100+ Happiness Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

Haruki Murakami

I NEVER UNDERSTOOD THE POINT OF BEING SADWHEN I COULD CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY

Megan McCafferty

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

Mother Teresa

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Napoleon Hill

dear today, i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.

Nina LaCour

Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.

Henry Miller

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

Honoré de Balzac

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

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

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

Pearl S. Buck

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.

J. Maarten Troost

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

Robert Anthony

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

Rodolfo Costa

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

Roman Payne

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

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

Jack Gilbert

Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.

Jacqueline Kelly

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

Jane Austen

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

Jane Austen

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

Jane Austen

The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.

Shannon L. Alder

When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.

Shannon L. Alder

Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.

Shannon L. Alder

I'm a happy person. If you want to be around me, you can either choose to be happy too, or follow the signs to the nearest exit!

Sharon Swan

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

Sigmund Freud

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

Sri Chinmoy

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Jane Austen

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Jane Austen

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.

Jeremy Bentham

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

Joanne Harris

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.

Stephen R. Covey

The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is only ungratefulness.

Steve Maraboli

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

William Blake

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

Jodi Picoult

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

Jodi Picoult

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