A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like.
— Unknown
If you want to be happy, be.
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.
Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness.
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
The greater part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Happiness comes in waves. It’ll find you again.
— Unknown
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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.
Happiness is a warm puppy.
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
Happiness is not the absence of suffering, but the presence of God.
Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
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.
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
— Ayn Rand
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Happiness is only real when shared.
Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
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.
A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Happiness is an inside job.
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
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.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
The only joy in the world is to begin.
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy.
The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are.
The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Happiness is a form of courage.
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.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.
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.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
— Buddha
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.
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.
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.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
Happiness is the best makeup.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
— Buddha
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.