Happiness Quotes

The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else's hands, ready to be crushed at any moment? Ordinary-looking people are far superior, because they are forced to actually work hard to achieve their goals, instead of expecting people to fall all over themselves to help them.

~ J. Cornell Michel

When you fail, that is when you get closer to success.

~ Stephen Richards

The true measure of a man is how he treats you when others are not looking.

~ Alessandra Torre

Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'One grand boulevard with treeswith one grand cafe in sunwith strong black coffee in very small cups.One not necessarily very beautifulman or woman who loves you.One fine day.

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

~ Victor Hugo

It sometimes takes a state of solitude to bring to mind the real power of companionship.

~ Stephen Richards

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

~ Sigmund Freud

Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This is enough for us. In this belief we are content to live and die. If by any possibility the existence of a power superior to, and independent of, nature shall be demonstrated, there will then be time enough to kneel. Until then, let us stand erect.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

~ Robertson Davies

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

~ Neil Gaiman

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

~ P.d. James

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.

~ Criss Jami

I remember watching it all and getting the tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.

~ Gayle Forman

Doing the tough things sets winners apart from losers.

~ Stephen Richards

Hapiness is as exclusive as a butterfly, and you must never pursue it. If you stay very still, it may come and settle on your hand. But only briefly. Savour those moments, for they will not come in your way very often.

~ Ruskin Bond

If one has failed to develop curiosity and interest in the early years, it is a good idea to acquire them now, before it is too late to improve the quality of life. To do so is fairly easy in principle, but more difficult in practice. Yet it is sure worth trying. The first step is to develop the habit of doing whatever needs to be done with concentrated attention, with skill rather than inertia. Even the most routine tasks, like washing dishes, dressing, or mowing the lawn become more rewarding if we approach them with the care it would take to make a work of art. The next step is to transfer some psychic energy each day from tasks that we don’t like doing, or from passive leisure, into something we never did before, or something we enjoy doing but don’t do often enough because it seems too much trouble. There are literally millions of potentially interesting things in the world to see, to do, to learn about. But they don’t become actually interesting until we devote attention to them.

~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If you think you can then you can.

~ Stephen Richards

Contrary to what we usually believe, moments like these, the best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times—although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them. The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Optimal experience is thus something that wemake happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last blockon a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage. For each person there are thousands of opportunities, challenges to expand ourselves.

~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

When you know love then that is the time you forget hate.

~ Stephen Richards

Doing what you love is freedom. Loving what you do is happiness.

~ Lana Del Rey

Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.

~ Gregory David Roberts

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

~ George Washington

Happiness is a state of activity.

~ Aristotle

If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.

~ Robyn Schneider

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness--provided a person doesn't ask much of life. I want everything of life, I do; and I want it now! I want it total, complete: otherwise I reject it! I will not be moderate. I will not be satisfied with the bit of cake you offer me if I promise to be a good little girl. I want to be sure of everything this very day; sure that everything will be as beautiful as when I was a little girl. If not, I want to die!

~ Jean Anouilh

No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.

~ Colette

I'm a happy person. If you want to be around me, you can either choose to be happy too, or follow the signs to the nearest exit!

~ Sharon Swan

We'd just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a stop sign and were just waiting back to get the feel of the day, swimming in that kind of tasty drowsiness that comes over you after a day of going hard at something you enjoy doing -- half sunburned and half drunk and keeping awake only because you wanted to savor the taste as long as you could.

~ Ken Kesey

We've got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough.

~ Jack Johnson

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

Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Sometimes when I meet old friends, it reminds me how quickly time passes. And it makes me wonder if we've utilized our time properly or not. Proper utilization of time is so important. While we have this body, and especially this amazing human brain, I think every minute is something precious. Our day-to-day existence is very much alive with hope, although there is no guarantee of our future. There is no guarantee that tomorrow at this time we will be here. But we are working for that purely on the basis of hope. So, we need to make the best use of our time. I believe that the proper utilization of time is this: if you can, serve other people, other sentient beings. If not, at least refrain from harming them. I think that is the whole basis of my philosophy.So, let us reflect what is truly of value in life, what gives meaning to our lives, and set our priorities on the basis of that. The purpose of our life needs to be positive. We weren't born with the purpose of causing trouble, harming others. For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities—warmth, kindness, compassion. Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful—happier.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path.

~ Dean Koontz

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

~ Virginia Woolf

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.

~ Simon Van Booy