Top 100 Happiness Quotes

1

I never smile unless I mean it.

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A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.

3

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

4

You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience.

5

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

6

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

7

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

8

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

9

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

10

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.

Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with ...11

Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I'm happy.

12

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.

13

Nothing contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.

14

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue ...15

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

16

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

18

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

19

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

20

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over.21

Yes... it wasn't over, it still isn't over.

22

Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.

23

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

24

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and ...25

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.

26

The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.

27

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

28

Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.

29

Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.

30

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

31

Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.

32

REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.

33

Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did.

34

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

35

Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness because if you do you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.

36

If you want to be happy, you will be.

37

A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

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Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

39

Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.

40

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

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Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

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Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

43

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

44

There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.

45

Don't get bogged down with all the details of how it's going to come together. Just do the dishes. And watch the momentum build.

46

Most of your happiness will come from your relationships with others. Handle them with care.

47

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.

48

Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

49

Happiness is not something that you pursue; it is something that you allow. Happiness is just being.

50

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

51

Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be.

52

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.

53

It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.

54

Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.

55

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

56

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

57

You search endlessly for permanent happiness in a world where nothing is permanent.

58

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

59

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.

60

The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.

61

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

62

To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.

63

There is a new survey out about the happiest professions. I think the whole premise is flawed. You're supposed to find true happiness outside of work. From friends, family, and YouTube videos of old people falling down.

64

True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

65

A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility

66

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I'm not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.

67

If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

68

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.

69

Although you can find certain differences among the Buddhist philosophical schools about how the universe came into being, the basic common question addressed is how the two fundamental principles-external matter and internal mind or consciousness-although distinct, affect one another. External causes and conditions are responsible for certain of our experiences of happiness and suffering. Yet we find that it is principally our own feelings, our thoughts and our emotions, that really determine whether we are going to suffer or be happy.

70

Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.

71

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

72

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.

73

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

74

To praise is an investment in happiness.

75

A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.

76

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition.

77

Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.

78

The healthiest response to life is joy.

79

For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design.

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It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

81

Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid claim to.

82

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.

83

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

84

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

85

Allow yourself to be happy right now, even if outside circumstances seem imperfect. Waiting for everything to be "perfect" means delaying the happiness that you are meant to enjoy now. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy this very moment . . .now.

86

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

87

The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.

88

Happiness is a carnival game. It's never as easy as it looks, but the dumb ones always seem to be walking around with a big stuffed animal.

89

Money can't buy happiness, unless you're favorite hooker's name is 'Happiness'.

90

Home was quite a place when people stayed there.

91

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

92

Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.

93

I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.

94

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

95

Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches.

96

In the evaluation of the dominant moods of any historical period it is important to hold fast to the fact that there are always islands of self-sufficient order — on farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters — where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives: as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

97

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

98

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.

99

Your happiness is the most significant contribution that you could make. In your reaching for happiness, you are opening a vortex which makes you an avenue for the Well-being to flow through you. And anything that is your object of attention under those conditions, benefits by the infusion of your Well-being.

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

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