Happiness Quotes

"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."

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."

"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."

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

"When ambition ends, happiness begins."

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

"Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable."

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

"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."

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

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"

"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward."

"Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature."

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

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

"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."

"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."

"Happiness lies first of all in health."

"An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves."

"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. -Robert Baden"

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."

"Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it."

"I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

"Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not."

"I honestly believe true happiness lies in lowered expectations. In opening the door to let the air in."

"All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin."

"If you want to be happy, be."

"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice."

"It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back."

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

"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."