Quotessence
Home / Topics / Happiness Quotes

Happiness Quotes

Browse 13253 quotes about Happiness.

Related topics

Happiness Quotes

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

“Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.”

“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.”

“It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.”

“It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.”

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”

“It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.”

“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.”

“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”

“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

“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 will have sought and found how to serve.”

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”

“Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.”

“Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.”

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

“After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”

“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.”

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

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”

“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.”

“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”

“It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”

“Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.”