Happiness Quotes
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The Power which creates and sustains everything is now creating everything necessary to my happiness.
Ernest Holmes
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Fearlessness begets happiness, which begets creativity, which begets innovation, which begets profits.
Ben Chestnut
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I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you're watching something you do make somebody happy, that's when happiness happens.
Eve Ensler
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Sun, silence, and happiness.
Nancy Mitford
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Smile ..... Expand HappinesS.
Enrique Rocha
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How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?
Anthony Malcolm Daniels
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She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Our spirit is the real part of us, the body but its garment. A man would not find peace at the tailor's because his coat comes from there; neither can the spirit obtain true happiness from the earth just because his body belongs to earth.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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... it seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the smallest possible use; yet for whose sake I have suffered the discomfort attending all action in moral improvements, without the happiness of knowing that this was clearly quite worth while.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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Wisdom can boast no higher attainment than happiness.
Ann Radcliffe
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If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.
Gautama Buddha
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Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.
Elizabeth Goudge
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You know, happiness isn't a permanent state. Neither is unhappiness. There's a flow, back and forth
Carole L. Glickfeld
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Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.
Epictetus
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For once, he could look back at the past without regret, and at the future without bewilderment. Simply and touchingly, he wrote in his diary: “I have had so much happiness in my life so far that I feel, no matter what sorrows come, the joys will have overbalanced them."
Edmund Morris
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No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.
John Calvin
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People wait their whole lives for the kind of happiness we have.
Melissa Bank
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Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.
Claudius Claudianus
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Showing gratitude for the good things you have is the most powerful happiness boosting activity there is.
Eric Barker
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I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness – people and things that are compatible, love.... So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.
William Faulkner
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Gautama Buddha
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Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
George William Curtis
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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].
William Lyon Phelps