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