Top 100 Happiness Quotes

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Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.

Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but ...2

Giving is the secret to a healthy life. Not necessarily money, but whatever a person has to give of encouragement, sympathy, and understanding.

3

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.

There is no path to Happiness. Happiness is the path. There is no ...4

There is no path to Happiness. Happiness is the path. There is no path to Love. Love is the path. There is no path to Peace. Peace is the path.

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Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

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The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.

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I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

9

Happiness is living by inner purpose.

10

The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings.

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.11

Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to ...12

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

13

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

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The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.

15

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, ...16

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.17

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

18

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.

19

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

20

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

21

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

22

Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept in the road of life through stern necessity by elemental duties which they cannot avoid.

23

If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.

24

What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?

25

I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.

26

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

27

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

28

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

29

On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.

30

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

31

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

32

It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.

33

What is the most profitable? Fellowship with the good. What is the worst thing in the world? The society of evil men. What is the greatest loss? Failure in one?s duty. Where is the greatest peace? In truth and righteousness. Who is the hero? The man who subdues his senses. Who is the best beloved? The faithful wife. What is wealth? Knowledge. What is the most perfect happiness? Staying at home.

34

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

35

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

36

The quality of your life is determined by how you feel at any given moment.How you feel is determined by how you interpret what is happening around you,not by the the events themselves.

37

With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis.

38

The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

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Just remember... it doesn't matter how long you have known each other.. all that matters is that he has kept you smiling from day one

40

What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.

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We forge the chains we wear in life.

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Don't limit investing to the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.

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Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

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Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.

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Happiness comes from our response to the conditions of our lives.

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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

47

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

48

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

49

What an exciting super-tomorrow it will be! Americans are today making the greatest scientific developments in our history. That is a promise of new levels of employment, industrial activity and human happiness.

50

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.

51

The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.

52

There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.

53

Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind.

54

It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because our interests are inextricably linked, we are compelled to accept ethics as the indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

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Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.

57

It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.

58

A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.

59

If you have a golf-ball-sized consciousness, when you read a book, you'll have a golf-ball-sized understanding; when you look out a window, a golf-ball-sized awareness, when you wake up in the morning, a golf-ball-sized wakefulness; and as you go about your day, a golf-ball-sized inner happiness. But if you can expand that consciousness, make it grow, then when you read about that book, you'll have more understanding; when you look out, more awareness; when you wake up, more wakefulness; as you go about your day, more inner happiness.

60

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

61

If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up.

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Thinking happy thoughts literally creates a positive chemical change in the brain which stimulates both positive physical and psychological benefits.

63

Why are we here? We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We are here to nourish the self.

64

The healthiest response to life is joy.

65

You don't need others to change in order to be happy.

66

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

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If you equate happiness with success, you will never achieve the amount of success necessary to make you happy.

68

Happiness is not an end - it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.

69

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

70

Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.

71

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

72

Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow

73

If you're an adult and still think material wealth leads to happiness, might I suggest not being a moron.

74

The expectation of happiness creates a lot of unhappiness.

75

I'm pretty happy for someone who struggles with happiness.

76

Man is happy only as he finds work worth doing - and does it well

77

It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.

78

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

79

Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.

80

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

81

Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.

82

I think there is a serious corruption in the idea sold through advertising that you can attain spiritual peace through lifestyle and the notion of building your happiness from the outside-in by acquiring things . . . which if you think about it, is the essence of advertising

83

Start each day in my peace and stillness, then you can go forth and face whatever the day may bring in perfect peace and joy.

84

Be like a very small joyous child, living gloriously in the ever present now, without a single worry or concern about even the next moment of time.

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Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches.

86

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

87

There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

88

There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.

89

Never limit your view of life by any past experience.

90

Being happy is the cornerstone of all that you are! Nothing is more important than that you feel good! And you have absolute and utter control about that because you can choose the thought that makes you worry or the thought that makes you happy; the things that thrill you, or the things that worry you. You have the choice in every moment.

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You're always on your way somewhere. The key is: find a way to be happy wherever you now are on your way to where you really want to be. (We're speaking of the state of being you want.) It does not matter where you are; where you are is shifting constantly - but you must turn your attention to where you want to go. And that's the difference between making the best of something and making the worst of something.

92

Always, when you know what you don't want, that's when the rocket of desire is born of what you do want. That is the fruit of your experience. Now pluck it and savor it and enjoy it. Visualize it, and find the feeling place of it. And live happily ever after, once you get the hang of this.

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If you're not thinking about a negative thought, your vibration is going to raise to its natural positive place.

94

I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.

95

we are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves.

96

Happiness hates the timid. So does science.

97

There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.

98

Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily. Live enthusiastically, knowing that God does not dwell in gloom and melancholy, but in light and love.

99

You must not allow yourselves to become discouraged. Missionary work brings joy, optimism, and happiness. Don't give Satan an opportunity to discourage you. Here again, work is the answer. The Lord has given us a key by which we can overcome discouragement: "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

100

Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an eye to what may succeed, certainly are more liable to disappointment, misfortune and unhappiness, than those who give up their fate to chance and take the goods and evils of fortune as they come, without making happiness their study, or misery their foresight.

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