Happiness Quotes

It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.

Benjamin Whichcote

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

A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of a friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and indeed, all the sweets of life.

Joseph Addison 1672

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

Alice Meynell

Happiness is not having what you want, it's wanting what you have.

Anon

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

It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

Helen Keller

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

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go

Oscar Wilde

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

Some pursue happiness - others create it.

Unknown

The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.

Thucydides

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

Happiness is a byproduct of an effort to make someone else happy

Gretta Brooker Palmer

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action

Madame de Stael

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

Ernie Banks

Happiness is not so much in having or sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Norman MacEwan

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happinessÖ

Dalai Lama

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are

Henry Van Dyke

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

Aristotle

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