Top 499 Happiness Quotes

Happiness Quotes: Finding Joy, Embracing Positivity, and Living a Fulfilling Life

The Pursuit of Happiness

Happiness is a state of being that we all aspire to achieve. It is the feeling of contentment, joy, and fulfillment that enriches our lives and brings a sense of purpose and meaning. In this article, we explore the essence of happiness through a collection of quotes that inspire us to find joy, embrace positivity, and live a truly fulfilling life.

The pursuit of happiness is a lifelong journey, and it is unique to each individual. It is not merely a destination but rather a way of life—a conscious choice to seek happiness in the present moment, to cultivate gratitude, and to nurture positive relationships and experiences. Happiness is found within ourselves, and it is our mindset and attitude that shape our ability to experience it fully.

Words of Joy: Quotes to Inspire Happiness

Throughout history, philosophers, writers, and individuals from various walks of life have contemplated the nature of happiness and shared their wisdom on how to attain it. Their quotes capture the essence of joy, gratitude, and the pursuit of a fulfilling life. Below, we present a collection of inspiring quotes that will uplift your spirits, inspire positive thinking, and remind you of the power you hold to create happiness in your life.

Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real h

Once you are satisfied with your goal, it is the real happiness.
Saina Nehwal
Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on ‘being more’ rather than simply having more.
Daisaku Ikeda
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
Joseph Addison
I’m an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.
Patrick Duffy
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
William S. Burroughs
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.
Thomas Traherne
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness does not consist in self-love.
Joseph Butler
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
James Allen
Having been in the restaurant business, our job in the restaurant business is to be responsible for our customers’ happiness. It’s the nature of the hospitality business. You need to take care of people. You take care of customers above all others. Customers are your lifeblood.
Andrew Zimmern
I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
Havelock Ellis
Individual freedoms are the primary engine by which the pursuit of happiness can be maximally instantiated.
Gad Saad
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
Parker Palmer
The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.
Daniel Kahneman
Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.
Shawn Achor
I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
Ric Ocasek
I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
Naveen Jain
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
Low expectations is the key to happiness in life.
Christopher Miller
Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they’re mine.
Patrick Ness
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Chuck Palahniuk
There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.
Aldous Huxley
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
Arthur Helps
Few and far between are the books you’ll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.
Michael A. Stackpole
I am possessive and protective of my babies. Their happiness means more to me than anything else on this world. I love them more than I would ever have thought was possible.
Debbie Rowe
To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.
Hermann Hesse
No one is perfect… absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace.
Richard Simmons
A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
Stendhal
Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren’t happy in one place, chances are you won’t be happy anyplace.
Ernie Banks
People can hate on you for doing what it is that makes you happy, but ultimately, it has to belong to you. It shouldn’t matter what anyone else thinks. Life is not easy. The road to happiness is not a path well trotted. You have to find your own path to enlightenment.
Jamie Campbell Bower
Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as t

Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.
Andrea Hirata
My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
David Mamet
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
Gustave Flaubert
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Arnold Bennett
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than any wild beast; his right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing but a license to maintain the struggle for existence, if he can find within himself the powers with which to do it.
William Graham Sumner
If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.
Ezra Taft Benson
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
Blaise Pascal
Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.
Frederick William Faber
Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that’s just the way it is!
Dita Von Teese
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
Clara Barton
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization.
Louis D. Brandeis
God is my witness that up to now, my only aspiration in life is to be a useful element within the army! I have for long been convinced that, to safeguard the country and give happiness to the people, it is necessary first of all to prove once more to the world that our army is still the old Turkish army.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.
Samuel Adams
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
Tom Waits
People don’t understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.
Richard Gere
Human mind has way too many shades. It would be so boring if this world was all sugar and gloss, just happy, colourful lives. People singing songs is not always the reality. Just like happiness and love, people also feel wrath, jealousy and vengeance!
Shweta Basu Prasad
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
Lydia M. Child
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
Leigh Hunt
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
Milan Kundera
Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn’t mean just a small happiness. It’s huge. It is profound.
David Lynch
Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
Jose Marti
When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
Arthur Ashe
Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears

Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we’ve come and the progress we’ve made.
John Lewis
I don’t desire happiness. I think it’s a myth, and I don’t think it’s… and it makes you complacent. I feel very satisfyingly uncomfortable. I have the freedom to feel uncomfortable in the way I want to, is maybe a way to put it.
Beau Willimon
My definition of beauty is happiness. I believe that when you are happy, it shines through and makes you a more attractive and beautiful person!
Bianca Balti
If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.
David Brainerd
I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.
Zhuangzi
Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.
Andrei Platonov
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man – that is, the more divine – the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
Miguel de Unamuno
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
Alphonse Karr
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
Baltasar Gracian
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
Heraclitus
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.
Billy Graham
Parties are organised happiness but happiness is accidental. You can’t legislate for it.
Dennis Skinner
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Rita Mae Brown
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.
Helen Keller
Happiness isn’t getting what you want, it’s wanting what you got.
Garth Brooks
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza
What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.
Henny Youngman
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Freya Stark
We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
Julian Casablancas
Happiness needs one-upmanship.
Zygmunt Bauman
I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.
Rush Limbaugh
If you don’t wake up and have your own thing, whether it’s writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or singing or being a mother or a father, something that drives you, then it’s all worth nothing. One of the key elements in happiness is purpose.
Logic
Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
Marquis de Sade
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Helen Keller
But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.
Lafcadio Hearn
Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.
Nikos Kazantzakis
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honore de Balzac
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Maxwell Maltz
There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that’s really what gives life’s true meaning.
Ben Carson
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Thomas Merton
Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy

Just stop for a minute and you’ll realize you’re happy just being. I think it’s the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it’s right here.
James Hillman
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
George Bernard Shaw
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.
Lucan
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as ‘an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.’
Kitty Kelley
This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.
Hermann Hesse
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Samuel Johnson
In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
When you’re happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness – and that’s a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.
Suze Orman
Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Louis D. Brandeis
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Langston Hughes
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
W. Somerset Maugham
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle
Independence is happiness.
Susan B. Anthony
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Elbert Hubbard
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher
I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.
Janet Jackson
Happiness is the target one only has to aim at in order to miss.
John Cooper Clarke
In my opinion happiness is nothing but satisfaction – satisfaction through work, thoughts and accomplishing our mission and vision.
P. T. Usha
Inside every adult there’s still a child that lingers. We’re happiness merchants – giving people the opportunity to dream like children.
Guy Laliberte
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert Staughton Lynd
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Although I never married, my brother fortunately did, and I have had the pleasure of watching his three sons and daughter grow up. Several of them now have children of their own. We have been a close-knit family, although often separated by distance, and have shared each other’s happiness, sorrows, and aspirations.
Gertrude B. Elion
I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.
David Letterman
The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.
Bryant H. McGill
I’ve realized through the years that I just find happiness in other things, whether it’s my dogs or my friends or, like, looking at the sunset. So if I were to wish for something else, it would just to be happy all the time, to have a superpower of not letting things affect me, and to be true to who I am, always.
Kylie Jenner
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.
Thich Nhat Hanh
If you are striving to have more happiness in your life, it helps to guide your mind towards starting to recognize what are selfish motivations and what are constructive motivations.
Adam Yauch
There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.
Denis Diderot
There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
Alfred de Musset
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.
Hannah Arendt
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one’s wife alone.
Guru Nanak
The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.
Thucydides
It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness.
Gretchen Rubin
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
Booth Tarkington
Who doesn’t love ‘Frogger?’ It draws its power from our shared memories of powerlessness. Wherever we are now, at one time or another we have all felt the poor frog’s anxiety in the face of the world’s intransigence, its blind and callous disregard for our happiness or well-being.
D. B. Weiss
We believe, as our founders did, that ‘the pursuit of happiness’ depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.
Paul Ryan
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
Valerie Bertinelli
I saw ‘Joy Luck Club’ when it came out, so that was early mid-’90s, and I remember seeing it with my long-time collaborator, Mina Shum. We’d just done ‘Double Happiness,’ and we saw this movie, and we were weeping. Like, shuddering weeping. Weeping more than really the film deserved.
Sandra Oh
If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
Andre Gide
Economists typically think that your happiness goes up as you get more money, but the more you have, the less each additional dollar matters. This means that you value money most in times when you have less income and more expenses.
Emily Oster
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another’s happiness.
Graham Greene
I honestly believe true happiness lies in lowered expectations. In opening the door to let the air in.
Sara Pascoe
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
Thomas Carlyle
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
William Inge
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.
Greg Anderson
When top scientists and psychologists talk about what’s important to our overall wellbeing and how satisfied we are with our lives, the only thing that they all agree on is that social relationships are probably the single best predictor of our overall happiness.
Tom Rath
I really wanted to buy a Range Rover. It was a big dream, and the day I bought it, I was very happy, but by evening, I was immune to it. That’s when I realized that excitement, if it’s happiness, is not in reaching the goal but in the process. Thus process trumps over realization.
Sushant Singh Rajput
Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
Adam Smith
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
Clara Schumann
God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
Aldous Huxley
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose Bierce
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Lord Byron
Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke
Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness, the feeling of positivity, really is the foundation of productivity.
Miguel McKelvey
Could we not argue that America is about freedom, whether we live it out or not, but it really is about freedom, equality and the pursuit of happiness. And that’s what church is all about.
Clementa C. Pinckney
People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
Joan Rivers
Love is trembling happiness.
Khalil Gibran
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
Hermann Hesse
I always say: ‘Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,’ but some things make me question it. I don’t know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that’s really scary.
Iggy Azalea
Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.
Andrew Weil
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
The success of a film at the box office will ensure happiness to the entire unit, but individual awards are like vitamin shots that will help boost the morale of an actor.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
Cannes or Oscars is not only to bring happiness and recognition – they protect people like me. The world knows who you are. You can work. You can express. You can help other people. It’s not only the star system. It’s a symbol of freedom.
Rithy Panh
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.
Thich Nhat Hanh
When you’re in love, you’re so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.
Emily Blunt
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
Horatio Nelson
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
Bernard Meltzer
Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.
Channing Pollock
Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!
Frederick William Faber
I wish all happiness, good health and togetherness to those close to me.
Shriya Saran
Nothing makes you feel better than when you get into a hotel bed, and the sheets feel so good. Why shouldn’t you wake up like that every day? Spend money on your mattress and bedding because these things make a difference on your sleep and, ultimately, your happiness.
Bobby Berk
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
Richard Bach
I wish people could achieve what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that that’s not really what happiness is.
Alanis Morissette
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I’m no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don’t possess any secret wisdom. I’m just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I’m highly emotional. I’m very vulnerable.
Janet Jackson
Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.
Martin Yan
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
I was always worried about things but I focused on finding happiness.
Kim Tae-hyung
Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.
Russell M. Nelson
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.
Ayn Rand
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life – a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
Princess Diana
Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The happiness of society is the end of government.
John Adams
You don’t think in depression that you’ve put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You think that the veil has been taken away, the veil of happiness, and that now you’re seeing truly.
Andrew Solomon
Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
Saul Bellow
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Lord Byron
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
Austin O’Malley
I’m a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.
Carrie Underwood
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
Alexander Alekhine
I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.
Brene Brown
Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.
Kehlani
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Soren Kierkegaard
We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.
Maurice Maeterlinck
There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.
Anwar Sadat
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
Eckhart Tolle
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
Frank McCourt
There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.
Daniel Kahneman
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
Daniel Boone
Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.
Alice Walker
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.
Plato
You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can’t see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that’s me.
Vivien Leigh
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
Honestly, just live your life to the fullest. Laugh a lot, love and find your true happiness.
Cody Walker
Every age has its happiness and troubles.
Jeanne Calment
But my happiness in this world – my level of peace – is never going to be dictated by acting.
Chris Evans
Happiness is not something you achieve. It's not someth

Happiness is not something you achieve. It’s not something you do or someplace you get to. Happiness is something you inhabit.
Mark Manson
With happiness as with health: to enjoy it, one should be deprived of it occasionally.
Jules Verne
Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.
Shawn Achor
We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.
Thich Nhat Hanh
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
William Shakespeare
The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the basis of happiness. A person cannot accumulate a fortune very well when he is sick.
P. T. Barnum
Now you know my credo: Free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. And let me add to that from our Founding Fathers: Our Creator endowed us with the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In other words, freedom.
Lawrence Kudlow
You can be happy where you are.
Joel Osteen
Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.
Ezra Taft Benson
Real and true happiness is having a relationship with God and not what makes us happy.
Mike Fisher
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
Louise Hart
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Arthur Rimbaud
When what we are is what we want to be, that’s happiness.
Malcolm Forbes
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
John Mayer
Like anything worth doing in life, happiness takes time and patience and consistency.
Mark Manson
Understanding your employee’s perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.
Kathryn Minshew
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry Ford
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
William Blake
I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.
Christina Milian
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Henry David Thoreau
Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.
Scott Weiss
The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.
Artie Lange
Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn’t-fair results, it turns out that the happy outperform the less happy. Happy people work more hours each week – and they work more in their free time, too.
Gretchen Rubin
Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
Ranbir Kapoor
Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.
Prem Rawat
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
Napoleon Hill
The mantra that you’re given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.
David Lynch
Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember.
Oscar Levant
The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
Chanakya
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert
I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I’m quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there’s been a good degree of self-sabotage.
Patrick deWitt
Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.
John Harrigan
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
Sigmund Freud
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
John Dryden
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
Bryant H. McGill
My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and smile.
Jennifer Garner
I’ve been very lucky to have achieved a lot of the things that I dreamt of achieving as a young man. But, at the end of the day – and I truly believe this – it is not about achieving great wealth or success. Because they don’t bring happiness, ultimately.
Leonardo DiCaprio
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison
The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, ‘What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That’s even the root of that word. How could it be work?’
Ariel Gore
But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.
Richard Cobden
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer
We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.
Alanis Morissette
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. Bradley
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Friedrich Schiller
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius
Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.
Brad Pitt
The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.
Martin Seligman
I do believe that if you haven’t learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
Nana Mouskouri
The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.
Frederick Douglass
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.
George Eliot
Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.
Herbert Hoover
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso
Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.
Shawn Achor
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.
Audrey Hepburn
Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.
Aldous Huxley
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
William Dean Howells
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
Ingrid Bergman
I define my life around happiness, being safe, being able to enjoy life and live this life for a long time.
George Hill
The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to

The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.
Marie Kondo
I think life is difficult and that’s that. I am not at all – absolutely not at all – interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.
Jamaica Kincaid
Money’s a necessary evil, there to give you moments. It gives me things I couldn’t have – nice things – but happiness? That’s a not a question of money and fame. Quite the opposite.
Dani Alves
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
Pierre Corneille
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.
John W. Gardner
Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don’t collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don’t really mean anything.
Norman Lear
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
Ovid
Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
Bertolt Brecht
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson
Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.
Robert Baden-Powell
You always hear the phrase, money doesn’t buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it’s not really true. I got a new car because the old one’s lease expired.
Sergey Brin
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
Charles Caleb Colton
I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.
Hugh Laurie
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Benjamin Disraeli
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
Blaise Pascal
In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.
James E. Faust
Joys divided are increased.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.
John Barrymore
Happiness is only real when shared.
Christopher McCandless
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
It’s not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you’re grateful, you can find happiness in everything.
Pharrell Williams
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
Ogden Nash
You’ve got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world’s most powerful – and neglected – secret to success and happiness.
Percy Ross
The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That’s all. It doesn’t guarantee our rights to charity.
Jesse Ventura
Conformity is painful. You know, it’s too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom.
Thomas Jane
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.
Charlie Chaplin
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Omar Khayyam
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
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
Emil Cioran
I say there is not more happiness for me than the freed

I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.
Islom Karimov
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
George Sand
Happiness isn’t happiness unless there’s a violin-playing goat.
Julia Roberts
Try harder to be better and the universe will work towards giving you more happiness.
Heart Evangelista
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Barbara De Angelis
Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.
Chris Bailey
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
George Orwell
I’m constantly tortured, and that’s why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.
John Zorn
For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness.
Matthew Stewart
We thought L.A. would just be sunshine and happiness all around.
Rose
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
Martha Washington
Ultimately, I want to be a good person and spread happiness through my acting. If I don’t forget to be appreciative and thankful, then that would be the most important thing that I’ll ever achieve.
Park Bo-gum
If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
George Washington
Happiness is always a coincidence.
Jose Bergamin
Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.
Emile Zola
An actor’s body should be full of emotions, whether it is happiness or sorrow, pain or joy, enraged or elated.
Sonny Chiba
It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.
Hermann Hesse
So, my happiness doesn’t come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
Nicki Minaj
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
Michael J. Fox
Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don’t think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.
Indira Gandhi
I’m not a showoff. My happiness comes from very basic and simple things.
Dennis Lloyd
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.
Josephine Baker
For me, the opposite of happiness isn’t sadness but boredom.
Sushant Singh Rajput
A good education is another name for happiness.
Ann Plato
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
Anna Pavlova
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
Oliver Goldsmith
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin
You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.
Julia Roberts
The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you’re in it. Nothing can be controlled.
Eliza Doolittle
Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of an

Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I’m totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.
Maeve Binchy
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.
Martha Washington
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.
John Buchan
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. Salinger
Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty – self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
Maria Montessori
Life happens fast. You have to have a Plan B, a backup plan and really figure out a way to have different avenues of income and just avenues of happiness. That is what is really important, being at peace and having that happiness.
C. J. McCollum
Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.
Jon Krakauer
My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It’s been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.
Anderson Paak
The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
Omar Bongo
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
Milan Kundera
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate… is a totalitarian’s dream.
Steven Pinker
There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.
Euripides
From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.
Dennis Prager
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
Jonathan Safran Foer
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris
In the face of love, everyone is equal. Let everyone have the freedom to love and to pursue their happiness. I am Tsai Ing-wen, and I support marriage equality.
Tsai Ing-wen
Through a long and painful process, I’ve learned that happiness is an inside job – not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I’ve become a different and better person – not perfect, but still a work in progress.
Alana Stewart
For me, beauty comes from natural happiness. I think that a woman glows, and a man, even, when they’re healthy and they’re happy.
Michelle Yeoh
Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch
I believe in the ideals of America, in liberty, justice, and the pursuit of happiness.
Ilhan Omar
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
Chanakya
The music is the message, the message is the music. So that’s my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me – a little ministry called love and happiness.
Al Green
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.
Mahatma Gandhi
To me, flowers are happiness.
Stefano Gabbana
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
Gertrude Jekyll
Money will not give you happiness; it’s part of the key.
Logic
Once I hit 25, people started asking me about marriage and kids all the time. I remember hitting 35 and some would ask the same questions with a strange tone, as if my life was somehow over because I hadn’t yet settled into their version of happiness.
Jedediah Bila
It is work, work that one delights in, that is the sure

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one’s earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.
Ashley Montagu
The more you practise happiness, the better you get at it. So if you spend lots of time practising being depressed, you’re going to get really good at being depressed. And if you spend lots of time practising being happy, you’re going to get better at being happy.
Joe Wright
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. Heinlein
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Tryon Edwards
I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
Ted Nugent
Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
Sam Levenson
Being rich and famous isn’t all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.
Frida Lyngstad
I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I’m kind of thankful for that. If you grow up just watching MTV, that’s its own form of religion, and it’s not even based on happiness or communal responsibility. I mean, try to construct a worldview out of that.
Win Butler
You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
Brad Garrett
I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Martha Washington
Money can’t buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places.
Milton Berle
When a man has lost all happiness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.
Sophocles
I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.
Lupita Nyong’o
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Arthur Schopenhauer
All the riches in the world do not come close to the happiness of having children and being a mother.
Jocelyn Wildenstein
The will of man is his happiness.
Friedrich Schiller
I’m a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.
Helen McCrory
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Khalil Gibran
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
V. S. Pritchett
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Euripides
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert Camus
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns
Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
Stendhal
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Sugar brings happiness. Eating it once or twice a week in a dessert, that’s what life is about. There is nothing wrong with it.
Adriano Zumbo
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.
William Bennett
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.
Mortimer Adler
Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
Orison Swett Marden
When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but we still do it. And we do it for a very good reason: They bring so much joy and optimism and happiness. They attack every moment of every day with that attitude.
W. Bruce Cameron
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attai

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will.
Thomas Aquinas
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Dante Alighieri
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
Napoleon Hill
Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
John Ruskin
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Aeschylus
When ‘happiness’ eludes us – as, eventually, it always will – we have the invitation to examine our programmed responses and to exercise our power to choose again.
Richard Rohr
The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Frank Norris
Happiness is such a good state, it doesn’t need to be creative. You’re not creative from happiness, you’re just happy. You’re creative when you’re miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.
Marina Abramovic
If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.
Evita Peron
I’ll never forget the blooming happiness that spread in me like the sun coming up when Lydia’s obstetrician poked me awake: ‘Congratulations… you have a fine son.’
Charlton Heston
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost
With trans people, I just think you can’t help the way you are born, though. You know, it’s DNA, it’s genetics. I’m just glad people can do things about their own happiness. I think this thought process that they’re trying to wipe out women is a bit ridiculous – it’s a minority of people.
Kathy Burke
Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.
Robert Green Ingersoll
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
Montesquieu
Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love… if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.
Curtis Mayfield
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
Denzel Washington
It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.
Jordan Peterson
Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There’s immense happiness that can come from working towards that.
Nick Cave
The culture of a workplace – an organization’s values, norms and practices – has a huge impact on our happiness and success.
Adam Grant
Happiness does not come from football awards. It’s terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don’t dream football, I dream the American dream – two cars in a garage, be a happy father.
Barry Sanders
Happiness is being on the beam with life – to feel the pull of life.
Agnes Martin
‘Sunrise Sunset’ is about trying to get to a place where life is simple and not letting the stress and happenings in the world get in the way of your happiness.
Benny Cassette
Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give – pleasure, possessions, power – but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
Dada Vaswani
As attractive as it is, the idea that nature can exist beyond our dangerous ‘instinct for happiness’ is never the whole story.
John Burnside
Ironically, the pursuit of happiness can lead us into the eternal trap of chasing unhappiness.
Justin Kan
I’m promoting positivity. I’m promoting happiness and loving yourself and having fun. But it’s not a joke.
Lil Yachty
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Samuel Johnson
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
John Stuart Mill
I’m sure, ever since I was really young, that happiness is not a bottle of champagne and a girl and a limousine and a swimming pool.
Stromae
I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.
Alain Delon
I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment – something you don’t create, you encounter.
Yoko Ono
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for othe

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.
Dalai Lama
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Karl Marx
Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.
Beyonce Knowles
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business.
Dolley Madison
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
Benjamin Spock
You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can’t run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.
Dale Archer
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Leo Tolstoy
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Sydney J. Harris
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
Denis Waitley
Eros is not tranquil – it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It’s the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression ‘falling in love’ since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.
Francois Lelord
Religion will prove to the believer a comforter and a sure guide to the fountain of true happiness.
Ellen G. White
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
Ethel Percy Andrus
No amount of money can replace the kind of happiness and satisfaction I derive out of writing.
Sreenivasan
Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
Peabo Bryson
It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.
George Foreman
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
Walter Savage Landor
He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
Abu Bakr
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Euripides
To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole.
Jefferson Davis
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Ambrose Bierce
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Thomas Paine
The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself… One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence, honor, and happiness of the future generations.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word – it’s happiness. People do not distinguish.
Daniel Kahneman
Everyone needs resilience. It’s a virtue essential to growth and essential to happiness.
Eric Greitens
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide
My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
Anne Lamott
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
James Allen
You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
Tracy Kidder
My aim in life isn’t so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.
Charles Saatchi
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!
William Hazlitt
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It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.
Ellen G. White
There is an old saying that money can’t buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game.
Pete Rose
Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
Freddie Mercury
People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
Chuck Norris
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
John Stuart Mill
I get way too much happiness from good food.
Elizabeth Olsen
Everybody knows when you’re a struggling family; you don’t really know it when you’re a kid. But you do know the difference between stress and moments of relief where there’s, like, this happiness.
Bonnie Hunt
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.
Douglas William Jerrold
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Hosea Ballou
No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that’s why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.
Emily Oster
We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.
Mary Oliver
I don’t like the word ‘balance.’ To me, that somehow conjures up conflict between work and family… as long as we think of these things as conflicting, we will never have happiness. True happiness comes from integration… of work, family, self, community.
Padmasree Warrior
Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as a being of worth and dignity.
Rollo May
In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.
Alice Walker
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Maria Mitchell
If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.
Leon Kass
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Charles Spurgeon
Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.
Julian Baggini
How could anybody possibly have a problem with two people falling in love and finding happiness together?
Chris Harrison
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy?
Leslie Caron
Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
Conor Oberst
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
Thomas Huxley
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
John Gunther
Happiness does not come from a job. It comes from knowing what you truly value and behaving in a way that’s consistent with those beliefs.
Mike Rowe
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
Josh Billings
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.
Dada Vaswani
Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander Pope
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness:

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
Franz Kafka
It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant
When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.
Daniel Kahneman

In conclusion, happiness quotes remind us of the power we hold to cultivate joy, embrace positivity, and live a truly fulfilling life. They inspire us to shift our perspective, nurture gratitude, and seek happiness within ourselves. Let these quotes resonate with you as you navigate the ups and downs of life, and may they serve as a reminder that true happiness is not found in external circumstances but rather in the choices we make and the mindset we embrace.