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.

When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.

Stephen Richards

When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is forward and through it.

Stephen Richards

I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes

Jeremy Aldana

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

Deepak Chopra

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

Yesterday I was sad, today I am happy! Yesterday I had a problem, today I still have the same problem! But today I changed the way I look at it!

C. JoyBell C.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

William Faulkner

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

Sigmund Freud

There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

Sarah Addison Allen

We are one of those couples i used to watch, thinking to myself that I'd never be on the inside of something so special. I remember reassuring myself that it probably looked nicer than it actually was, I am happy to be wrong about that.

Emily Giffin

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

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

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

Marlene Dietrich

In the midst of happiness or despairin sorrow or in joyin pleasure or in pain:Do what is right and you will be at peace.

Jess Rothenberg

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

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

E.L. Konigsburg

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

Jane Austen

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Martha Washington

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

Jane Austen

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.

Thich Nhat Hanh

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

Thich Nhat Hanh

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)

Thich Nhat Hanh

What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.

Anaïs Nin

Sometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again.

Thisuri Wanniarachchi

If you wish to be happy,Eragon, Think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and that which you are able to change

Christopher Paolini

Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness.

Marie Forleo

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

H.L. Mencken

Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.

Daisaku Ikeda

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

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

Jane Austen

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.

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

Jane Austen

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

Socrates

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

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

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