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This collection the best of happiness quotes of all time to reminds us all, that you have the power to change anything about yourself and be happy.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. – Ambrose Bierce
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. – Robert S. Lynd
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. – Margaret Lee Runbeck
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. – Robert Frost
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. – Mildred Barthel
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. – Bertrand Russell
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. – J.D. Salinger
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it. – William Feather
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. – Josh Billings
Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other. – Norman Bradburn
Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time. – Robert Brault
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. – Albert Camus
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day. – W. Beran Wolfe
You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you’ll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance. – Lavetta Sue Wegman
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. – Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is the natural flower of duty. – Phillips Brooks
Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. – Epictetus
Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. – Benjamin Franklin
Some pursue happiness, others create it.
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. – Charles Caleb Colton
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. – Hosea Ballou
Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness. – Mignon McLaughlin
Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. – Robert Brault
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. – Don Marquis
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. – Denis Waitley
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Gandhi
On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. – William R. Inge
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy? – Leslie Caron
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. – Robert Brault
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. – Freya Stark
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. – Samuel Johnson
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. – Joseph Addison
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. – John Stuart Mill
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. – Maxim Gorky
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. – Georges Duhamel
If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. – Taisen Deshimaru
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. – Don Herold
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. – Anton Chekhov
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. – William Saroyan
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise. – Colette
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate. –
Thornton Wilder
One filled with joy preaches without preaching. – Mother Teresa
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. – George Bernard Shaw
You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. – Charles L. Morgan
Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. – Gretta Brooker Palmer
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. – Booth Tarkington
Happiness is the feeling you’re feeling when you want to keep feeling it.
As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. – Andrew Delbanco
The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places. – Robert Brault
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. – Joseph Roux
How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now. – Gerald Jampolsky
What I’m looking for is a blessing that’s not in disguise. – Kitty O’Neill Collins
Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking. – H.W. Byles
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. – Bertrand Russell
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. – Eric Hoffer
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. – Walter Savage Landor
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. – V.S. Pritchett
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door. – Robert Brault
Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. – Johann Pestalozzi
A happy thought is like a seed that sows positivity for all to reap. – Miriam Muhammad
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? – Yevgeny Zamyatin
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. – Lady Blessington
Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower.
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.
Happiness is a direction, not a place. – Sydney J. Harris
We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. – Frederick Keonig
Happiness is a form of courage. – Holbrook Jackson
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abraham Lincoln
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. – Logan Pearsall Smith
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. – Margaret Young
It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. – Frank McKinney “”Kin”” Hubbard
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. – H. Jackson Browne
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open. – John Barrymore
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. – James Openheim
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. – Cynthia Nelms
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. – E.L. Konigsburg
If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. – Edith Wharton
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy. – Robert Anthony
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. – Palmer Sondreal
If you want to be happy, be. – Leo Tolstoy
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. РJacques Pr̩vert
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? – Albert Einstein
By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives. – Sharon Salzberg
The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action. – Madame de Stael
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. – Andrew Carnegie
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. – Buddha
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart. – Thich Nhat Hanh
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. – Alexandre Dumas
Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Herman Cain
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
Some pursue happiness – others create it.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. – Epictetus
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. – Agnes Repplier
To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness. – Mary Stuart
