Greatest Happiness Quotes
Usually you what we are, what we have, what we got are the things or incidents that will make us feel good or happy. But here are some of the quotes on happiness and how to be happy in undesired situation and how you can find happiness in any face of life.
- “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.” - Buddha
- “The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.”- Ashley Montagu
- “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” - Albert Camus
- “It isn’t 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.” - Dale Carnegie
- “Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.” - Stacey Charter
- “Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.” - Winnie the Pooh
- “It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” - Lucille Ball
- “We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” - Frederick Keonig
- “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” - Epictetus
- “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”- Thich Nhat Hanh
- “There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.” - Seneca
- “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
- “Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” - Dennis Waitley
- “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” - Robert A. Heinlein
- “The only joy in the world is to begin.” - Cesare Pavese
- “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” - Mahatma Gandhi
- “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” - Marthe Troly-Curtin
- “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go” - Oscar Wilde
- “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
- “Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon” - Winnie the Pooh
- “There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.” - Anthony de Mello
- “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” - Confucius
- “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” - Aristotle
- “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” - Dalai Lama
- “It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.” - Seneca
- “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 is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” - George Burns
- “The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.” - Epictetus
- “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
- “If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.” - Joseph Addison
- “The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” - James M. Barrie
- “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
- “Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.” - Dr. Robert Anthony
- “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
- “The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.” - Aesop
- “A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?” - Albert Einstein
- “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
- “Happiness is a myth we seek, If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks. For man is happy only in His aspiration to the heights; When he attains his goal, he cools And longs for other distant flights.” - Kahlil Gibran
- “Happiness is a state of activity.” - Aristotle
- “For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.” - Seneca
- “Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.” - Friedrich Schiller
- “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” - Bertrand Russell
- “The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.” - Arthur Schopenhauer
- “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
- “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
- “I’d far rather be happy than right any day.” - Douglas Adams
- “This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.” - Douglas Adams
- “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” - Confucius
- “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 nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” - Albert Schweitzer
- “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” - Benjamin Disraeli
- “Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.” - Charles Caleb Colton
- “The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” - Martha Washington
- “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” - James Oppenheim
- “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
- “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” - Aesop
- “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” - Andy Rooney
- “Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.” - Rose Lane
- Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.” - Herman Hesse
- “Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.” - Heraclitus
- Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.” - Maxim Gorky
- “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” - Albert Ellis
- “Your work is discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” - Buddha
- “I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” - Groucho Marx
- “If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.” - Epicurus
- “That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.” - Henry David Thoreau
- “It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.” - Leo Tolstoy
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
- “And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.” - Confucius
- “Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.” - William Feather
- “The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.” - Andre Maurois
- “Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.” - John Henry Jowett
- “Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” - Helen Keller
- “Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.” - Marquis de Condorcet
- “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy.” - Leo Buscaglia
- “Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.” - Buddha
- “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw
- “Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.” - Mary Lou Retton
- “On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do.” - Eckhart Tolle
- “Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.” - Milton Erickson
- “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
- “Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” - Abraham Lincoln
- “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” - Marcel Proust
- “If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” - Morris West
- “Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.” - Joseph Campbell
- “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
- “Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.” - Leo Tolstoy
- “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
- “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
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