Happiness Quotes

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

Alice Meynell

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

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

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

I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and I will be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.

Og Mandino

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

Bill Moyers

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

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Unknown

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence

Aristotle

Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as YOU see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.

Unknown

Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.

Unknown

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him

Marguerite Duras

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

Hugh Downs

He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness.

Chinese Proverbs

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing

Napoleon Hill

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation

Unknown

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient

Aristotle

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Amanda Bradley

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually

Stephen R. Covey

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

G. K. Chesterton

The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

Dale E. Turner

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient

Seneca

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Carl Sandburg