80+ Happiness Quotes That Will Lighten Your Spirit
This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow’s happiness grow.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
He who sings frightens away his ills.
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves.
There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.
The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into actions.
No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day’s work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there’s no happiness without action.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found without virtue.
The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence.
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
The briefest and simplest definition of happiness is to live for the happiness of others and to see others happy.
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is, courage.
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.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
There are chords in every human heart. If we only know how to strike the right chord, we bring out the music.
Happiness, not in another place but this place… Not for another hour, but this hour.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Happiness sneaks through a door you didn’t know that you left open.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.
But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
Happiness cannot be found; it must be created anew everyday.
Happiness consists in activity. It is running stream, not a stagnant pool.
Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid to lengthy meditation on the past.
When what we are is what we want to be, that’s happiness.
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being, the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of, is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness, it means more to me than my life itself.
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
Happiness is a state of activity.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
The man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
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.
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this live whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.
Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp… But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
The highest happiness of man… is to have probed what is knowable and quietly revere what is unknowable.