Top 100 To Happiness Quotes
#1. The secret to happiness is to never make it dependent on that which can be taken away
Yasmin Mogahed
#3. To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey
#5. The path to happiness at work starts with a simple decision: You must want to be happy. If you don't commit to being happy at work, you won't be. You won't make the choices that make you happy. You won't take the actions needed to get there. You won't change the things that need to change.
Alexander Kjerulf
#6. Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.
Mark Twain
#7. Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.
Michael Kimmelman
#8. I once read that the secret to happiness is having something to do, something to look forward to, and someone to love.
Richard Paul Evans
#9. The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.
Richard Rohr
#10. Having the right to happiness means having the right to earn it, not having it given to you without effort and action on your part.
Jillian Michaels
#11. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
Ajahn Chah
#12. When you hear the call to happiness, it is your responsibility to answer it.
Britt Reints
#13. One of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it.
J. E. Buckrose
#14. The first step to happiness and personal mastery is to start now.
Robbie Vorhaus
#15. Jesus is moved to happiness every time He sees that you appreciate what He has done for you. Grip His pierced hand and say to Him, 'I thank Thee, Saviour, because Thou has died for me.' Thank Him likewise for all the other blessings He has showered upon you from day to day. It brings joy to Jesus.
Ole Hallesby
#16. It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.
Herbie Hancock
#17. I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of WORK, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in the organised diminution of work.
Bertrand Russell
#18. Normal was in the eye of the beholder, and sometimes the path to happiness involved bushwhacking and slicing and carving it until it yielded to individual desires. It wasn't simple, and there was no getting through it unscathed from the bleeding prick of thorns along the way.
Darien Cox
#19. Not having the best situation,
but
seeing the best in your situation
is
the key to happiness.
Marie Forleo
#20. So, that's the secret to happiness? Don't tak life seriously?" I ask.
"No," she says. "Take life seriously. That you have to do. Don't take yourself seriously, that's the key. Let it all go. Don't care for a second what people think of you. In fact, go out of your way to keep them guessing.
Katie Kacvinsky
#21. Human beings are wired to care and give and it's probably our best route to happiness.
Dacher Keltner
#22. When it comes to happiness, remember, it is experiences that represent really good value for the money.
Richard Wiseman
#23. With emotions ranging from fear, grief and anger to happiness and relief, the process of bringing home a child who needs in-home care can be complicated
Charisse Montgomery
#24. I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling, but I'll settle for second best.
Wilbur Smith
#25. If romeo was really gone, never coming back, would it have mattered whether or not juliet had taken Paris up on his offer? Maybe she should have tried to settle into the left-over scraps of life that were left behind. Maybe that would have been as close to happiness as she could get.
Stephenie Meyer
#26. The "18/40/60" rule to happiness:
At age 18, people care very much about what others think of them.
By age 40, they learn not to worry what others think.
By age 60, they figure out that no one was thinking about them in the first place.
Daniel Amen
#28. Yet we are constantly annoyed, and the legislatures are kept constantly busy, by the people who have made up their minds that it is wise and conducive to happiness to live in a certain way, and who want to compel everybody else to live in their way.
William Graham Sumner
#29. Life is from zero to one, sorrow to pain and love to happiness, passing all along with smile on face despite grief and unhappiness, deep below lies the quenching heart, which is flowing with energy and bloody rain.
Santosh Kalwar
#30. My research had revealed that challenge and novelty are key elements to happiness. The brain is stimulated by surprise, and successfully dealing with an unexpected situation gives a powerful sense of satisfaction.
Gretchen Rubin
#31. The key to happiness is...
...to hide the damn key in a place that only you can access.
Mansi Laus Deo
#32. . . . it is written, 'Be holy, for I am holy.'" 1 Peter 1:16 We must continually remind ourselves of the purpose of life. We are not destined to happiness, nor to health, but to holiness.
Oswald Chambers
#33. No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.
Glenn Beck
#34. Remind yourself daily that there is no way to happiness; rather, happiness is the way.
Wayne W. Dyer
#35. This is the whole secret of the practice of Elementalism: it obtains happiness by the most rigid and austere simplification of the means to happiness.
John Cowper Powys
#36. If your enemy is happy, then why would they be bothered to be your enemy? Being someone's enemy is no fun. It does not add to happiness.
Robert Thurman
#39. The Key to Happiness is to be FREE to BE what you want to BE!-RVM
R.v.m.
#40. This was life's purpose, the secret to happiness: love and family.
L.G. Castillo
#41. If you're an adult and still think material wealth leads to happiness, might I suggest not being a moron.
Dov Davidoff
#42. This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
Michael Korda
#43. I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#44. I can tell you the secret to happiness in one word: progress.
Tony Robbins
#45. Those might not be the very best judges of the relation of religion to happiness who, by their own account, had neither one nor the other.
G.K. Chesterton
#46. A little madness shows the way to happiness.
A little kindness can heal the sadness.
Debasish Mridha
#47. Everything we do should contribute to happiness.
Sharon Gannon
#48. Happiness doesn't come and go, what comes and goes is your attunement to happiness.
Robert Holden
#49. I say to my children, the reason that marriage - and having children - is so important is that it stops you thinking about yourself. The way to happiness is to give yourself to others and to think of others before you think of yourself.
Terry Wogan
#50. One key to happiness, then, is to forestall the adaptation process: We need to take steps to prevent ourselves from taking for granted, once we get them, the things we worked so hard to get.
William B. Irvine
#51. The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.
Robert Breault
#52. Negative thoughts are an obstacle to happiness;
positive thoughts are a bridge to greatness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#53. When it comes to happiness, our soul is like a colander, a tire with a nail in it, our grandfather's memory. It feels like there is a homeless person inside of us, wandering around pushing a shopping cart.
John Eldredge
#54. How do we get our values so mixed up? We look for shortcuts to happiness. Our lust for immediate pleasure prompts us to think of evil as good.
Billy Graham
#55. The secret to happiness is to live in the present moment with gratitude and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#56. Peace is a road to happiness and the future.
War is a road to destruction and death.
Debasish Mridha
#57. The road to happiness is paved with good deeds for others.
Lisa Schroeder
#58. To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.
Mary, Queen Of Scots
#59. A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.
Aristotle.
#61. Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.
Ann Brashares
#62. ...the only way to happiness is to find people with whom you can eat, drink and laugh. That is everything
Janice Macleod
#63. Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.
Sarah Orne Jewett
#64. If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs- if you lack basic self trust, self-respect, and self-confidence- your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.
Nathaniel Branden
#66. You've got to find your bearing and stick to it. It's the road to happiness in this life.
K.E. Hoover
#67. Peace and Love is the Goal on the Way to Happiness
Jan Jansen
#68. Part of the problem with positive thinking, and many related approaches to happiness, is exactly this desire to reduce big questions to one-size-fits-all self-help tricks or ten point plans.
Oliver Burkeman
#69. Maybe the secret to happiness is simplicity.
Amy Harmon
#70. Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.
Nancy Etcoff
#71. The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles.
Bertrand Russell
#73. The road to happiness is always under construction. But no worries, my SUV has four wheel drive. Let's rock this." -
Celia Kyle
#74. I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values, and our own interests.
Gretchen Rubin
#75. The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.
David Brooks
#76. Gratitude leads to happiness. Conversely, lack of gratitude is the curse of the unhappy.
Konosuke Matsushita
#77. There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
Pindar
#78. Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).
Wendy Beckett
#79. For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.
Dean Koontz
#80. When it was all over
the centuries started
to roll by
and history was written
by those
with no stories
misery turned into myth
and figures of speech
played catalyst
to happiness
Banoo Zan
#81. The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.
Bertrand Russell
#82. Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").
Friedrich Nietzsche
#83. If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#84. If there were two doors, one labeled, Door to Happiness, and the other labeled, Committee to Study How to be Happy, most of us would attend the committee meeting.
David W. Earle
#85. Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. It takes courage to hold on to happiness.
Novala Takemoto
#86. How important is excitement to happiness? The key is to get excited about the mundane
not just extraordinary things
Dennis Prager
#88. The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Bertrand Russell
#89. May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.
Abigail Adams
#90. Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you.
Dalai Lama
#91. The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.
L. Ron Hubbard
#92. There is no easy or quick plan to happiness, there is no single spot where you can start. Where you are right now is the best place to begin.
Mark Twain
#93. We simply prefer to deny death or tragedy at all costs and, with it, a fundamental aspect of life. We do this instead of acknowledging that suffering represents one of the strongest incentives of life, which is the base of human solidarity and what brings intensity to happiness.
Claudia Llosa
#94. It's the secret to happiness, you know. Only take what you need.
Adriana Trigiani
#95. It is your choice to be happy. Make up your mind to enjoy this day, to have a blessed, prosperous, victorious year. You may have some setbacks and your circumstances may change, but don't let that change your mind. Keep it set to happiness.
Joel Osteen
#96. The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.
Euripides
#97. Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
Charles Caleb Colton
#98. Remember: success does not lead to happiness - it's the other way around.
Jeff Olson
#99. He is learning to love me unconditionally, under all my conditions. I think we are finally on our way to happiness. I have finally figured it out.
Gillian Flynn
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