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Quotes about Happiness
Happiness is a state of well-being characterized by good mental health and reported positive affect (such as smiling, laughter, contentment or happiness).[1] It is the condition that exists when one is so absorbed in pleasant thoughts and activities that pleasurable emotions arise. According to positive psychologists, happy people have a sense of purpose and feel their lives are meaningful.[2] It can be measured subjectively with surveys, self-reports or objective methods based on neuroimaging.
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"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."
Omar Khayyam"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."
Charles Spurgeon"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."
George Sand"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"Happiness is a direction, not a place."
Sydney J. Harris"When ambition ends, happiness begins."
Thomas Merton"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
Guillaume Apollinaire"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca"Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable."
Clare Boothe Luce"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."
John Barrymore"Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!"
Lawrence G. Lovasik"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."
Martha Washington"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde"You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness."
Julia Roberts"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
Dalai Lama"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"
Leslie Caron"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
Mahatma Gandhi"Happiness is a virtue, not its reward."
Baruch Spinoza"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."
Dennis Prager"Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it."
David Lee Roth"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
Dalai Lama"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens."
Douglas William Jerrold"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
Gustave Flaubert"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."
Alice Walker"Happiness can exist only in acceptance."
George Orwell"Happiness lies first of all in health."
George William Curtis"An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves."
Lydia M. Child"Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow."
Frank McCourt"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. -Robert Baden"
Powell"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
Agnes Repplier"The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open."
Chuck Palahniuk"Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it."
Mary Baker Eddy"I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."
J. D. Salinger"There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way."
Thich Nhat Hanh"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."
Buddha"Beauty is the promise of happiness."
Edmund Burke"Independence is happiness."
Susan B. Anthony"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."
Valerie Bertinelli"I honestly believe true happiness lies in lowered expectations. In opening the door to let the air in."
Sara Pascoe"My definition of beauty is happiness. I believe that when you are happy, it shines through and makes you a more attractive and beautiful person!"
Bianca Balti"All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin."
Lord Byron"If you want to be happy, be."
Leo Tolstoy"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."
Henry Ward Beecher"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice."
Ben Jonson"It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back."
Adrian Grenier"Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates."
Sarah McLachlan"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
Benjamin Disraeli"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
Epictetus"I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields."
Queen Latifah"Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort."
Helen Gurley Brown"You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous."
Tony Hawk"Low expectations is the key to happiness in life."
Christopher Miller"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
Franklin D. Roosevelt"It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure."
Jordan Peterson"Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower."
John Harrigan"Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress."
Alana Stewart"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."
Marcus Tullius Cicero"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."
Zhuangzi"Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy."
Deepak Chopra"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."
Carl Sandburg"A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world."
Joseph Addison"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
Benjamin Franklin"There is only one passion, the passion for happiness."
Denis Diderot"Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr."Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
Mother Teresa"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it."
Richard Bach"Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude."
Dale Carnegie"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."
Robert Green Ingersoll"Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity."
Jose Marti"Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness."
Anatole France"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it."
William Feather"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
Aristotle"The secret of happiness is something to do."
John Burroughs"It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness."
Sheryl Sandberg"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling."
Margaret Lee Runbeck"Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that."
Nick Cave"When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important."
Daniel Kahneman"There is nothing that you can't overcome. So it's never too late for happiness."
Pepa"Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy."
Wayne Gretzky"When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but we still do it. And we do it for a very good reason: They bring so much joy and optimism and happiness. They attack every moment of every day with that attitude."
W. Bruce Cameron"Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails."
Euripides"Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness."
Harold Kushner"I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness."
Nana Mouskouri"It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness."
Herbie Hancock"True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment."
Dada Vaswani"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Thomas Jefferson"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."
C. S. Lewis"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy."
Robert A. Heinlein"If men have easy access to divorce, many will choose it thoughtlessly. They may not gain true happiness with their new trophy wives, but they certainly will not slide into the material indigence and emotional misery that awaits most divorced women."
Tom Cotton"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"
Albert Camus"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember."
Oscar Levant"Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted."
Deepak Chopra"Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions."
Saul Bellow"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
Albert Schweitzer"Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse."
Adam Smith"Desire is individual. Happiness is common."
Julian Casablancas"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love."
Baruch Spinoza"Growth itself contains the germ of happiness."
Pearl S. Buck"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life."
Leo Buscaglia"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness."
William E. Gladstone"A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away."
Bil Keane"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
Groucho Marx"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."
Eleanor Roosevelt"Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life."
Brad Pitt"The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression."
Gary Larson"Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!"
Freddie Mercury"Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind."
Daphne du Maurier"We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness."
Pierre Corneille"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."
Eric Hoffer"To buy happiness is to sell soul."
Douglas Horton"The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable."
Joseph Roux"There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy."
Mark Twain"Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them."
Albert Camus"It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. -Antoine de Saint"
Exupery"Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another."
Ambrose Bierce"You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness."
Tracy Kidder"Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration."
Taylor Swift"Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport."
Andrea Hirata"Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy."
Andrew Weil"Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her."
Ambrose Bierce"If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular."
Connie Nielsen"I don't think I'm alone in this: I'm obsessed with trying to not only be happy but maintain happiness, but my definition of happiness is skewed more towards ecstasy rather than contentment."
Mitski"My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit."
Charles Saatchi"'Sunrise Sunset' is about trying to get to a place where life is simple and not letting the stress and happenings in the world get in the way of your happiness."
Benny Cassette"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
Robert Frost"Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning."
Andrei Platonov"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. -Antoine de Saint"
Exupery"Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds."
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps"Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude."
Joseph Wood Krutch"Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others."
Henry Drummond"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."
Alexandre Dumas"For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh"Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable."
Leo Rosten"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
C. S. Lewis"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
Ingrid Bergman"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony."
Thomas Merton"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
Bertrand Russell"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us."
Ashley Montagu"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."
Helen Keller"There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness."
Liberty Hyde Bailey"It's not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you're grateful, you can find happiness in everything."
Pharrell Williams"I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on."
Carrie Underwood"At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can't control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness."
Holly Holm"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing."
William Butler Yeats"The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number."
William Dean Howells"You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness."
Percy Ross"Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be."
John Dryden"Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind."
John Stuart Mill"Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided."
Alphonse Karr"Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war."
William S. Burroughs"The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion."
Richard Gere"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."
Dante Alighieri"Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it's the ability to give."
Adam Neumann"Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool."
John Mason Good"We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration."
Alanis Morissette"Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness."
Bryant H. McGill"The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness."
Martin Seligman"Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others."
Jay Parini"Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people."
Scott Weiss"There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment."
Swami Sivananda"Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability."
Kehlani"It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit."
Denis Waitley"Happiness does not consist in self-love."
Joseph Butler"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values."
Ayn Rand"I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river."
Zhuangzi"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."
Arthur Schopenhauer"Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way."
Sophocles"To describe happiness is to diminish it."
Stendhal"If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved."
Maurice Chevalier"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"
Albert Einstein"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."
Ayn Rand"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."
Rita Mae Brown"Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine."
Tryon Edwards"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy."
Heraclitus"There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness."
John Buchan"I think happiness is love."
Vladimir Putin"Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness."
Conor Oberst"Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends."
Divyanka Tripathi"Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life."
Chandra Wilson"Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you."
Hafez"It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come."
Dalai Lama"Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination."
Immanuel Kant"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it."
Kevyn Aucoin"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"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."
Maria Mitchell"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
Nathaniel Hawthorne"Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!"
Dita Von Teese"In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love."
Marla Gibbs"The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it."
Daniel Gilbert"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr."Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you."
Prem Rawat"It gets better: there's a light at the end of the tunnel. It may take one day, it may take ten years. But one day, you will find happiness if you manifest it. Put that energy out, and it'll come back."
Lil Xan"If I can bring happiness to people all around the world, then I will try my best to do so."
Tom Holland"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."
Christian Nestell Bovee"I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness."
Kanye West"No amount of money can replace the kind of happiness and satisfaction I derive out of writing."
Sreenivasan"To me, flowers are happiness."
Stefano Gabbana"I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you're not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life, and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you."
John Prine"Good clothing is a passport to happiness."
Yves Saint Laurent"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."
Maxim Gorky"There is a great deal of reward when you do good work and people see how successful that work is and the happiness it brings to them."
Naveen Patnaik"Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi"Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all."
Ovid"That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness."
Lupe Fiasco"Happiness is having a scratch for every itch."
Ogden Nash"To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness."
Hermann Hesse"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself."
Plutarch"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."
Alfred Lord Tennyson"To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman"A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else."
Bette Davis"The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind."
William Godwin"My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle."
Nicki Minaj"Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us."
Guy Finley"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."
Bertrand Russell"Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."
Immanuel Kant"I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them."
Frederic Chopin"The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within."
David Lynch"A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories."
Honore de Balzac"To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless."
Stefan Sagmeister"Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances."
J. Donald Walters"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life."
William Morris"The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage."
Thucydides"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul."
Democritus"I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome."
Helen McCrory"I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation."
William Clay Ford, Jr."I wish all happiness, good health and togetherness to those close to me."
Shriya Saran"I don't believe in God, in prayer, in going to temples begging God to give me and my family happiness. I am not asking everyone to be an atheist, but good thoughts are not spent in a temple."
Suhasini Maniratnam"Real and true happiness is having a relationship with God and not what makes us happy."
Mike Fisher"Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness."
Dionne Warwick"I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful."
Christina Milian"Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness."
Louise Hart"Perfect happiness would be knowing that all my family and friends were happy and safe. Then I'd go to a tropical island with my husband where it was gorgeous and fun all day long and interesting and fun all evening. Good food and dancing would be nice, too, and weekly visits from those safe and happy family and friends. Plus world peace."
Suzanne Weyn"For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom."
Sushant Singh Rajput"My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret."
Tina Turner"I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a switch that you flick in your brain. It doesn't have anything to do with getting a new house, a new car, a new girlfriend, or a new pair of shoes. Our culture is very much about that; we are never happy with what we have today."
Tom Ford"Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God's great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!"
Russell M. Nelson"A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live."
Bertrand Russell"Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels."
Bertolt Brecht"Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are."
Henry Van Dyke"There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow."
Alfred de Musset"True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
Helen Keller"Happiness is an inside job."
William Arthur Ward"To forget oneself is to be happy."
Robert Louis Stevenson"There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so."
Jose Marti"Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy."
Swami Sivananda"Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all."
Russell M. Nelson"Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow."
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam"When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life."
Suze Orman"Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it."
Rachel Field"Having been in the restaurant business, our job in the restaurant business is to be responsible for our customers' happiness. It's the nature of the hospitality business. You need to take care of people. You take care of customers above all others. Customers are your lifeblood."
Andrew Zimmern"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
Freya Stark"Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy."
Dada Vaswani"Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on."
Carrie Underwood"It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later."
George Foreman"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best."
Theodore Isaac Rubin"A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose."
Tom Wilson"All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast."
John Gunther"We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness."
Tom Waits"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."
Aeschylus"I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them."
John Stuart Mill"Happiness is only real when shared."
Christopher McCandless"Like anything worth doing in life, happiness takes time and patience and consistency."
Mark Manson"God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there."
Billy Graham"Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money."
Arthur Schopenhauer"The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star. -Jean Anthelme Brillat"
Savarin"Happiness is the longing for repetition."
Milan Kundera"Happiness is making your dreams come true."
Jourdan Dunn"Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled."
Benjamin Spock"You can be happy where you are."
Joel Osteen"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
Kin Hubbard"In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag."
W. H. Auden"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens."
Andy Rooney"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."
Jane Austen"Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing."
Napoleon Hill"Football is my happiness. -Son Heung"
min"Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness."
Herbert Hoover"The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it."
Jacques Yves Cousteau"Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery."
H. Jackson Brown, Jr."Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us."
Henri Matisse"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self."
Iris Murdoch"Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness."
George Bernard Shaw"No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace."
Richard Simmons"The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be controlled."
Eliza Doolittle"Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping."
Gertrude Stein"A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others."
Robert Green Ingersoll"Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith."
Kareena Kapoor Khan"Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life."
Martha Beck"Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps."
Sharon Draper"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."
Thomas Jefferson"Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I've learned, that's the path to happiness."
Lesley Ann Warren"Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got."
Garth Brooks"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion. -Jean"
Jacques Rousseau"My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations."
Michael J. Fox"Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery."
Spike Milligan"The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony."
V. S. Pritchett"I was always worried about things but I focused on finding happiness. -Kim Tae"
hyung"There's no reason why children in inner cities or rural areas do not receive the same quality education or opportunities as those in suburbs or wealthy neighborhoods. If we truly believe in giving all citizens a chance to pursue happiness and pursue their goals, then we cannot continue to marginalize entire groups of people."
Al Sharpton"If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world."
David Brainerd"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."
Desiderius Erasmus"Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself."
Sam Levenson"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
Ernest Hemingway"Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life."
Linus Pauling"Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness."
George Sand"We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier."
Walter Savage Landor"Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."
Thomas Jefferson"Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy."
Henri Frederic Amiel"Never mind your happiness; do your duty."
Peter Drucker"Everyone wants to be happy - people find happiness in different ways. While you want to pursue your career 100 percent, I think it is very hard to give 100 percent in something else. It's important to find this balance, and priorities change throughout life."
Ana Ivanovic"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."
George Bernard Shaw"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him."
Buddha"Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read."
Michael A. Stackpole"Breathing in South Korea, even though the life here is not easy, makes me so happy. I feel that sitting in a coffee shop, having a cup of tea, and looking out of the window at the blue sky - this is happiness. Truly happiness. -Lee Hyeon"
seo"The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success."
Adam Grant"I just want to say to women, 'Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.'"
Cherie Lunghi"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."
Milan Kundera"Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you."
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi"Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success."
Shawn Achor"A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being."
James E. Faust"Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice."
Beyonce Knowles"I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude."
Brene Brown"The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness."
Ruth Reichl"My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace."
Denzel Washington"The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind."
Annie Besant"I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose."
Arizona Muse"Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness."
Emil Cioran"An actor's body should be full of emotions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, pain or joy, enraged or elated."
Sonny Chiba"Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness."
Caitlyn Jenner"An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences."
Shreya Ghoshal"Happiness is the natural flower of duty."
Phillips Brooks"No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change."
Barbara De Angelis"The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness."
Virginia Woolf"I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me."
Naveen Jain"Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle."
F. Scott Fitzgerald"The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so."
William Inge"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."
Hosea Ballou"Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness."
Andre Gide"The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."
Ernest Dimnet"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it."
Nathaniel Hawthorne"Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination."
Marquis de Sade"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness."
F. H. Bradley"Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life."
Arnold Bennett"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness."
George Orwell"The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself... One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence, honor, and happiness of the future generations."
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years."
Bertrand Russell"Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than any wild beast; his right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing but a license to maintain the struggle for existence, if he can find within himself the powers with which to do it."
William Graham Sumner"Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that."
Elvis Costello"I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success."
Michael Landon"'Happiness' is a pointless goal."
Jordan Peterson"I guess I would say true happiness is to love and be loved. Of course, having enough money for food, shelter, health care and things like that all help, but that is more about security."
Jason Becker"The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison."
Nathaniel Hawthorne"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
Victor Hugo"Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years."
Ausonius"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."
Mary Wollstonecraft"The most simple things can bring the most happiness."
Izabella Scorupco"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
Dale Carnegie"In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices."
James E. Faust"A plant is the most cliche thing, but a little bit of green has a great effect on happiness. Being at a cubicle all day is not pleasing, but a little life on your desk can give you a little life, too."
Bobby Berk"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."
Jim Rohn"People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made."
Joan Rivers"Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness."
Muhammad Yunus"Human mind has way too many shades. It would be so boring if this world was all sugar and gloss, just happy, colourful lives. People singing songs is not always the reality. Just like happiness and love, people also feel wrath, jealousy and vengeance!"
Shweta Basu Prasad"True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents."
John W. Gardner"True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."
Joseph Addison"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves."
Victor Hugo"Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man."
Oswald Chambers"There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself."
Henry David Thoreau"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness."
Richard Bach"Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are."
Princess Diana"Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change."
Friedrich Schiller"When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness."
Malcolm Forbes"Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity."
Rollo May"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness."
Bertrand Russell"Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured."
Ambrose Bierce"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us."
Blaise Pascal"When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing."
Joseph Roux"Love is trembling happiness."
Khalil Gibran"When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness."
Nicole Kidman"A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience."
Sydney Smith"Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received."
Alexander Payne"The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom."
Plato"I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland."
Islom Karimov"I don't belong to anyone else but myself. I have to make my own decisions. Happiness is defined by me."
Keke Palmer"Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society."
Henry St. John"Science and technology are a propellant for building a thriving country, and the happiness of the people and the future of the country hinge on their development. -Kim Jong"
un"Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good."
Walter Savage Landor"Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything."
Norman Lear"Being of service to others is what brings true happiness."
Marie Osmond"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem."
Bill Vaughan"Wellness is associated with happiness. When you're happy, you're feeling good in your mind and body. That ties into being healthy, eating well, and exercising regularly. It also ties into being excited about things - like getting up in the morning and having a healthy breakfast."
Stella Maxwell"Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice."
Michael Novak"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
Joseph Addison"It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business."
Dolley Madison"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."
Gilbert K. Chesterton"The groundwork of all happiness is health."
Leigh Hunt"All the riches in the world do not come close to the happiness of having children and being a mother."
Jocelyn Wildenstein"Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness."
Shah Rukh Khan"America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered."
Louis D. Brandeis"As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness."
Amber Riley"All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife."
Daniel Boone"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."
Maria Montessori"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go."
Martha Washington"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants."
Benjamin Franklin"Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison."
Georges Bataille"The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick."
P. T. Barnum"It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness."
Thomas Jefferson"The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."
Benjamin Franklin"The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past."
Andre Maurois"Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else."
Alphonse Karr"People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness."
Lucinda Williams"If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem."
Richard Bach"You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace."
Ernie Banks"I invite you to get out of the box, be yourself. If you have blue hair, pink, yellow; if you have a broken tooth; if you have other sexual preferences... be yourself. Fight for your happiness always."
J Balvin"Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man. -Robert Baden"
Powell"Everyone needs resilience. It's a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness."
Eric Greitens"There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible."
Samuel Johnson"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr."Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you."
Joel Osteen"I get way too much happiness from good food."
Elizabeth Olsen"My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art."
Clara Schumann"I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary."
Iggy Azalea"Now you know my credo: Free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. And let me add to that from our Founding Fathers: Our Creator endowed us with the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In other words, freedom."
Lawrence Kudlow"Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared."
Jane Porter"The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it."
Daniel Dennett"Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life."
Maria Montessori"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all."
Ogden Nash"The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others."
Paramahansa Yogananda"Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle."
George Burns"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."
Thomas Jefferson"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it."
Bernard Meltzer"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness."
Don Marquis"Happiness seems made to be shared."
Pierre Corneille"It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy."
Immanuel Kant"Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men."
Joseph Franklin Rutherford"Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve."
Robert Staughton Lynd"If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness."
Leon Kass"So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some."
Booth Tarkington"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?"
Adam Smith"I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness."
Harlan Coben"Having a perfect set of abs will not bring you happiness, but eating healthy food and exercising will."
Joe Wicks"I've realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it's my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always."
Kylie Jenner"I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable."
Victoria Woodhull"I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't."
Tom Ford"I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness."
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it."
Claire Forlani"Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children."
Guy Laliberte"For me, fitness is not just about hitting the gym; it is also about an inner happiness and an overall well-being."
Rakul Preet Singh"Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time."
Keke Palmer"Just staying healthy, that is true wealth and true happiness."
Jon Jones"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"The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment."
Marie Kondo"Nothing makes you feel better than when you get into a hotel bed, and the sheets feel so good. Why shouldn't you wake up like that every day? Spend money on your mattress and bedding because these things make a difference on your sleep and, ultimately, your happiness."
Bobby Berk"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
George Burns"Growing up, my dad was 'get a real job, don't go pursuing your dreams, that's how you become homeless.' So, do I pick my family or do I pick my own happiness, and how much does my own happiness depend on my family?"
Jimmy O. Yang"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken."
Leo Tolstoy"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."
Helen Keller"It's good to be happy and tell us how cool your life is and how awesome you are on social media. That's great because it inspires other people to be happy, too. But a lot of times, people are trying to be happy in the wrong ways - with money or with different things that are not true happiness."
Jaden Smith"All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God."
Said Nursi"Happiness is not a luxury. It is a necessity. When we are happy, we are in the best possible place to be good to ourselves and those we love."
Suze Orman"Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever."
Peabo Bryson"The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions."
Kelsang Gyatso"Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values."
Thomas S. Monson"The power of cosmetics and the effect they can have on one's happiness and confidence is very real."
Huda Kattan"More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness."
Dalai Lama"Joys divided are increased."
Josiah Gilbert Holland"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."
Fyodor Dostoevsky"It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury."
Thomas Moore"We possess only the happiness we are able to understand."
Maurice Maeterlinck"Happiness is no laughing matter."
Richard Whately"How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success."
William Ellery Channing"Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose."
Jon Krakauer"Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?"
Jonathan Safran Foer"Perfect happiness is knowing that everyone I love is healthy, safe, and content."
Joy Fielding"Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness."
David Sarnoff"I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'"
Sandra Bullock"Keep da money, cars, fame, and jewelry, and jus give me all the happiness - I'll be good forever."
21 Savage"Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful."
Martin Yan"He who avoids complaint invites happiness."
Abu Bakr"There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy."
Joyce Grenfell"Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object."
Hermann Hesse"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness."
Euripides"We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds, unpredictable, fleeting, and without responsibility to our desires. Through honest self-work, reflection, and meditation, we begin to string more of these moments together, creating a web-like design of happiness that drapes around our lives."
Tara Stiles"The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind."
Bobby Davro"All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them."
Said Nursi"The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life."
Lucan"You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness."
Brad Garrett"You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you're seeing truly."
Andrew Solomon"If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that."
Gisele Bundchen"We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy."
Mary Oliver"Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."
Sydney Smith"It sounds strange to say, but someone's bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other."
Michy Batshuayi"Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places."
Milton Berle"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
Elsa Schiaparelli"Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness."
Baltasar Gracian"Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!"
Frederick William Faber"There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness."
Aldous Huxley"Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life."
Gilbert K. Chesterton"If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter."
Ezra Taft Benson"The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion."
Karl Marx"Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound."
David Lynch"Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
William Cowper"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern."
Samuel Johnson"I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup."
Drew Barrymore"The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible."
Bertrand Russell"The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man."
William Beveridge"Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy."
Frances Burney"Sugar brings happiness. Eating it once or twice a week in a dessert, that's what life is about. There is nothing wrong with it."
Adriano Zumbo"Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result."
Robert Green Ingersoll"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."
Marcel Proust"When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away."
Anna Pavlova"The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift."
Ellen DeGeneres"Be happy in what you do. Be respectful of yourself. Do good works for others, and the goodness will come back to you and make you a better person. I think that's what happiness is all about."
Gerard Malanga"I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness amid the heartbreak."
Adrienne C. Moore"Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then."
Anthony Hopkins"The right to happiness is fundamental."
Anna Pavlova"I'm not a showoff. My happiness comes from very basic and simple things."
Dennis Lloyd"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
John Mason Brown"Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static."
Patrick Kavanagh"The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life."
Eleonora Duse"Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn't-fair results, it turns out that the happy outperform the less happy. Happy people work more hours each week - and they work more in their free time, too."
Gretchen Rubin