Happiness Quotes

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence.

~ Alcibiades

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness... but only when you pay your taxes? That means your freedom is rented, leased, & not unalienable.

~ Steve Maraboli

Here, also, the future was cried aloud by the wind through the rocks, so that all those who heard would shiver, and then the liquid spring song of the thrush would make all the beauty of moonlight and sunlight blend together, making it true, so true, that happiness must come again

~ Elyne Mitchell

A FriendSomeoneYou're happy to see,Who's happy to see you.SomeoneYou like for who they areNot just for what they can do for you.

~ Nancy J. Cavanaugh

Everyone knew as much as they needed to know to be happy.

~ Ian Mcewan

Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The years lay spread out before her, spacious untouched canvases on which she was presently going to paint the picture of her life. It was to be a very beautiful picture, she said to herself with an extraordinary feeling of proud confidence; not beautiful because of any gifts or skill of hers, for never was a woman more giftless, but because of all the untiring little touches, the ceaseless care for detail, the patient painting out of mistakes; and every touch and every detail was going to be aglow with the bright colours of happiness.

~ Elizabeth Von Arnim

Give Happiness, Patience, kindness, and Care, and the PAIN goes away.Then only LOVE remains...

~ Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others. He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt. But on an occasion such as this it was different, for the spirit of convention was being rigorously adhered to, and in between his ribs Mr. Flay experienced twinges of pleasure.

~ Mervyn Peake

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come--as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.

~ Thomas Fuller

She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!

~ Virginia Woolf

We were all born equal, but where we are in life now is of our own making.

~ Stephen Richards

I like how Mother Teresa put it: Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile. If you approach life this way, always looking for ways to build instead of to tear down, you'll be amazed at how much happiness you can give to others and find for yourself

~ Sean Covey

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

~ Charles Dickens

Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

~ Alexandre Dumas

There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something.

~ Steve Maraboli

I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness, but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.

~ Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.

~ Lionel Shriver

If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun and you aren’t jealous of others. You see other people's talent as another branch of your own. You can keep it rooted in joy. Life is long and there are plenty of opportunities to make mistakes. The point of it all is to learn.

~ Ethan Hawke

Happiness is the highest form of self-respect. A person who allows himself to be happy shows his self-respect.

~ Maery Rubin

Envy nobody. It is the true secret of happiness, or at least the only one I know. (By Moonlight)

~ Peter S. Beagle

For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?

~ Joyce Carol Oates

I had decided to stop chasing the money, and start chasing the passion.

~ Tony Hsieh

Get out of your own way… stop the paralysis by analysis… decide what you want, create a simple plan, and get moving!

~ Steve Maraboli

The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself.

~ Benjamin Franklin

And though I was currently living a fairy tale, some part of my soul knew that happiness couldn't last forever. I didn't deserve a happily ever after, and there weren't many other cards to play when that was the truth.

~ Alysha Speer

You can enjoy a deep sense of satisfaction and happiness in life despite challenging circumstances. It's all in how you think about it.

~ Kristi Bowman

Happiness never made anyone rich or famous. That must be why ambitious people avoid it.

~ Marty Rubin

We were so happy.

~ Liane Moriarty

No man should ever completely realize his dreams. What else would there then be to live for?

~ David Gemmell

You know, when you're unhappy you don't have the strength left to take care of others. But it doesn't mean you don't love them.

~ Francesca Marciano

The disempowered mind believes dreams come true, the empowered mind knows you bring your dreams to life.

~ Steve Maraboli

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun;Thyself from thine affectionTakest warmth enough, and from thine eyeAll lesser birds will take their jollity.Up, up, fair bride, and callThy stars from out their several boxes, takeThy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and makeThyself a constellation of them all;And by their blazing signifyThat a great princess falls, but doth not die.Be thou a new star, that to us portendsEnds of much wonder; and be thou those ends.

~ John Donne

Ivan tells Anna: I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.

~ Vasily Grossman

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or once-and-for-all solutions. To garden well is to be happy amid the babble of the objective world, untroubled by its refusal to be reduced by our ideas of it, its indomitable rankness.

~ Michael Pollan

If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...

~ William Shakespeare

...anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation.

~ Gaynor Arnold