Happiness Quotes

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it

~ Viktor E. Frankl

The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.

~ Carrie Jones

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

~ Henrik Ibsen

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

~ G.k. Chesterton

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

~ Anne Frank

I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.

~ Drew Barrymore

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

~ Douglas Adams

Laughter is poison to fear.

~ George R.r. Martin

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.

~ Mandy Hale

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

~ Charles Bukowski

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

~ Groucho Marx

Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

~ Martha Washington

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

~ Bill Watterson

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

~ J.d. Salinger

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

~ John Keats

The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.

~ Graham Greene

What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.

~ Anaïs Nin

I am very happyBecause I have conquered myselfAnd not the world.I am very happyBecause I have loved the worldAnd not myself.

~ Sri Chinmoy

I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

~ J.d. Salinger

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

~ C.s. Lewis

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

~ William James

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

~ William James

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.

~ Laini Taylor

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

~ Epictetus

Very little is needed to make a happy life, it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

All who joy would winMust share it -- Happiness was born a twin.

~ George Gordon Byron

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted, yet everyone takes the happy person for granted. No one is careful of his feelings or tries to keep his spirits high. He seems self-sufficient; he becomes a cushion for others. And because happiness seems unforced, that person usually gets no credit.

~ Gretchen Rubin

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

~ Gregory David Roberts

There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

~ Stendhal

Success is getting what you want..Happiness is wanting what you get.

~ Dale Carnegie

We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same.

~ Anne Frank

those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.

~ Alex Flinn