Happiness Quotes

“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.” Albert Camus

 

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

 

“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.” Albert Schweitzer

 

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” Albert Schweitzer

 

“The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.” Bertrand Russell

 

“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” Carl Jung

 

“The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.” Claude Monet

 

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.” Denis Waitley

 

“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time.” Edith Wharton

 

“Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.” Edward de Bono

 

“The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox

 

“You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.” Eric Hoffer

 

“The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also.” Felix Adler

 

“Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.” Fran Leibowitz

 

“The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.” Francoise de Motteville

 

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

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

 

“Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. 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

“Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” Helen Keller

 

“That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.” Henry David Thoreau

 

“The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?” Henry David Thoreau

 

“All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.” Horace Friess

 

“Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.” Hubert H. Humphrey

 

“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.” James M. Barrie

 

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” James Oppenheim

 

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

 

“I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.” John D. Rockefeller

 

“It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty an’ wealth have both failed.” Kin Hubbard

 

“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.” Leo Buscaglia

 

“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.” Ludwig Wittgenstein

 

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” M. Scott Peck

 

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

“It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.” Margaret Bonnano

 

“Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.” Mark Twain

 

“Happiness is a Swedish sunset — it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.” Mark Twain

 

“The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.” Mark Twain

 

“The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.” Martha Washington

 

“Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

“Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Norman MacEwan

 

“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.” Sophocles

 

“Independence is happiness.” Susan B. Anthony

 

“Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in being where you belong, and second, and best, in comfortably going through everyday life, that is, having had a good night’s sleep and not being hurt by new shoes.” Theodor Fontane

 

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” Thich Nhat Hanh

 

“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.” Pearl S. Buck

 

“Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” Robert Heinlein

 

“There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.” Robert Louis Stevenson