100+ Happiness Quotes & Sayings

263 Quotes

Happiness is not a destination, but it is the journey which can be experienced in each moment of life. The choice of one’s source of happiness is always in their hands.

We've collected the Best Happiness Quotes of the most inspiring, touching and helpful thoughts from the past on happiness.

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Jane Austen

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

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

Aristotle

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama XIV

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

Orson Scott Card

those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.

Alex Flinn

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

Edmund Burke

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Chuck Palahniuk

Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.

Honoré de Balzac

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.

Sylvia Plath

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

Bill Watterson

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Thomas Paine

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

Alexander McCall Smith

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

Andy Rooney

My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.

Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.

Edward Lear

A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy

John Irving

Memory is the happiness of being alone.

Lois Lowry

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Hugh Downs

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

John Keats

The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.'Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.

Chuck Palahniuk

I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness.

Hugh Laurie

I am very happyBecause I have conquered myselfAnd not the world.I am very happyBecause I have loved the worldAnd not myself.

Sri Chinmoy

I’d rather be miserable loving you than happy with anyone else.

Angela Morrison

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Hunter S. Thompson

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

William Shakespeare

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

Daniel Kahneman

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

Lauren Oliver

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.

Robin Williams

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

J.M. Barrie

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.

Doris Mortman

I'll never wake up in a good mood again.I'm tired of these stinky boots

Jim Morrison

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

G.K. Chesterton

I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.

Daniel Keyes

When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

J.M. Barrie

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

Alexandre Dumas

With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

Haruki Murakami

The secret of happiness is not doing what we like but in liking what we do.

J.M. Coetzee

Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.

Alexandre Dumas

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