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Happiness Quotes

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Helen Keller

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise.

Ashley Montagu

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like.

Unknown

If you want to be happy, be.

Leo Tolstoy

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

John Barrymore

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

Steve Maraboli

Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness.

Christian Dior

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

John Lennon

The greater part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Martha Washington

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Chuck Palahniuk

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.

Benjamin Franklin

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.

William Ralph Inge

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Sydney J. Harris

Happiness comes in waves. It’ll find you again.

Unknown

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Lady Blessington

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

Thucydides

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.

Buddha

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Oscar Wilde

Happiness is a warm puppy.

Charles M. Schulz

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

Mark Twain

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

Happiness is not the absence of suffering, but the presence of God.

Anonymous

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

Alan Cohen

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.

Rabbi Hyman Schachtel

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Seneca

Happiness comes from peace. Peace comes from indifference.

Naval Ravikant

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

Ayn Rand

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is only real when shared.

Christopher McCandless

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Gretta Palmer

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

Andy Rooney

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything.

Unknown

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.

Albert Einstein

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Aristotle

Happiness is an inside job.

William Arthur Ward

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Anne Frank

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

Dalai Lama

Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.

Unknown

Being happy never goes out of style.

Lilly Pulitzer

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.

Albert Schweitzer

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

William Morris

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy.

Marcel Proust

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are.

Goldie Hawn

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Thucydides

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Albert Camus

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Rita Mae Brown

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Mark Twain

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Dr. Seuss

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Aeschylus

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

Steve Maraboli

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Henry David Thoreau

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Aristotle

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Henry Ward Beecher

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

William James

Happiness is a form of courage.

Holbrook Jackson

Happiness is not in things; it's in you.

Unknown

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

Chinese Proverb

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Carl Sandburg

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

George Orwell

Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.

Walt Disney

Happiness is not out there, it's in you.

Unknown

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Buddha

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

Mahatma Gandhi

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Dalai Lama

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

Stephen Chbosky

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca

Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.

Jack Kerouac

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

Buddha

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Douglas Jerrold

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.

W. P. Kinsella

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Happiness is the best makeup.

Drew Barrymore

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Benjamin Franklin

Happiness is a journey, not a destination.

Buddha

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

William Saroyan

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Frank Tyger