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