Happiness Quotes
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You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.
Ray Bradbury
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To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.
Jane Austen
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It's hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.
Shawn Achor
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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
Henrik Ibsen
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Don't put off joy and happiness. Strive to live each day to its fullest, squeezing all the joy you can out of each moment. Instead of measuring your life's value by your progress toward a single goal, remember that the direction you're headed in is more important than temporary results.
Anthony Robbins
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You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day - should exist in the world, not much to whom it comes. For all of us it is so transitory a thing, how could one not draw joy from its arrival?
Winifred Holtby
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The key to happiness was achievable dreams.
Nicholas Sparks
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It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.
Simon Travaglia
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Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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True happiness doesn’t distinguish between the kind of happiness you get from having fun and the sadness you feel when something goes wrong.
Andy Puddicombe
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The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
Eudora Welty
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We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be weeping.
Minna Antrim
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The closest synonym of happiness is excitement, and you can generate it by doing something that you can't completely comprehend. This understanding makes the process rich and exciting.
Sushant Singh Rajput
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Make my happiness--I will make yours.
Charlotte Bronte
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I always tell people happiness comes in one word: progress. I don't care what you achieve.
Anthony Robbins
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An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.
Stephen Fry
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Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all-do it for peace. So let us radiate peace...and extinguish in the world and in the hearts of all men all hatred and love for power.
Mother Teresa
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Fostering your sense of creativity can give you feelings of freedom, delight and passion. It can help you see your life in a new light and help you to tackle situations that you thought were hopeless. When you express yourself through creative action you find gifts such as: happiness, self worth, healing, and inner joy.
Ami McKay
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It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.
Elsie de Wolfe
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Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing... to stay alive for them.
Sylvie Meis
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Happiness is a rare cosmetic.
George Whyte-Melville
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You reach peaks only to see there's another greater peak beyond it. Suddenly that one looks like it'd have a much better view. It's an endless cycle of going toward things that you think will provide you happiness. At the end of the day, right now, right here, wherever you are, you can make a choice to be present and happy and fulfilled.
Eric Lange
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Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
William S. Burroughs