Happiness Quotes

A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense from Maximegalon to try to reason with the lead singer who had locked himself in the bathroom with a bottle of pills and was refusing to come out till it could be proved conclusively to him that he wasn't a fish. The bass player was busy machine-gunning his bedroom and the drummer was nowhere on board.Frantic inquiries led to the discovery that he was standing on a beach on Santraginus V over a hundred light years away where, he claimed, he had been happy for over half an hour now and had found a small stone that would be his friend.

~ Douglas Adams

Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.

~ Deborah Day

Science of happiness lies in our understanding. The secrets of happiness lie in our capacity to expand our heart.

~ Amit Ray

Leave behind the passive dreaming of a rose-tinted future. The energy of happiness exists in living today with roots sunk firmly in reality's soil.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Better than fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of any, or all earthly friends. These are but shadows; but the enjoyment of God is the substance. These are but scattered beams; but God is the sun. These are but streams; but God is the fountain. These are but drops, but God is the ocean.

~ Jonathan Edwards

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.

~ Graham Greene

I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Are you happy?

~ Ray Bradbury

When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the abundance you seek.

~ Steve Maraboli

Finding happiness should not be seen as finding a needle in a haystack. Happiness is within. Each day is a blessing that brings an abundance of happiness. Therefore, finding happiness should be like finding a gift in a stack of gifts.

~ Steve Maraboli

Remember laughing? Laughter enhances the blood flow to the body’s extremities and improves cardiovascular function. Laughter releases endorphins and other natural mood elevating and pain-killing chemicals, improves the transfer of oxygen and nutrients to internal organs. Laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body fight off disease, cancer cells as well as viral, bacterial and other infections. Being happy is the best cure of all diseases!

~ Patch Adams

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.

~ Julie Andrews Edwards

I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.

~ Ai Yazawa

Cheer up and dry your damp eyes,And tell me when it rains,And I'll blend up that rainbow above you & shoot it through your veins...'Cause your heart has a lack of color,And we should've known That we'd grow up sooner or later,'Cause we wasted all our free time alone. <3

~ Owl City

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

~ Jacqueline Carey

It will hurt. said Petra. But let's make the most of what we have, and not let future pain ruin present happiness.

~ Orson Scott Card

We can't be so desperate for love that we forget where we can always find it, within.

~ Alexandra Elle

I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air. or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.

~ Willa Cather

You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.

~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.

~ Augustine Birrell

The business of being happy requires making a conscious choice. People think being happy will just happen to them someday, if only they do this or that right. But it doesn't - you have to choose it. You choose happiness, you don't wait for it to choose you.

~ Bethenny Frankel

A piece of happiness should never be taken as due.

~ Charlaine Harris

Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.

~ Stef Penney

She laughed. 'It won't last. Nothing lasts. But I'm happy now.''Happy,' I muttered, trying to pin the word down. But it is one of those words, like Love, that I have never quite understood. Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception--especially the big ones like Happy and Love and Honest and Strong. They are too elusive and far too relative when you compare them to sharp, mean little words like Punk and Cheap and Phony. I feel at home with these, because they're scrawny and easy to pin, but the big ones are tough and it takes either a priest or a fool to use them with any confidence.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

I promise you that the same stuff galaxies are made of, you are. The same energy that swings planets around stars makes electrons dance in your heart. It is in you, outside you, you are it. It is beautiful. Trust in this. And you your life will be grand.

~ Kamal Ravikant

Some people think they can find satisfaction in good food, fine clothes, lively music, and sexual pleasure. However, when they have all these things, they are not satisfied. They realize happiness is not simply having their material needs met. Thus, society has set up a system of rewards that go beyond material goods. These include titles, social recognition, status, and political power, all wrapped up in a package called self-fulfillment. Attracted by these prizes and goaded on by social pressure, people spend their short lives tiring body and mind to chase after these goals. Perhaps this gives them the feeling that they have achieved something in their lives, but in reality they have sacrificed a lot in life. They can no longer see, hear, act, feel, or think from their hearts. Everything they do is dictated by whether it can get them social gains. In the end, they've spent their lives following other people's demands and never lived a life of their own. How different is this from the life of a slave or a prisoner?

~ Liezi

Happiness is the most tired word in any language.

~ Erol Ozan

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

~ Napoleon Hill

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

~ William Saroyan

Sky is not a limit for me, because I have no limit for myself in life. Because life is a world full of risk taking and possibilities. No matter how hard or easy life is, I will always find a way to enjoy myself, even in the mist of circumstances, because problems is a sense of adventure in sheep's clothing.

~ Temitope Owosela

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,One clover, and a bee,And revery.The revery alone will do,If bees are few.

~ Emily Dickinson

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

~ Margaret Lee Runbeck

A grateful mindset can set you free from the prison of disempowerment and the shackles of misery.

~ Steve Maraboli

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.

~ Ingrid Bergman

IN THE HANDS OF MANHe who creates a poison, also has the cure.He who creates a virus, also has the antidote.He who creates chaos, also has the ability to create peace.He who sparks hate, also has the ability to transform it to love.He who creates misery, also has the ability to destroy it with kindness.He who creates sadness, also has the ability to to covert it to happiness.He who creates darkness, can also be awakened to produce illumination.He who spreads fear, can also be shaken to spread comfort.Any problems created by the left hand of man,Can also be solved with the right,For he who manifests anything,Also has the ability toDestroy it.

~ Suzy Kassem

one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.

~ Audrey Niffenegger

Good morning, Hell-A. In the land of the lotus-eaters, time plays tricks on you. One day you’re dreaming, the next, your dream has become your reality. It was the best of times. If only someone had told me. Mistakes were made, hearts were broken, harsh lessons learned. My family goes on without me, while I drown in a sea of pointless pussy. I don’t know how I got here. But here I am, rotting away in the warm California sun. There are things I need to figure out, for her sake, at least. The clock is ticking. The gap is widening. She won’t always love me “no matter what

~ Hank Moody

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne