Happiness Quotes

Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other, they are eternally at war.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

She was wearing her fuzzy pink hat and she was happy, which was so obnoxious. She'd become one of those people who waltzed through life without so much as a split end, and I was still one of those people who changed diapers for free but still got treated like a rented mule.

~ Lorraine Zago Rosenthal

She'd spoken of their happiness as though it were an undeniable fact, no matter what happened--apart from everything else and not subject to it. It was a new idea for him, that happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won--some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it--but something to carry doggedly with you through everything, as humble and ordinary as your gear and supplies. Food, weapons, happiness.With hope that the weapons could in time vanish from the picture.

~ Laini Taylor

When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as is supposed by some who are either ignorant or disagree with us or do not understand, but freedom from pain in the body and from trouble in the mind. For it is not continuous drinkings and revelings, nor the satisfaction of lusts, nor the enjoyment of fish and other luxuries of the wealthy table, which produce a pleasant life, but sober reasoning, searching out the motives for all choice and avoidance, and banishing mere opinions, to which are due the greatest disturbance of the spirit.

~ Epicurus

And all the best words together couldn't hold the happiness.

~ Katherine Hannigan

There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies a good conscience…These testimonies of a good conscience are pleasant; and such a natural pleasure is very beneficial to us; it is the only payment that can never fail. “On Repentance

~ Michel De Montaigne

Be consistent in your dedication to showing your gratitude to others. Gratitude is a fuel, a medicine, and spiritual and emotional nourishment.

~ Steve Maraboli

He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed.

~ E.m. Forster

Love me like Saturday night, like three glasses of champagne, like the room is spinning, like you're drunk on my love.

~ C.j. Carlyon

Be happy without picking flaws.

~ Victor Hugo

Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.

~ Dan Pearce

LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

~ William Shakespeare

What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don't need.

~ George Alexiou

And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It's all about light and shade. Balance.

~ Gabrielle Williams

I'm so alive.As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afternoon breeze blows down from the hills behind. As always, it is a beautiful day. The sun is making its final descent. The magic is about to begin. The skies are ready to burn with brilliance, as it turns from a soft blue to a bright orange. Looking towards the West, I stare in awe at the hypnotic power of the waves. A giant curl begins to take form, then breaks with a thundering clap as it crashes on the shore.

~ Dave Pelzer

What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime.

~ Christopher Hitchens

When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. Each walk should be taken as if it is the only thing you have left. You can demand something like this of yourself as an unattainable ideal. After that, you have to remind yourself about it every time you're sloppy about something. For me that means 250 times a day.

~ Peter Høeg

Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.

~ Danny Wallace

Happiness is a big joke, let us laugh at it loud.

~ Santosh Kalwar

The key to ultimate happiness and fulfillment lies within our own transformation. The more we learn and grow and evolve as individuals, the more we will find happiness and satisfaction in relationships, work and life.

~ Kristi Bowman

The secret to happiness is low expectations.

~ Barry Schwartz

The process of discovering your fearless self is of refinement, not adding. The best way to reconnect with your freedom is to look at the rules you have that govern your freedom.

~ Steve Maraboli

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

~ Mary Balogh

It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.

~ Sebastian Barry

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.

~ Bill Vaughan

It’s true that laughter really is cheap medicine. It’s a prescription anyone can afford. And best of all, you can fill it right now.

~ Steve Goodier

The greenest of pastures are right here on earth.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

Happy are those who evolve from within.

~ Amit Abraham

These fucking women really piss me off,' April said. 'Because instead of being elated by the thought of making their own happiness and chasing some crazy dream, all they want to do is narrow their options and do something safe.

~ J. Courtney Sullivan

It was always a relief when she came home to him. Like water or food. Like music or that moment when you cut yourself with a knife and squeeze the skin and no blood oozes out.

~ Francesca Lia Block

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.

~ Edith Wharton

Stop trying to 'fix' yourself, you're NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.

~ Steve Maraboli

He took a hairpin out of my untidy hair (by now my complicated arrangement of ringlets must have looked as if a couple of birds had been nesting there); he took a strand of it and wound it around his finger. With his other hand he began stroking my face, and then he bent down and kissed me again, this time very cautiously. I closed my eyes - and the same thing happened as before: my brain suffered that delicious break in transmission.

~ Kerstin Gier

How would your life be different if...You decided to give freely, love fully, and play feverously? Let today be the day...You free yourself from the conditioned rules that limit your happiness and dilute the beautiful life experience. Have fun. Give - Love - Play!

~ Steve Maraboli

Sometimes you just have to jump in a mud puddle because it's there. Never get so old that you forget about having fun.

~ Tom Giaquinto

Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing.

~ Steve Maraboli

You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!

~ Jennifer O'neill

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

~ Honoré De Balzac

When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.

~ Dorothy Day