302 quotes
“The door to happiness opens outward and compassion is the hand that pushes it open”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.”
— Joseph Roux
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”
— Immanuel Kant
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“Life is too short and too precious to be anything but happy”
— Sylvia Boorstein
“There is no path to happiness; happiness is the path.”
— Buddha
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy”
— Dalai Lama
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“It is not a lack of love but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages”
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
“If you want to be happy be.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“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
“True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future.”
— Seneca
“If you want others to be happy practice compassion. If you want to be happy practice compassion.”
“A creative life is an amplified life a bigger life a happier life”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
“Happiness depends upon ourselves more than upon external things.”
— Aristotle
“If you want to be happy, be.”
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
— George Sand
“I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.”
— Voltaire
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
— Unknown
“Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.”
— Christian Nestell Bovee
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
— Epictetus
“Whatever hour God has blessed you with, take it with grateful hand, nor postpone your joys from year to year.”
— Horace
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself”
“The seed of suffering in you may be strong but do not wait until you have no more suffering to be happy”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy and healing is the path to that happiness”
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
— Albus Dumbledore
— Tolstoy
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
— Marcel Proust
“Happiness cannot be pursued it must ensue.”
— Viktor Frankl
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy and happiness is not something ready made it comes from your own actions”
“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold; happiness dwells in the soul.”
— Democritus
“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
“Ever since happiness heard your name it has been running through the streets trying to find you”
— Hafiz
“Be as simple as you can be and you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
— Robert A. Heinlein
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
— Rumi
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“It isnt what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
— Dale Carnegie
“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them”
— John Stuart Mill
“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“Happiness is your nature it is not wrong to desire it what is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside”
— Ramana Maharshi
“A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.”
— Cicero
“The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.”
— Jeremy Bentham
“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“The secret to happiness is freedom. And the secret to freedom is courage.”
— Thucydides
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
“True happiness arises from the enjoyment of one's self, and from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”
— Joseph Addison
“No medicine cures what happiness cannot”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”
— George Orwell
“True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. Nor is it in the pursuit of pleasure, but in the discovery of purpose.”
— Ben Jonson
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
“Unquiet meals make ill digestions; therefore the happiness of a man's life is to be measured not by the great feasts, but by the frequency of his simple, pleasant repasts.”
— William Shakespeare
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“If you want to be happy be”
“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
— Margaret Lee Runbeck
“To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness and kindness opens that door”
— John Dewey
“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”
— Thomas à Kempis
“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
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved through acts of compassion”
— Victor Hugo
“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness”
— Chuang Tzu
“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself. Nobody can make you happy but yourself.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Success is not the key to happiness but happiness is the key to success and faith is the key to happiness”
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”
— James Oppenheim
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts toward peace.”
“The secret of happiness is not found in seeking more but in developing the capacity to enjoy less”
— Socrates
“The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage.”
“Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; happiness dwells in the soul.”
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves or rather loved in spite of ourselves”
“We think that the more we have the happier we will be but we learn that the opposite is often true”
— Fumio Sasaki
“One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
— Albert Camus
“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”
— King Solomon
“Remember happiness doesnt depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.”
— Zhuangzi
“If you want others to be happy practice compassion and if you want to be happy practice compassion”
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
“One joy scatters a hundred griefs.”
— Chinese Proverb
“Happiness cannot be traveled to owned earned worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love grace and gratitude.”
“Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.”
“We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness but happiness is found in simplicity not in escape”
— Leo Babauta
“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”
“Happiness is our natural state it is the way we were before we began to interfere with it”
— Anthony de Mello
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
“Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.”
— Book of Proverbs
“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness”
“Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Success is not the key to happiness happiness is the key to success”
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order”
— Thomas Merton
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“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.”
“Happiness is always essentially a result of being thankful.”
— Theodor Adorno
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
— Anne Frank
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom”
“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.”
“The simple truth is that happy people generally dont get sick”
— Bernie Siegel
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”
— Robert Morley
“Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.”
— Samuel Johnson
“There is no path to happiness happiness is the path”
“No one is happy who does not think himself so.”
— Publilius Syrus
“Happiness is not something ready made it comes from your own actions”
“Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.”
— E.M. Forster
“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.”
“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.”
— Epicurus
“There is no happiness where there is no wisdom.”
— Sophocles
“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy family life. It is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
“Sometimes you have to let everything go, purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything, let it go. Release it.”
— Tina Turner
“Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!”
— Ludwig van Beethoven
“Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole of family life by far the most important is the acquisition of friends who become like family.”
“True family happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future.”
“May all sentient beings enjoy happiness and the root of happiness through boundless compassion”
— Ani Pema Chodron
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery air mountains trees people. I thought this is what it is to be happy.”
— Sylvia Plath
“The supreme happiness of family life is the conviction that we are loved for ourselves.”
“You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.”
— Jane Roberts
“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.”
— Persian Proverb
“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now.”
— Earl Nightingale
“Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.”
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.”
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy and to help others find happiness”
“Happiness is a skill it requires effort and time”
— Matthieu Ricard
“That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great”
— Willa Cather
“Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.”
“A person who is happy is not because everything is right in his life he is happy because his attitude towards everything in his life is right”
— Sundar Pichai
“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness found in solitary acceptance”
“Happiness is not far away, it is within achievement.”
— Anonymous
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
“There is no happiness in a family where virtue has no place.”
“The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”
— Confucius
“The secret of happiness you see is not found in seeking more but in developing the capacity to enjoy less”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself.”
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
— Helen Keller
“The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
— Allan K. Chalmers
“Spread love everywhere you go and let no one ever come to you without leaving happier through compassion”
— Mother Teresa
“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
— Camus
“Pleasure is spread through the earth in stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.”
— William Wordsworth
“It is not happiness that makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy.”
— Brother David Steindl-Rast
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts and faith elevates those thoughts”
“He who is contented is rich.”
— Lao Tzu
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”
“They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”
“To fill the hour — that is happiness.”
“Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle some things are within our control and some things are not”
“I dont have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness. It is right in front of me if I am paying attention and practicing gratitude.”
— Brene Brown
“Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold happiness dwells in the soul that practices kindness”
“The person who has not learned to be happy and content while completely alone for an hour a day, or a week, has missed life's greatest serenity.”
— Lin Yutang
“He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.”
— Thomas Fuller
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.”
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”
— James M. Barrie
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self.”
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
— Omar Khayyam
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
“The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop.”
— Naval Ravikant
“A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”
“No family can be truly happy if it is not built on a foundation of mutual respect.”
— Mary Wollstonecraft
“Happiness depends upon ourselves and so does our peace of mind.”
“Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery.”
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts”
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy”
“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. Peace is the absence of striving for peace.”
“Happiness is a state of mind.”
“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.”
“The key to happiness is the reduction of desires.”
— Amma
“Family happiness is the highest good and the foundation upon which all human flourishing rests.”
— Aeschylus
“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
“Happiness is a warm sunbeam, which may be obscured by the passing cloud of misfortune, but can never be extinguished.”
— Hannah More
“People always think that happiness in a family is a thing you find. It is a thing you create.”
— Betty Smith
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
“The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“If you want to be happy be kind for kindness is the surest path to joy”
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself in your way of thinking”
“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.”
— Plato
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”
— William Saroyan
“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Of all the means to ensure happiness the most important is the acquisition of friends”
“Happiness is not in objects nor in events nor in experiences it is in us”
— Francis Lucille
“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”
— Joyce Brothers
“The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“No man is a failure who is enjoying life.”
— William Feather
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
— Mark Twain
“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
“The child who concentrates is immensely happy because wonder fills their entire being”
— Maria Montessori
“All happy families are alike but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“Happiness is the secret to all beauty; there is no beauty that is attractive without happiness.”
— Christian Dior
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”
— Stendhal
“Happiness is a warm sunbeam, which may be obscured but never extinguished.”
“He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age.”
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.”
— Gautama Buddha
“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”
“It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will”
“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.”
“True happiness arises from the enjoyment of one's self.”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
— Khalil Gibran
“When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us by faith”
“The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.”
— Goldie Hawn
“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy and faith gives us the courage to pursue that happiness”
“Truly happy memories always live on shining more and more beautifully in the heart even as time passes”
— Banana Yoshimoto
“Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.”
— Jane Austen
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
“Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.”
— Dalai Lama XIV
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it”
“The little things thats where happiness is found in the little acts of kindness”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The secret to happiness is freedom and the secret to freedom is courage”
“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness and wonder fills the emptiness that striving leaves behind”
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
“Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that.”
— Stacey Charter
“Happiness is not something that comes to us. It is something we cultivate through practice.”
“True happiness arises from the good use of all the powers of the soul applied to good objects.”
— François Fénelon
“Happiness is a skill that can be trained and solitude is one of its training grounds”
“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
— Gabriel García de Quevedo
“Happiness is the highest good.”
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