Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery.
Category
Happiness Quotes
Quotes about happiness - 136 quotes
In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
Happiness is not a matter of good fortune or worldly possessions. It's a mental attitude. It comes from appreciating what we have, instead of being miserable about what we don't have. It's so simple, yet so hard for the human mind to comprehend.
Happiness lies in our own backyard, but It's probably well hidden by crabgrass.
to be blessed , happy, healthy and prosperous.
We must dare to be happy, and dare to confess it, regarding ourselves always as the depositories, not as the authors of our own joy.
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves.
All I ask for is an opportunity to prove that money doesn't buy happiness.
All the happiness you ever find lies in you.
An endurance test for some people is the pursuit of happiness.
For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want the most for what you want now.
Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment.
Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.
Happiness is acceptance.
Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things , It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.
Happiness is like jam. You can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself.
Happiness is made to be shared.
Happiness is not always measured in smiles.
Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.
Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him yours.
Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.
Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.
Much happiness is overlooked because it doesn't cost anything.
No one can secure happiness without earning it.
Security is a thumb and a blanket. Happiness is a warm puppy.
Some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Some pursue happiness, others create it.
Sometimes we miss happiness by looking too far for things nearby.
Stop searching. Happiness is right next to you.
You have to find happiness in yourself before you can find it with someone.
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Happiness depends upon ourselves .
Happiness is a state of activity.
. . . happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it. . . .
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
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.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
You can make yourself happy or miserable, it's the same amount of effort.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
What is the worth of anything , But for the happiness 'twill bring?
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion ...
Anybody who is happy all the time needs a psychiatrist.
I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.
Happiness is a stock that doubles in a year.
If solid happiness we prize , Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to bestow ; From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home.
Happiness depends, as Nature shows , Less on exterior things than most suppose.
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.
Happiness is not given but exchanged.
The envious are not happy unless they are making other people envious.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The gift of happiness belongs to those who unwrap it.
Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Account no man happy till he dies.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us some one else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
The highest happiness of man . . . is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.
Happiness, in this world, if it comes at all, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and it is never attained.
Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, my alight upon you.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel towards what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop.
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment, it is a result.
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out, you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self- gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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 as been opened for us.
Definition of happiness: The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
Happiness and misery depend as much on temperament as on fortune.
One is never so happy or so unhappy as one thinks.
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.
Happiness isn't something you experience, it's something you remember.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
Experience praises the most happy is the one who made the most people happy.
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.
Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
If you find some happiness inside yourself, you'll start findin ' it in lot of other places too.
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
It is necessary to the happiness of a man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.
The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character].
We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.
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.
Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
Happy the man who knows the causes of things.
He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Happiness? That's nothing more than good health and a poor memory.
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders...Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest.
When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to Bhagavad-Gita and find a verse to comfort me; and I immediately begin to smile in the midst of overwhelming sorrow. Those who meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day.
He has bequeathed his nation a body of imperishable verse from which Americans will forever gain joy and understanding.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.