Happiness Quotes

One thing I have come to realize is that love is not always happiness.

~ Jerhia

In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

~ Thomas Paine

If you behave in a manner that poisons your relationship, don’t be surprised when it dies.

~ Steve Maraboli

There is no higher happiness than peace.

~ Jack Kornfield

Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were trembling for the health of one who is dear to you, today you fear for your own; tomorrow it will be an anxiety about money, the next day the slanders of a calumniator, the day after the misfortune of a friend; then the weather, then something broken or lost, then a pleasure for which you are reproached by your conscience or your vertebral column; another time, the course of public affairs. Not to mention heartaches. And so on. One cloud is dissipated, another gathers. Hardly one day in a hundred of unbroken joy and sunshine. And you are of that small number who are lucky! As for other men, stagnant night is upon them.

~ Victor Hugo

If you want more joy in your daily life, smile at the people you meet in the street, the woman sitting beside you on the bus or standing next to you in the queue at the airport, the waiter who brings your food, your colleagues or your employer. There’s a great chance they’ll smile back.

~ Thorbjörg Hafsteinsdottir

And me, standing under the splintered night, catching fractured glimpses into the black behind the black, hearing the prayers of stars, the angry whispers of the dark summer night.Its voice cracks,on your name.My eyes close,on your name.

~ Marlen Komar

We can learn to act and think in ways that sow seeds of our future well-being, gradually becoming more aware of what causes happiness as well as what causes distress.

~ Pema Chödrön

You know what I love? The spaces between I love you. The tap of your fork against the plate and how my cup of wine clicks against our table. The scratchy voice coming from the radio in the other room. The quiet sound of your hand reaching across the table and whispering over mine. How your voice sounds like your mouth on the back of my neck. The soft murmur of our easy conversation.Between these quiet Tuesday night routines, following every comma and right after every pause for breath, is I, love, and you. In the middle of every I love you is a sink full of dishes, whisper of socked feet tangled in white sheets, and gentle kisses against curved cheeks. We lyric ourselves into the laundry that needs to be finished, into the ends of every smile that follows me repeating your name. We write ourselves into the grocery bags we need to carry, the cracks running up our rented walls, the sides of the bed we choose to drag up the sails of heavy eyed dreams.Like the spaces between our fingers, in the spaces between I, love, and you, we wait.The in-betweens have always been my favorite.

~ Marlen Komar

Everything that God sends us is beautiful, even though we may not understand it - and we only need to give it some proper thought to see that what God gives is just sheer happiness; the suffering is what we add to it.

~ Adalbert Stifter

You solely owe success and happiness to yourself. So why not make your inner-self proud of your daily decisions and actions?

~ Hafiz

Wearing fake happiness is as good as smearing foundation. A bit of moisture drains it all.

~ Aniruddha Sastikar

When your sense of self and happiness comes from within and isn't a roller coaster ride dependent on others or circumstances, you approach life differently. You make better choices. You draw to you the people and situations that matter. The others, they fall away.

~ Kamal Ravikant

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness and the happiness of others.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I must be happy, he said, it is less pleasant than I should have thought.

~ Samuel Beckett

Yes: I exist inside my body.I’m not carrying the sun and the moon in my pocket.I don’t want to conquer worlds because I slept badly,And I don’t want to eat the world for breakfast because I have a stomach.Indifferent?No: a son of the earth, who, if he jumps, it’s wrong,A moment in the air that’s not for us,And only happy when his feet hit the ground again,Pow! In reality where nothing’s missing!(6/20/1919)

~ Alberto Caeiro

You have to appreciate where you have come from to know who you are in the present and whom you would like to be in the future.

~ Truth Devour

Hope is a dream of which we long to have. Don't let anyone ever tell you that you can't hope for something because hope brings joy and joy brings happiness and its all tied up in a big ball of love.

~ Peace Gypsy

The happiest people don’t bother about whether life is unfair. They just concentrate on what they have.

~ Andrew Matthews

The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present.

~ Steve Maraboli

Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son… these aren’t tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always. Without fail.

~ Dan Pearce

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

~ Dale Carnegie

We all need something that takes us out of day to day and reminds us that it's all ok.

~ Ian Tucker

When you are stressed on mind...to pour it out, is the behaviour, most kind!

~ Sujit Lalwani

The joy from eating does not come from the exclusivity of the food, but instead from the sensitivity that we eat it with.

~ Nino Gruettke

The sage is sick of being sick (Tao Te Ching)

~ Robert Baohm

It’s that short-lived happiness, which empowers us to bear; long-lasting pain in living.

~ Aniruddha Sastikar

Eve was happy for her bestie. She just wished she had a guy who would look at her the way Seth looked at her friend, eyes all starry.No, that wasn't it. Or it wasn't completely it. Eve knew there were guys at school who liked her and would give her the Seth-look if she gave them the opportunity. But she didn't want the look from any of those guys. She wanted the look she could give the look back to. She wanted to find a guy she could all-out love who would all-out love her back.

~ Amy Meredith

Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the impression she had made on him gave him happiness and pride.

~ Leo Tolstoy

No child should ever be too sad to play.

~ Andrew Galasetti

...look with-in (Jesus)

~ Robert Baohm

I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What do the circumstances of life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount of time and space?

~ W. Somerset Maugham

The truth will set you free (The Bible)

~ Robert Baohm

Pero me sobran motivos para ser feliz. Sobre todo cuando estoy en los brazos de mis tres misses. Son tres gentiles damas a las que se llega cuando las cosas adquieren una claridad inusitada: Miss Antropía, Miss Oginia y Miss Eria; pero no las comparto, como hago con el resto de mis mujeres.

~ Eusebio Ruvalcaba

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.

~ Edith Wharton

The law of sacrifice postulates that we need to give in order to receive ... Cosmic Ordering says, receive before you give.

~ Stephen Richards

I am wealth, I am abundance, I am Cosmic Ordering.

~ Stephen Richards

Cosmic Ordering does not judge you.

~ Stephen Richards

Good thoughts can become reality with Cosmic Ordering.

~ Stephen Richards