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.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.

John Chrysostom

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

John Irving

I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

Jonathan Safran Foer

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Joseph Addison

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

I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

L. Frank Baum

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

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

It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

Lemony Snicket

The point of simple living, for me has got to be:A soft place to landA wide margin of errorRoom to breatheLots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day

Leo Babauta

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

Luther Burbank

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

Marcel Pagnol

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

Margaret Atwood

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

Marie Rutkoski

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

Marilyn Monroe

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.

Mark Strand

I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

Marlene Dietrich

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.

Martha Washington

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Mother Teresa

A woman laughing is a woman conquered.

Napoléon Bonaparte

...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

She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues.

Nicholas Sparks

It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.

Nicholas Sparks

Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy, said my father as he watched the three beauties. But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?

Orhan Pamuk

We have to go. I'm almost happy here.

Orson Scott Card

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

Orson Scott Card

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Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

Pat Conroy

The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

Paulo Coelho

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

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

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Sarah Addison Allen

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

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Socrates

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

Stephen Fry

Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend.

Stephen Richards

Happiness is something we reap from the seeds we sow. Plant misery seeds and that us what you reap.

Stephen Richards

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