Top 100 When Happiness Quotes
#1. We are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.
Paulo Coelho
#2. When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.
Andy Stanley
#3. I've only ever leapt away
when happiness approached -
a deer caught in headlights,
or maybe a dog with its
leg bleeding in a trap.
Darshana Suresh
#4. We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.
Epicurus
#5. When happiness depends on a situation or creation, it is not happiness; it is the joy of action.
Debasish Mridha
#6. When sorrows surround you few will comfort you. When happiness arises many will be part of the celebrations
And when Tragedy happens only the Lord is a prayer by calling out his Glorious name
Sonny Cele
#7. We tend to Seek Happiness when Happiness is actually a Choice
Rodney White
#8. When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.
William James
#9. So much of my life has been twisted and painful that now when happiness floods right through me like being flooded over with warm glittering blue water, I can't believe it. I say to myself: I am Anna Wulf, this is me, Anna, and I'm happy.
Doris Lessing
#10. She'd wanted to be free, thought it was the only way to be happy, when happiness was belonging to Jonah.
Tessa Bailey
#11. When happiness becomes our standard for judging truth, things that make us happy give us permission to do some things that otherwise would be considered wrong.
Craig Groeschel
#12. And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.
Cy Twombly
#13. When happiness settles upon you like a butterfly, sit very quiet and remember the colors
Diane Lee Wilson
#14. I'll take you by the hand and show a world you can understand,this life is filled with hurt when happiness doesnt hurt.
Three Days Grace
#15. When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.
Deborah Levy
#16. I wanted a way back to swings and slides and simplicity. A way back to when a butterfly could cheer me up, and a series of puddles could make my day. A way back to a time when happiness wasn't something I had to search for ... it just was
Cora Carmack
#17. When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.
Richard Rohr
#18. We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry martini, and now we have come to the era when happiness is 'knowing what your uterus looks like'.
Nora Ephron
#19. When happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying when the happiness would be taken away.
Marian Keyes
#20. Finally, when happiness came knocking on my door, I'd be waiting. I'd open the door and say: "Where have you been? What took you so long? And if you just give me a moment I'll pack and go with you."
Constance Briscoe
#21. Never begrudge others their happiness. Who knows when happiness will be short lived?
Nancy B. Brewer
#22. When happiness gets into your system, it is bound to break out on your face. While money can't buy happiness it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. You always know, at this very moment, exactly what it would be to look, and feel, and be, and act completely Happy.
Adi Da
#23. When happiness is liked by me and others equally, what is so special about me that I should strive after happiness only for myself?
Santideva
#24. If you drink champagne when you are sad it makes you happy. If you drink champagne when you are happy you can taste the stars.
Chloe Thurlow
#25. For years of our lives the days pass waywardly, featureless, without meaning, without particular happiness or unhappiness. Then, like turning over a tapestry when you have only known the back of it, there is spread the pattern.
Jane Gardam
#26. Happiness is only gained when your mind is in extended states of attention, when your mind is merging with the infinite.
Frederick Lenz
#27. When you are looking for love, then
love is spreading its net to catch you.
Debasish Mridha
#28. There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.
Paulo Coelho
#29. Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is ... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.
Donna Ball
#30. Mrs. Gruber said that happiness was not something she aspired to, that when we had seen as much of the world as she had, we would know that what lies right behind the horseshit is not a prize pony, my dears, it's more horseshit.
Amy Bloom
#31. 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
#32. When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.
C.S. Lewis
#33. My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded.
Steve Maraboli
#34. 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
#35. Are you happy?' she asked.
'Honour... I've been happy since the moment I met you.
Ruth Ahmed
#36. You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.
J.P. Donleavy
#37. From when you are young, through middle age, you must grow to the point that you glow, so that your light lets people feel the blessings, the virtues, and the happiness.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#38. When the dream that was no longer can be, you have to dream a different dream.
Christina Rasmussen
#39. Your friend Plato holds that commonwealths will only be happy when either philosophers rule or rulers philosophize: how remote happiness must appear when philosophers won't even deign to share their thoughts with kings.
Thomas More
#40. The first duty of a man is to love himself. When someone loves himself, he is loving the universe. This universe is existing because of you.
Debasish Mridha
#41. The knowledge of the Spirit is the true secret of creativity, leadership and happiness. It is spiritual intelligence that makes an ordinary person a genius. When a genius loses his spiritual intelligence, he becomes quite ordinary.
Awdhesh Singh
#42. Happiness begins when selfishness ends.
John Wooden
#43. There I was, clinging to the scraps of happiness that I could finally feel again: coffee and books and an afternoon with my best friend. What right did I have, when he was gone?
Emery Lord
#44. When the power of love overtakes all other power then we will find the true peace on earth.
Debasish Mridha
#45. Will had never wanted to fall in love. When it had happened to friends, it had always struck him as a peculiarly unpleasant-seeming experience, what with all the loss of sleep and weight, and the unhappiness when it was reciprocated, and the suspect, dippy happiness when it was working out.
Nick Hornby
#46. This huge, blinding forest fire of happiness filled my chest when I was around him.
Mariana Zapata
#47. When you have a great attitude, life will have a great destination.
Debasish Mridha
#48. When people treat you like nothing, you begin to feel like nothing.
Drake
#49. You can't care what other people think of whom you choose to love, or not to love. When it comes to your love life, it's NOT the time to be satisfying other people's opinions. The difference between what's good for you and what's good for everyone else is happiness.
Chrissy Anderson
#51. When joy is LOST, hope can easily FIND it ... It's only your HOPE, that knows the where about of your JOY! If you lose hope you lose everything!
Israelmore Ayivor
#52. When you realize how much you're worth, You'll stop giving people discounts.
Karen Salmansohn
#53. Love never dies, it become the wealth of the universe when we die.
Debasish Mridha
#54. When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.
Antonio Porchia
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?
Paul McCartney
#59. When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.
Dalai Lama
#60. When I am looking for you, then in silence, your every atom is longing for me.
Debasish Mridha
#61. There Bomar is, wherever he is, spending a fortune every day on liquor and beautiful women and expensive playthings, when he could find peace of mind right here with us, for a mere twenty cents.
Bomar
Kurt Vonnegut
#62. You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.
Shah Rukh Khan
#63. Though most tourists accepted the occasional comic misadventure, it was important to them that overall their vacation should be pleasant. When you spend money on a holiday you are essentially purchasing happiness: if you don't enjoy yourself you will feel defrauded.
Alison Lurie
#64. When we will learn to use the power of kindness and love we will fill the world with peace and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#65. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness ... but only when you pay your taxes? That means your freedom is rented, leased, & not unalienable.
Steve Maraboli
#66. When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#67. 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
#68. Happiness comes in many forms - in the company of good friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else's dream come true, or in the promise of hope renewed. It's okay to let yourself be happy because you never know how fleeting that happiness might be.
Lucas Scott
#69. Your happiness depends on people around you and people you love, but peace of mind you alone can cultivate. Never loose your peace of mind even when unhappy.
Bajju
#70. Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
Ayn Rand
#71. Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.
Albert Schweitzer
#72. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
#73. When you enter the world of laughter, you enter the world of fantasy and creativity.
Thomas Flindt
#74. Happiness is the only thing that when you give it, you get it in return.
Ashwin Sanghi
#75. We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
Ethel Percy Andrus
#76. When you are in peace with you, you will find the peace everywhere you go.
Debasish Mridha
#77. When Jesus taught that the kingdom of heaven is within, he was pointing out a path to happiness of the highest order.
Deepak Chopra
#78. Alexandra sighed. I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours, if you care enough about me to take it.
Willa Cather
#79. Happiness is the freedom of choice. The freedom to choose where to live, what to do, what to buy, what to sell, from whom, to whom, when and how.
Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin
#80. 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
#81. Whole world is simply sleeping when the world inside you is still awake with a thought of love.
Jitendra Bhardwaj
#82. The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate your happiness - celebrate your happiness, even when she's not necessarily happy herself.
Sarah Jio
#83. The moment of realization is: When what you thought you couldn't be without, becomes a part of the past, rather than the start of the future.
Melody Carstairs
#84. When you know your role in life, living makes sense because of clarity, and the loads become enjoyable to carry.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#85. The world will see the peace when we will understand that there are no enemies but there are friends who don't understand me.
Debasish Mridha
#86. When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.
Dale Carnegie
#87. when the soul is transported, the only virtue lies in loving what you see (is that not true?), the supreme happiness in having what you have;
Umberto Eco
#88. Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
E. M. Forster
#89. When you really want to help someone, express your love. With kind words, touch their heart and give a sincere compliment.
Debasish Mridha
#90. When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery.
Niger Innis
#91. It's not attractive when girls get superskinny. Guys don't like it. Girls don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about.
Hilary Duff
#92. 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
#93. I'm not sure about 'absolute' happiness, but I am happiest when I go to bed at night knowing that I tried to do my best that day.
Donald Ray Pollock
#94. I always knew what was most important to me. When I was growing up, nothing was more important than golf, but that's the attitude of a young person who hasn't a care in the world. Later on I figured it out. Family was first. Always. Then golf and business come after.
Arnold Palmer
#95. I enjoy the healing music and touch of love, touching my heart and soul when I give it away.
Debasish Mridha
#96. If you surround yourself with clowns, don't be surprised when your life resembles a circus.
Steve Maraboli
#97. When something flipping out to the worse, don't feel bad. But be strong and make yourself hard so that the situations stop taking chance to hurt you.
Giridhar Alwar
#98. When you forgive and love your enemy, you are always the winner.
Debasish Mridha
#99. A best friend is he who hurts you with their love and feels you when you're hurt.
Debasish Mridha
#100. When you can't focus on one thing, you will be distracted by anything.
Debasish Mridha
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