Motivational Quotes

Happiness

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

- Jean Houston

Best Quotes about Happiness

1.

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

Jerrold, Douglas William

2.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

Billings, Josh

3.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

4.

Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

Ann Radcliffe

5.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

6.

Happiness is a positive cash flow.

Adler, Fred

7.

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

Byron, Lord

8.

The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved.

Clyde, R.D.

9.

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.

Sarnoff, David

10.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louise Bogan

11.

Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

Dyer, Wayne

13.

If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

14.

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Proverb, Spanish

15.

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

Upanishads, Veda

16.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

17.

Happiness is a sort of action.

Aristotle

18.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Levenson, Samuel

19.

I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Huxley, Aldous

20.

We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.

Landor, Walter Savage

21.

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.

Addison, Joseph

22.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Goodman, Roy

23.

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.

Rubin, Theodore I.

24.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

Yeats, William Butler

25.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Fielding, Henry

26.

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.

Immanuel Hermann Fichte

27.

The happier the moment the shorter.

Pliny The Elder

28.

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

Lucas, E. V.

29.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

Horace

30.

IÆve decided that the key to happiness is low expectations.

Laura Moncur

31.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Franklin, Benjamin

32.

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

Keller, Helen

33.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

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.

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.

Lucian

36.

Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

Socrates

37.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

Anderson, Greg

38.

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

Bennett, William John

39.

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us so live as to deserve happiness.

Fichte, Johann G.

40.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Alda, Alan

41.

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

42.

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.