60 Quotes About Happiness

* Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~   Mark Twain

* Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you. ~ Mary Lou Retton

* I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. ~ Dalai Lama 

* Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be. ~ Joseph Campbell

* Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. ~ Marquis de Condorcet

* On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do. ~ Eckhart Tolle

* The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life. ~ Brian Tracy

* Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~ Marcel Proust

* We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing. ~ George Bernard Shaw

* Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy. ~Leo Buscaglia

* A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. ~ William Arthur Ward

* Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness. ~ Buddha 

* The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. ~ Andre Maurois  

* The grass is always greener where you water it.

* When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. ~ Winston Churchill 

* I’d far rather be happy than right any day. ~ Douglas Adams 

* Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it. ~ Andy Rooney 

* The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. ~ James Oppenheim

* Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

~ Benjamin Disraeli 

* The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. ~ Martha Washington 

* Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. ~ Albert Schweitzer 

* Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. ~ Heraclitus 

* Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. ~ Herman Hesse

* No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. ~ Aesop

* Happiness is a state of activity. ~ Aristotle

* Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. ~ George Burns

* 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 pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight. ~ Epictetus

* It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. ~ L.M. Montgomery

* Happiness is acceptance.

* The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

~ James M. Barrie

* We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness. ~ Dalai Lama

* Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy. ~ Dr. Robert Anthony

* The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others. ~ Aesop

* For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. ~ Seneca 

* A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
~ Albert Einstein 

* Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
~ Bertrand Russell

* Nobody can be unhappy with a balloon ~ Winnie the Pooh

* Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. ~ Herman Cain

* What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. ~ Confucius

* 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 that has been opened for us. ~ Helen Keller

* Happiness depends upon ourselves. ~ Aristotle

* It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. ~ Seneca

* The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

~ Marcel Pagnol

*   Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

* Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy. ~ Eskimo Proverb

* To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness. ~ Mary Stuart 

* There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality. ~ Seneca 

* Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ Robert A. Heinlein 

* Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results. ~ Dennis Waitley 

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

~ Mahatma Gandhi 

* The only joy in the world is to begin. ~ Cesare Pavese 

* Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go ~ Oscar Wilde

* Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. ~ Marthe Troly-Curtin