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.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

Charles Bukowski

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most.

Rodolfo Costa

Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.

Ann Brashares

They say all marriages are made in heaven, but so are thunder and lightning.

Clint Eastwood

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Haruki Murakami

Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.

Boethius

Ô, Sunlight! The most precious gold to be found on Earth.

Roman Payne

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

Gabriel García Márquez

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.

George Sand

To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

Julian Barnes

It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

Lucille Ball

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

Carlos Castaneda

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

Pearl S. Buck

Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'One grand boulevard with treeswith one grand cafe in sunwith strong black coffee in very small cups.One not necessarily very beautifulman or woman who loves you.One fine day.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

Marie Rutkoski

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.

Dorothy Parker

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

George Washington

After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.

Sebastian Barry

Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but it’s here if you choose to come back to it.

Ilona Andrews

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Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

Joanne Harris

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.

Luther Burbank

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.

Colette

For those who are poor in happiness, each time is a first time; happiness never becomes a habit.

Marilyn Monroe

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

Pete Wentz

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

Ramana Maharshi

The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness

Esther Hicks

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

Jodi Picoult

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

Douglas Adams

Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.

Irving Berlin

There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.

Shannon Hale

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

Charles Dickens

...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

Nicholas Sparks

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

Anne Frank

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

Jack Gilbert

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Stephen Fry

There are a few moments in your life when you are truly and completely happy, and you remember to give thanks. Even as it happens you are nostalgic for the moment, you are tucking it away in your scrapbook.

David Benioff

We've got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough.

Jack Johnson

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