150+ Happiness Quotes That'll Instantly Boost Your Mood

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

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

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

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

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