Happiness Quotes

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Suffering teaches joy.

~ Sonia Rumzi

Probably the wisest words that were ever uttered to me. Came from a therapist. I was sitting in her office, crying my eyes out. . . and she said, So let me get this straight. You base your personal happiness on things entirely out of your control.

~ Laura Munson

She was not too young to be wise, but she was too young to know that wisdom shouldn't be spoken aloud when you are happy.

~ Graham Greene

Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!”(Analects 6.11)

~ Confucius

The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.

~ Anthony De Mello

Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.

~ Aaron Cohen

It is not really hard to do nothing. Many can. The hard part is doing nothing without feeling guilty about it.

~ Haim Shapira

You can'tstop dreamingjust becausethe night neverseems toend.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

We think a wise person is someone who solves problems. Truth is, a wise person is someone who avoids problems.

~ Prem Rawat

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

~ Plato

I let all that anger and worry go because they don't belong to me any more than the future does. And I don't wanna feel them anyhow, because the truth is, whatever happens when this war ends, here and now, far from Richmond County, I'm freer than I've ever been.

~ Teresa R. Funke

It’s all about reprogramming our minds to focus more on what brings us joy.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work.

~ Criss Jami

I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.

~ Criss Jami

Tout bonheur est un chef-d'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l'altère, la moindre lourder le dépare, la moindre sottise l'abêtit.

~ Marguerite Yourcenar

Knowledge, degrees and diplomas are not for everyone, but wisdom is. True wisdom is in being happy doing what you do best no matter how trivial it may seem as long as it is beneficial to you and to those around you.

~ Charbel Tadros

It takes practice, feeling happy about the ever enfolding events of life, and, because of all the conditioning we have undergone before this, it may be very difficult to make the change, but if we take the saying to heart and practice it, as the days unfold we will find ourselves living ever happier lives, smiling more, and finally, laughing more.

~ Wu Wei

I'm the girl that goes backwards, takes wrong turns, stumbles in the dark. I'm also the girl that finds gold where others feared to stray. Perhaps because I follow my heart instead of sage advice thrown my way. I don't want to become numb by always playing it safe. Many of our most cherished times happen when we shatter the damn box, step off the safety zone and listen to the sound of our soul.

~ Melody Lee

And then she reminded me: It's the journey, not the destination, true?True. I said A bit hackneyed, but true indeed.She sighed. I smiled.

~ Susan Spencer-Wendel

Happiness keeps you Sweet , Trials keep you Strong, Sorrows keep you Human, Failures keep you Humble, Success keeps you Glowing, But Only faith Keeps You Going! Be Happy Live Simply.

~ Abhysheq Shukla

Later that day when I walked down this dried-out riverbed, enjoying the last rays of sunshine on my bare skin, I felt a deep inner peace coming up straight from my heart.

~ Nina Hrusa

Happiness is heaven in human heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Die wertvollste Reise ist die Reise zu unserem Selbst.

~ Nina Hrusa

If you want to heal or experience more happiness in life, learn to move out of the mental body and be in your heart more. You will know you are in your head is when you analyze, control and overthink. When you have run on thoughts, worry, and talk without listening. When you take all the workshops and read all the books, but aren't experiencing it's message in your heart.

~ Eileen Anglin

There is no saint here. I have attained wisdom from life's experiences... the positive, the negative, the destructive, the nourishing. I have been medicine and I have been poison. I've learned a lot about heaven from aligning with angels and I learned a lot about hell from acting like a devil. I offer my scars... what you call wisdom... as insight I have gathered from my comfort of living within both the light and the shadow.

~ Steve Maraboli

Eventually, it boils down to two choices – do I wish to experience this physical reality primarily through joy or do I want to experience it through suffering? That’s all there is to it. And since each person eventually works their way toward the realization that conscious expansion can happen through joy rather than suffering – enlightenment is a natural byproduct.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

A man’s true world should be the space and people that enrich his soul

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

A woman’s love is all a man should expect from his wife. That love could be translated into so many positive things, especially if it is reciprocated.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Life is a rare fantasy that can be made a reality by being objective.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

...political realism is the way forward for any system that is genuinely for humanity or for the interest and advancement of the people of this world.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Even with all its positive attributes, capitalism in its imperialistic form is the most treacherous system mankind ever devised. It is driven by a selfishness that has an almost religious underlining to it.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Always strive to get what you want, what you need, especially if your intentions are good and nobody gets hurt in the process.

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Men have the blood of their fathers and the passions of their mothers, in the same sense that women have the blood of their mothers and the passions of their fathers. We often find ourselves trapped in life when we fail to balance the two. The most unusual of men are those who are haunted by the warped blood of their fathers and the untamed passions of their mothers. They become either the legends of the legends that mankind remembers for generations or they end up as the fools of their time

~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando

True Love is when you are able to see yourself in another, when you recognize that there is no separation between you and any other Being in the Universe.

~ Joseph P. Kauffman

Have you ever had a dream that you were certain was real, only to wake up and realize that everyone and everything in the dream was really you? Well this is how many mystics describe the nature of our reality, as a dream in which we think we are individual personalities existing in the physical universe. But eventually, like in all dreams, we will wake up. Except in this dream we do not wake up to realize we are still in the world, we awake from the world to realize that we are God.

~ Joseph P. Kauffman