Happiness Quotes

Here are some of my favourite happiness quotes:

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. ~Norm Papernick



"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. ~A.A. Milne

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard

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, Afterthoughts, 1931

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

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~Abraham Lincoln

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? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory. ~Albert Schweitzer

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. ~Janet Lane

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. ~Author Unknown

The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1. ~Author Unknown

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ~Henry Ward Beecher

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. ~Salvador Dali

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. ~Walter Savage Landor

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ~Eric Hoffer

Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking. ~H.W. Byles

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. ~William Shakespeare

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. ~John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873

Jumping for joy is good exercise. ~Author Unknown

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. ~Author Unknown

One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. ~Seneca

One filled with joy preaches without preaching. ~Mother Teresa

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. ~Taisen Deshimaru

The only time I was truly happy was as a child, before I knew what happiness was - or wasn't. ~D.H. Mondfleur

Happiness is a function of accepting what is. ~Werner Erhard

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

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ~Guilaume Apollinaire

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. ~Epictetus

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. ~George Bernard Shaw

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ~Albert Camus

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ~Charles Kingsley

Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. ~C.P. Snow




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