Quotes on Happiness.

Collection of famous quotes on happiness.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have. - Zig Ziglar

Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us. - W. N. Rieger

Happiness can only be experienced in the Now. - Jim Rohn

As long as we structure our lives in a way where our happiness is dependent upon something we cannot control, then we will experience pain. - Tony Robbins

The cornerstone of happiness is accepting yourself as a worthy human being. - Maxwell Maltz

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things. - Albert Einstein

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us because some other hour might take it away. - John Oliver Hobbes

The secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life, and in elevating them to art. - William Morris

Let's be grateful for those who give us happiness; they are the charming gardeners who make our soul bloom. - Marcel Proust

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. - Ayn Rand

A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him. - Alexander Humboldt

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation. - Bette Davis

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. - Storm Jameson

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. - Marcus Aurelius

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. - Ayn Rand

Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying, once and for all. - Ovid

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learn to be calm and you will always be happy. - Paramhansa Yogananda

Anyone who is happy has no reason to doubt what happiness is. But once it has slipped away, even so slightly, asking questions about happiness won't bring it back. - Deepak Chopra

The happiest and most vital people are those who have goals. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind. - Alice Meynell

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. - George Santayana

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now. - Zig Ziglar

Simply seek happiness and you are not likely to find it. Seek to create and love without regard to your happiness and you are likely to be happy much of the time. - M Scott Peck

If there is one reason for happiness, happiness ensues. It is a side effect of having a purpose, a meaning to life. - Robert J. Ringer

We are unhappy because we no longer have our self-esteem. We are unhappy because we no longer believe we are a special miracle, a special creation of God. We have lost faith in ourselves. - Og Mandino

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention. - E. F. Benson

Anyone could be unhappy; it took no courage or effort. True achievement lay in struggling to be happy. - Source Unknown

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually. - Stephen R. Covey

Until we are once happy, the longing for happiness must be, I suppose, the preoccupation of life. - Ruth Benedict

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. - Anne Frank

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. - Carl Jung

Happiness, I have discovered, is nearly always a rebound from hard work. - David Grayson

I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet. - Rosa Parks

Happiness is inward and not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. - Henry Van Dyke

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. - Greg Anderson

Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things that mar or bless the sum of human happiness. - Joseph Fort Newton

Just being happy helps other souls along; Their burdens may be heavy and they not strong; And your own sky will lighten, If other skies you brighten, by just being happy with a heart full of song. - Ripley D. Saunders

When every single thing you do aligns with your values, you will be among the happiest people on this earth. - Peter Thomas

Enthusiastic people are the ones who actually get things done in this world. Enthusiasm is what turns any idea into reality. And enthusiasm is linked closely with happiness. Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions. - Harold Acton

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. - Norman Vincent Peale

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. - Albert Schweitzer

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms. - Ding Ling

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. - Norman Vincent Peale

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. - Leon J. Suenes

Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow. - George W. Douglas

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

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. - Robert Herrick

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. - Francesca Reigler

Happiness is not the absence of problems; but the ability to deal with them. - H. Jackson (Jack) Brown Jr.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you will learn at once how big and precious it is" - Maxim Gorky

What is happiness? The feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome. - Friedrich Nietzshe

Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense -adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor. - Beatrice Lillie

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