Happiness Quotes

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. 
- Abraham Lincoln -

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
- Albert Einstein -

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
- Allan K. Chalmers -

As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. 
- Andrew Delbanco -

Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery.
- Anne Frank -

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 -

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
- Aristotle -

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
- Author Unknown -

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
- Author Unknown –

In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself.
- Author Unknown -

To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion ...
- Author Unknown -

Joy is a flower that blooms when you do. 
- Author Unknown -

Happiness is the feeling you're feeling when you want to keep feeling it. 
- Author Unknown -

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara de Angelis -

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. 
- Bertrand Russell -

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.
- Blaise Pascal -

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
- Buddha -

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills -

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
- C. S. Lewis -

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. 
- Charles Kingsley -

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
- Charlie Chaplin -

Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.
- Channing Pollock -

There is only one success - to spend your life in your own way.
- Christopher Morley -

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. 
- Cynthia Nelms -

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
- Dalai Lama -

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
- Dalai Lama -

We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.
- Dalai Lama -

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
- Dale Carnegie -

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
- Dale Carnegie -

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place.  But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. 
- E.L. Konigsburg -

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. 
- Edith Wharton -

Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches.
- Elbert Green Hubbard -

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
- Eric Hoffer -

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.
- Faye Wattleton -

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin Roosevelt -

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
- Frederick Keonig -

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now. 
- Gerald Jampolsky -

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.
- Gittel Hudnick -

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
- Hafiz of Persia -

Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying "Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself." If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm ambitious for that, too.
- Harrison Ford -

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller -

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller -

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford -

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor ? poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.
- Herbert N. Casson -

Happiness is a form of courage. 
- Holbrook Jackson -

People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel.
- Irwin Federman -

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