hard work reaps are irreplaceable.

Rosen Topuzov

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

Goswami Kriyananda

#70. What a pleasant life could be had in this world by a handsome, sensible old lady of good fortune, blessed with a sound constitution and a firm will

Stella Gibbons

#71. In the darkness, be the light.

Debasish Mridha

#72. The point of simple living, for me has got to be:
A soft place to land
A wide margin of error
Room to breathe
Lots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day

Leo Babauta

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

Brian D'Ambrosio

#74. 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

#75. Oh beloved,
I want to live in your love,
to feel the joy of life,
to see the beauty of desires,
to enjoy the song of heart,
to dance with you, my love.

Debasish Mridha

#76. 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.

#77. It is always a foolish thing to contemplate suicide; for no matter how dark the future may appear today, tomorrow may hold for us that which will alter our whole life in an instant, revealing to us nothing but sunshine and happiness. So, for my part, I shall always wait for tomorrow.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#78. 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

#79. Chain of envy linked them, showing each what was lacking in life, but offering also the consolation that happiness was present right next door, in the life of a neighbour, an element of the same society.

Aravind Adiga

#80. In my long life I have found peace, joy, and happiness beyond my fondest hopes and dreams. One of the supreme benedictions of my life has been my marriage to an elect daughter of God. I love her with all my heart and soul.

James E. Faust

#81. In this life, no matter what you do-you will never be able to satisfy everyone. So stay true to yourself and do you. Trying to please others, you will only end up angry and dissatisfied with life.

Redd

#82. Gratitude is the combination of appreciate, love, kindness, and compassion in a beautiful heart.

Debasish Mridha

#83. I went back to my room and spent all night contemplating whether it was possible in life not to be constantly let down. If it could ever be worth pinning your happiness to another person, when all other people ever seemed to do was disappear.

Olivia Sudjic

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

Nikki Rowe

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. When I am looking for you, then in silence, your every atom is longing for me.

Debasish Mridha

#88. 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.

#89. Understand your driving force, whether you're operating out of fear or love. When we operate in fear, we tend to hold back and not get the most from life. When we operate in love, we open new avenues and experience life more abundantly.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#90. My life is never perfect, but life is always a beautiful thing. I choose to see the beauty out of it. I choose to make it wonderful. I choose to love life and it loves me back in return. I may only have one life to live, but if I do it right, once is enough.

Diana Rose Morcilla

#91. There are some things in life that just are. They are meant to be, and to fight against them is to ensure your own loss.

Theresa Smith

#92. I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour.

Emma Donoghue

#93. Embracing a life content with fewer possessions has modeled for them the important truths that personal belongings are not the key to happiness, that security is found in their character, and that the pursuit of happiness runs a different road than the pursuit of possessions.

Joshua Becker

#94. Hope is a flower bud in the garden of the mind, waiting to bloom in the morning sun.

Debasish Mridha

#95. When you are in peace with you, you will find the peace everywhere you go.

Debasish Mridha

#96. I am not upset that you don't love me, I am very happy to know that you are still living in my heart, in my love.

Debasish Mridha

#97. To fall in love is easy,
but forgetting is required to be crazy.

Debasish Mridha

#98. A good poem has rhyming but no ending, it continues to rhyme in our heart.

Debasish Mridha

#99. 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

#100. The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.

Martin Seligman