Top 100 That Happiness Quotes
#1. My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.
Katy Perry
#2. happiness is the precursor to success, not merely the result. And that happiness and optimism actually fuel performance and achievement - giving us the competitive edge that I call the Happiness Advantage.
Shawn Achor
#3. She believed that owning a lots of things made you a better person. She didn't know - possibly didn't want to know - that happiness comes from the inside.
Dorothy Koomson
#4. The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.
Virginia Woolf
#5. I'm happy, so I just want to project that happiness through my music to make other people happy.
ASAP Ferg
#6. Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.
Lionel Shriver
#7. I realized that happiness was not some bird that landed on your shoulder by accident, but was a skill that was taught, or not taught, in certain houses and families. After
Jewel
#8. We see that happiness is not comfort. Happiness is the freedom to choose one's own way.
Chris Matakas
#9. Nirvana occurs when you not only look forward to rapture, but also gaze back into the times of anguish and find in them the seeds of your joy. You may not have felt that happiness at the time, but in retrospect it is incontrovertible.
Andrew Solomon
#10. Remember that happiness is a way of travel, it's not a destination.
Cecelia Ahern
#11. I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often harmful even to ourselves; but our abilities are permanent, and their demands never cease.
Madame De Stael
#12. The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the same as God Himself, and which is the aim and purpose of all that happens in the world.
Josef Pieper
#13. It's a really skewed part of our culture that happiness is the end-all be-all. The people that force themselves to be happy all the time often end up being the most broken.
Mary Lambert
#14. I want to believe that happiness might at least be possible later on in life for people prone to sadness.
Matthew Quick
#15. E. Lawrence wrote that "happiness is absorption": I
Michael Lipson
#16. I like to believe that you don't need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I prefer to think that happiness is always there, and that when things don't go the way we might like them to, it's a sign from above that something even better is right around the corner.
David Archuleta
#17. Depression is not an absence of happiness, it's a feeling that happiness may never return.
Steven Aitchison
#18. I guess when we're happy, it's easier to go with the flow, and when that happiness or joy is interrupted, that's when we get contemplative and break out the guitar or pen and write about it.
Jeremy Fisher
#19. If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
Anais Nin
#20. No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Helen Keller
#21. I want him to be happy. And I want you to be happy, too. Even if you can only find that happiness without me.
S.J. Watson
#22. But still, even now, to think of it, I feel something akin to that happiness. And I've more reason now than ever to say that happiness is not what I will ever know, or will ever deserve to know. I am not so much in love with happiness. Yet the name Paris makes me feel it.
Anne Rice
#23. Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
Oliver Goldsmith
#24. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.
Daniel Kahneman
#25. If you think that happiness means total peace, you will never be happy. Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace. It will always be in conflict. If you accept that, everything gets a lot better.
Joss Whedon
#26. Much of modern life is based upon a false logic, a logic that assumes that happiness and well-being come from financial prosperity.
Nic Marks
#27. Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds that happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#28. 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. Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning and enrichment, emotion and cognition.
Paul Kurtz
#30. How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once
through inexperience, as we now perceive
we missed that happiness we might have found!
William Cowper
#31. Nothing is so charming as the ruddy tints that happiness can shed around a garret room.
Victor Hugo
#32. Happiness will come through the practice of yoga and Buddhism, that happiness is not something you will lose at the end of this lifetime. It will stay with you.
Frederick Lenz
#33. He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.
Alain De Botton
#34. Understanding that everything is impermanent, that happiness is transformed into suffering, and that all phenomena are lacking reality in themselves and are only projections of our mind, will permit us to counteract the first hindrance to meditation, that is, our attachment to this world.
Bokar Rinpoche
#35. I hope you find, as I did, that happiness comes from noticing and enjoying the little things in life.
Barbara Ann Kipfer
#36. I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
Gustave Flaubert
#37. People assume that happiness stems from collecting things outside of yourself, whereas true happiness stems from removing things from inside of yourself
Dalai Lama
#38. Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.
Anne Frank
#39. I suppose you don't stand much if a chance if you think that happiness us the absence of unhappiness,' he said. 'Good luck ever being happy, then.
Deb Caletti
#40. I believe that happiness can be found. If I thought otherwise, I should be silent and not make unhappiness the more bitter by discussing it.
Carl Hilty
#41. My message is that happiness is the first principle of life. But you must choose it. We all have pain, but suffering is a choice. You can be happier if you make some changes in your life.
Alexandra Stoddard
#42. The lie that happiness is about borrowing money you haven't got to buy crap you don't need," says Ian. "The lie that we live in a democratic state. And the most weaselly lie of all, that there is no class war.
David Mitchell
#43. I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.
Martin Seligman
#44. Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity.
Frank Pittman
#45. Satan would have you believe that happiness comes only as you surrender to his enticements, but one only needs to look at the shattered lives of those who violate God's laws to know why Satan is called the Father of Lies.
Ezra Taft Benson
#46. Loving someone selflessly would mean sharing their happiness whether you are part of that happiness or not.
Sandhya Jane
#47. Most people chase success at work, thinking that will make them happy. The truth is that happiness at work will make you successful.
Alexander Kjerulf
#48. I came to understand that happiness and vulnerability are often the same thing.
Oliver Burkeman
#49. When one grows older one learns that happiness - complete and unadulterated happiness - comes only in moments, and must be recognized and savored to the full, for even in the happiest life, the complete joy is not always present.
Victoria Holt
#50. I couldn't imagine anything strong enough to take that happiness away.
Kiera Cass
#51. The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!
Francois Lelord
#52. Pain and illness, the deaths of those one loves, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter the fact that happiness is the norm, nor affect the tendency of the continuum to restore it, to heal it, after any disturbance.
Jean Liedloff
#53. But that happiness, no doubt, was a lie invented for the despair of all desire. She now knew the smallness of the passions that art exaggerated.
Gustave Flaubert
#54. The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?
Sebastian Faulks
#55. If you could be happy, really happy, for just a while, but you knew from the start that it would end in sadness, and bring pain afterwards, would you choose to have that happiness or would you avoid it?
Gregory David Roberts
#56. I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
Taylor Caldwell
#57. As you go into the light, you will gain a more profound happiness. That happiness will free you from the desire-aversion cycle.
Frederick Lenz
#58. 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
#59. We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Samuel Johnson
#60. The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It's just like building muscles.
Timothy Ferriss
#61. Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself ...
Alexandre Dumas
#62. To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it.
On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina.
Waiting for her.
Sarah Addison Allen
#63. One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.
Bertha Von Suttner
#64. Over the years
a great deal has to be thrown out.
The notion, for instance,
that happiness is mild and enduring,
something like a southern climate
instead of a bolt of lightning
that leaves scars
cherished a lifetime.
Hanny Michaelis
#65. I realised that you can go through times of extreme happiness, but if that happiness is not coming from a deeply rooted place, you will also be going through extreme lows of sadness.
Katrina Kaif
#66. It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
Daniel Keys Moran
#67. All life passes like a fast flowing river and how strange to see that happiness increases this speed! Yes, a happy life passes faster!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#68. Research shows that the pursuit of material wealth and achievements fails to create true happiness and that happiness depends four times as much on why we do things than on what these things bring our way. While
Chris Masi
#69. Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.
Samuel Johnson
#70. I used to be so convinced that happiness was the goal, yet all those years I was chasing after it I was unhappy in the pursuit. Maybe the goal really should be a life that values honor, duty, good work, friends and family.
Robert Downey Jr.
#72. Mama says that, happiness is from magic rays of sunshine that come down when you're feeling blue ...
Adam Sandler
#73. Because way back before you were even born there was this girl you see. And I fell in love with her. It was something that I wanted-love-not because it was expected of me, but because I found it out my self-that happiness of wanting to be with that other person.
Marianne Wiggins
#74. [God] never will institute an ordinance or give a commandment to His people that is not calculated in its nature to promote that happiness which He has designed, and which will not end in the greatest amount of good and glory to those who become the recipients of His law and ordinances.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#75. 'Unicorn Island' is the synonym for my happy place. It's a really beautiful message: that happiness is one of the hardest things you'll ever fight for, but it's the only thing worth fighting for.
Lilly Singh
#76. what I remember most of all is that I was happy - I no longer feared the school bell at the end of the day, I knew where I'd be living the next month, and no one's romantic decisions affected my life. And out of that happiness came so many of the opportunities I've had for the past twelve years.
J.D. Vance
#77. Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power, or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#78. That was why she was happy. He now knew that happiness ad kindness went together. There was not one without the other. For Jean-Guy it was a struggle. For Annie it seemed natural.
Louise Penny
#79. To learn that happiness is what brings success, and not the other
Ami Vitale
#80. But the real key to remember is that happiness is a journey, not a destination.
Robin S. Sharma
#81. He now often remembered his conversation with Prince Andrew and quite agreed with him, though he understood Prince Andrew's thoughts somewhat differently. Prince Andrew had thought and said that happiness could only be negative, but had said it with a shade of bitterness and irony
Leo Tolstoy
#82. Beware of Destination Addiction ... a preoccupation with the idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job and with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are.
Robert Holden
#83. Even then I knew that happiness was something in which to plunge headlong, and damn the torpedoes
Meg Rosoff
#84. Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Ayn Rand
#85. It is by a process of simplification carried constantly further and further that happiness is won.
John Cowper Powys
#86. Clever people have been pointing out for a long time that happiness is like good health: when it's there, you don't notice it. But when the years have passed, how you do remember happiness, oh, how you do remember it!
Mikhail Bulgakov
#87. I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.
Eric Weiner
#88. If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#90. A lot of people, especially psychoanalysts, assume that happiness can only be found in a couple - but not all of us are made for a relationship.
Stephen Grosz
#91. In her own experience she's learned that happiness and sadness find their own level no matter what's biting you, mosquitoes or meatskins.
Alden Bell
#92. Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity.
Leo Tolstoy
#93. Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#94. If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly.
Frederick Lenz
#95. Why is it that happiness can disappear in an instant but sadness stays around forever?
Marsha Qualey
#96. Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.
Francois Lelord
#97. I'm by no means an expert at giving advice on depression, but I would say that a lot of my show is about making the decision to be happy. We all think that happiness is something that just falls into our lap. But it's something you have to really work on.
Lilly Singh
#98. The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.
Dalai Lama
#99. The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.
Terry Pratchett
#100. The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
Walter Benjamin
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