Happiness Quotes

It is an unnecessary burden to make negative judgmental assumptions about others. We are all on a journey.

~ Steve Maraboli

You were born to journey in the direction of your purpose. Anything that halts your progress is contrary to your design.

~ Steve Maraboli

We should learn to smile as we fall, So much so as when we have it all.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities; there can only be submissive wearing of the cords that others have tied round our hands.

~ Auberon Herbert

Happiness is a conscious choice we make for ourselves. It has to come from within.

~ Beau Sides

How to be happy starts with self love, being proud of who you are and making happiness a daily choice.

~ Robert Moment

Contentment is a state of happiness and satisfaction. The choices we make are our own decisions for how we want to live our life.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is, it is anticipating how it will be perceived.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don't like yourself, you'll never be truly happy.

~ Taylor Swift

Life is a treasure-chest of opportunities, choices, and time. Unfortunately, the choice many people make is to argue about the details of the chest instead of seizing the treasure within it.

~ Steve Maraboli

Choose to do more than just exist, choose to live.

~ Steve Maraboli

Today is the day to stop, look around, realize where you are in relation to where you want to be, change direction if needed and move forward with faith in God and in yourself.

~ Toni Sorenson

Happiness is the province of those who ask few questions.

~ Christopher Buehlman

Depend upon it you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better; we find comfort somewhere- and those evil-minded observers, dearest Mary, who make much of a little, are more taken in and deceived than the parties themselves.

~ Jane Austen

When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the uncared block: life is fun.

~ Benjamin Hoff

we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.

~ Paulo Coelho

Joy, like love, is an impenetrable, God-given state of being. The distinctions between joy and happiness and love and affection are important ones under the notion that happiness is an 'iffy' emotion, a highly dependent feeling both aroused and destroyed by external conditions apart from God. And the distinction between love and affection is parallel to such.

~ Criss Jami

Don’t get shitty when I treat you as you are, a casual acquaintance

~ Genereux Philip

Life is full of hurts, and it always will be. As long as you live, people are going to offend you, hurt you, and disappoint you.But you needn't let their actions control your response and out-look on life. You can learn to rise above life's disappointments.

~ Prince Akwarandu

To be happy, you must let go of all the negative beliefs, emotions and people that are holding you back in life.

~ Robert Tew

Contention with all its variations is one of the most destructive forces in home and society. Lying and stealing are only extensions of basic problems in the home environment. Some psychologists of the day would label such malfunctions as 'normal.' 'Ignore it,'they say. 'It's a normal stage which children will outgrow.'The fact is that quarreling, lying, and stealing are not necessary or normal to proper growth and development and are as much a menace to society as to the home and the individuals. Almost all children have some of these feelings in their makeup. Nut learning to control feelings rather than letting the feelings control the person is the secret to happiness.

~ Clyde F. Boyle

When consent takes the form of seeking to possess the things we wish, this is called desire. When consent takes the form of enjoying the things we wish, this is called joy.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

What happens outside you, and what happens inside you - happens in two entirely different worlds. You can take charge of only one of these worlds.

~ Manoj Arora

I became aware of just how fleeting the sense of happiness was, and how flimsy its basis: a warm restaurant after having come in from the rain, the smell of food and wine, interesting conversation, daylight falling weakly on the polished cherrywood of the tables. It took so little to move the mood from one level to another, as one might push pieces on a chessboard. Even to be aware of this, in the midst of a happy moment, was to push one of those pieces, and to become slightly less happy.

~ Teju Cole

Well-being is not the goal, it is the starting point. this is yet another realization that could change everything dramatically. it might be a concept you'd like to remind yourself of every now and then.

~ Frederick Dodson

To experience positive/healthy emotions you don’t need a big house or a nice car or a managerial job or a million dollar in your bank.

~ Maddy Malhotra

. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other's throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a scruple and even as a duty, the greatest crimes, and shed torrents of blood . . . Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under divers names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty. We find, in all the religions, 'a God of armies,' a 'jealous God,' an 'avenging God,' a 'destroying God,' a 'God,' who is pleased with carnage, and whom his worshippers consider it a duty to serve. Lambs, bulls, children, men, and women, are sacrificed to him. Zealous servants of this barbarous God think themselves obliged even to offer up themselves as a sacrifice to him. Madmen may everywhere be seen, who, after meditating upon their terrible God, imagine that to please him they must inflict on themselves, the most exquisite torments. The gloomy ideas formed of the deity, far from consoling them, have every where disquieted their minds, and prejudiced follies destructive to happiness.

~ Paul Henri Thiry D'holbach

I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife. You could say that I'm resigned to the fact that this wonderful life that we get here is it. And having hit 60, it's a good time to get resigned to these things and not be too nervous or upset - and enjoy what great times one can have.

~ David Gilmour

It is impossible to say why people put so little value on complete happiness.

~ William Maxwell

Happiness has no book value, but life has no value if there is no happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various individuals’, or groups of individuals’, experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their 'pursuit of happiness' to outright obliterating it.

~ Aberjhani

But I see nothing miraculous about it. Nothing makes one as healthy as happiness, and there is no greater happiness than making someone else happy.

~ Stefan Zweig

Animals are a lot like humans for when we are happy our immunity is strong and love and life force races through our veins. When we are depressed our immunity runs low and we can easily get sick. Many pet parents are very careful about feeding the right food, providing plenty of exercise and buying the right toys and treats. Not that those things aren’t important too, for they are, but the best thing you can do for us is to make yourself happy because when you are happy then we are happy too.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Be good to yourself. If you don't take care of your body, where will you live?

~ Kobi Yamada

Be healthy, hearty and happy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be healthy and happy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Great grace is the power of great thanks.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In general, nine-tenths of our happiness depends on our health alone.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

As a general rule, nine tenths of happiness may be said to rest on the state of health; when this is perfect, anything and everything may be a source of pleasure; in illness, on the other hand, nothing, no matter what its nature may be, is capable of affording any real enjoyment.

~ Edgar Saltus

I've decided to be happy because it's good for my health.

~ Voltaire