Happiness Quotes

...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

~ Rohinton Mistry

After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?

~ E.m. Forster

Take responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, or you could be disappointed.

~ Rodolfo Costa

An important decision I made was to resist playing the Blame Game. The day I realized that I am in charge of how I will approach problems in my life, that things will turn out better or worse because of me and nobody else, that was the day I knew I would be a happier and healthier person. And that was the day I knew I could truly build a life that matters.

~ Steve Goodier

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

~ Oscar Wilde

The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Justice is the only worship.Love is the only priest.Ignorance is the only slavery.Happiness is the only good.The time to be happy is now,The place to be happy is here,The way to be happy is to make others so.Wisdom is the science of happiness.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

The road is long, we carry on, try to have fun in the meantime.

~ Lana Del Rey

Stop wasting your time looking for the key to happiness… the door is open and unlocked… just walk through it.

~ Steve Maraboli

We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.

~ Matthieu Ricard

Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.

~ Colum Mccann

You start dying slowly if you do not travel, if you do not read, If you do not listen to the sounds of life, If you do not appreciate yourself.You start dying slowly When you kill your self-esteem; When you do not let others help you.You start dying slowly If you become a slave of your habits, Walking everyday on the same paths…If you do not change your routine, If you do not wear different colours Or you do not speak to those you don’t know.You start dying slowly If you avoid to feel passion And their turbulent emotions; Those which make your eyes glisten And your heart beat fast.You start dying slowly If you do not change your life when you are not satisfied with your job, or with your love, If you do not risk what is safe for the uncertain, If you do not go after a dream, If you do not allow yourself, At least once in your lifetime, To run away from sensible advice.

~ Martha Medeiros

Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either.  There's both sweet and sour in every day.  So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what's beautiful?  Concentrate on the good.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Happiness is good, but well-overrated: what we hate most are the very motivators that put us in gear. A man drifts along with little to contribute until something agitates him enough to make a difference, whether for himself or for his communities.

~ Criss Jami

To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as well as those publications, that discover the principles which actuate them, may tend to convince mankind that the grand object of Masonry is to promote the happiness of the human race.]

~ George Washington

If you want good luck, you must go out there and search for that luck!! Because luck is waiting for you to look for it.

~ Temitope Owosela

When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew

~ William Shakespeare

You are so intense. Like a storm. It's shocking how intense you are.

~ Francesca Lia Block

Making money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.

~ John Chrysostom

Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most.

~ Rodolfo Costa

Today, just take time to smell the roses, enjoy those little things about your life, your family, spouse, friends, job. Forget about the thorns -the pains and problems they cause you - and enjoy life

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

~ George Bernard Shaw

I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness.

~ Zhuangzi

I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later.

~ Esmeralda Santiago

I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.

~ Marcel Duchamp

Those who wish to sing always find a song.

~ Swedish Proverb

when happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying when the happiness would be taken away.

~ Marian Keyes

if it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad?

~ Sheryl Crow

I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy.

~ David Thewlis

Then the world will be for the common people, and the sounds of happiness will reach the deepest springs. Ah! Come! People of every land, how can you not be roused.

~ Karl Marx

I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Freddie often fold me that you've got to be happy when you can, because life won't wait for you to take the time. And she was right.

~ April Genevieve Tucholke

All things, even the deepest sorrow or the most profound happiness are all temporary. Hope is fuel for the soul, without hope, forward motion ceases.

~ Landon Parham

... too much brooding, not enough doing.

~ Timothy Findley

تعرفون اني لم أكن ملاكا طيلة الوقت , و أن الخلافات كانت تحدث من حيت لآخر , لكن لو نظرت للصورة الإجمالية من بعيد -حين تختفي البقع السوداء الصغيرةلأدركت اننا سعيدين حقا ..

~ أحمد خالد توفيق

Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

~ Wayne W. Dyer

Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honours its laws.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

~ Orson Scott Card