Happiness Quotes

Deep within everyone's heart there always remains a sense of longing for that hour, that summer, that one brief moment of blossoming. For several weeks or months, rarely longer, a beautiful young woman lives outside ordinary life. She is intoxicated. She feels as if she exists beyond time, beyond its laws; she experiences not the monotonous succession of days passing by, but moments of intense, almost desperate happiness.

~ Irène Némirovsky

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

~ Albert Camus

My request today is simple. Today. Tomorrow. Next week. Find somebody, anybody, that’s different than you. Somebody that has made you feel ill-will or even hateful. Somebody whose life decisions have made you uncomfortable. Somebody who practices a different religion than you do. Somebody who has been lost to addiction. Somebody with a criminal past. Somebody who dresses “below” you. Somebody with disabilities. Somebody who lives an alternative lifestyle. Somebody without a home.Somebody that you, until now, would always avoid, always look down on, and always be disgusted by.Reach your arm out and put it around them.And then, tell them they’re all right. Tell them they have a friend. Tell them you love them.If you or I wanna make a change in this world, that’s where we’re gonna be able to do it. That’s where we’ll start.Every. Single. Time.

~ Dan Pearce

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

~ Bertrand Russell

I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.

~ Hermann Hesse

Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is only a formality. Without that faith, I suppose, they might never start. Somewhere on the way they lift their eyes to the summit and know they aren't going to reach it; and happiness then is looking down and enjoying the view they've got, not envying the one they haven't.

~ Dick Francis

Monsters don’t get happy endings.

~ Paula Stokes

Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself. (250)

~ Victoria Moran

May those who follow their fate be granted happiness, may those who defy it be granted glory

~ Mizuo Shinonome

You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable.

~ Steve Maraboli

Free yourself from the complexities of your life! A life of simplicity and happiness awaits you.

~ Steve Maraboli

A life of happiness, peace, and love is all within our grasp.

~ Steve Maraboli

You don’t have to be happy to smile.

~ Daniel Willey

my child, if you want to have a beautiful and happy life... 2 things you need... learn the art of love and practice it with your beloved one.

~ Carlos Barrios

When you win and the other fellow loses, what do you see? A losing face. There is great joy in losing and making the other person win and have a happy face. Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.

~ Swami Satchidananda

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

~ Quentin Crisp

You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.

~ Deborah Day

Taking a risk to survive isn’t that impressive. Taking a risk to be happy, that takes guts.

~ Sarah Noffke

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ‘em, join ‘em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe a happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Do not sabotage your new relationship with your last relationship’s poison.

~ Steve Maraboli

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.

~ Martha Washington

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)

~ Charles Dickens

And for a moment―for a split second―everything else falls away, the whole pattern and order of my life, and a huge joy crests in my chest. I am no one, and I owe nothing to anybody, and my life is my own.

~ Lauren Oliver

The devil's happy when the critics run you off.

~ Criss Jami

Last weekend a young man asked me how I remain so positive. “It seems all the negativity in the world doesn’t affect you,” he said. I had no more than a minute with the young man so I offered this: It’s all about where you choose to put your attention, and I choose to be happy.

~ Jason Mraz

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one

~ Voltaire

Live Today! Do not allow your spirit to be softened of your happiness to be limited by a day you cannot have back or a day that does not yet exist.

~ Steve Maraboli

Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.

~ Stephen King

I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out.

~ Audrey Niffenegger

Who’s happy? Happy is just what people think they are when they can’t find anything to bitch about.

~ Rasmenia Massoud

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

~ Oprah Winfrey

We are young, but We already know that in life's great game those who are most unhappy are those who haven't taken the risk to be happy. And I don't want to be one of those

~ Guillaume Musso

Sometimes it just feels really really wonderful to be alive.

~ Doug Coupland

Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life. It Really Is.

~ Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can be right or you can be happy.

~ Gerald G. Jampolsky

Erase from your vocabulary the word “someday.” Do not save things for “special occasions.” Take into account the fact that every day is special. Every day is a gift that we must appreciate and be thankful for. Wear your attractive clothes, wear your nice perfume, use your fine silverware and dishes, and drink from your expensive crystal glasses … just because. Live every day to the fullest and savor every minute of it.

~ Rodolfo Costa

Pure joy is rare. That’s why for every meal I eat a really bloody steak.

~ Bauvard

People who say that money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop.

~ Kathy Lette

I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of my culture to seek happiness. Not just any kind of happiness, either, but profound happiness, even soaring happiness. And what could possibly bring a person more soaring happiness than romantic love.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in.

~ Gabrielle Bernstein