Quotes about Happiness - Let them inspire you

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One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats. ~Iris Murdoch

Definition of happiness: The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. ~John F. Kennedy

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. ~Storm Jameson

Happiness doesn’t depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel towards what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. ~W. D. Hoard

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ~Douglas Jerrold

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. ~Ermest Hemingway

Happiness is a man’s greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside. ~Erich Fromm

Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, my alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. ~Bernard Melzer

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. ~Burton Hills

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open. ~Rose Lane

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull. ~H. L. Mencken

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. ~Robert Frost

Happiness, in this world, if it comes at all, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild goose chase, and it is never attained. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

How would you know what happy is if you've never been otherwise. ~Malcolm S. Forbes

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. ~John Stuart Mill

If you find some happiness inside yourself, you'll start findin' it in lot of other places too. ~Gladiola Montana

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness. ~Thomas Jefferson

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~Abraham Lincoln

Natural joy brings no headaches and no heartaches. ~Elbert Green Hubbard

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy. ~Thomas Fuller

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. ~Cythina Nelms

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get. ~Bernard Meltzer

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. ~Orison Swett Marden

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. ~Francis Hutcheson

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past. ~André Maurois

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. ~Victor Marie Hugo

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so. ~Dr. David Ralph Inge

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ~Eric Hoffer

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. ~Doug Larson

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. ~Gustave Flaubert

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out — you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand. ~Henry James Jr.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves. ~Francois, Du de La Rochefoucauld

Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop. ~Gittel Hudnick

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. ~Hugh Downs

A whole new kind of spiritual happiness dawns in us as we realize that dark clouds do not ruin sunny skies... they merely pass through them to help us remember our love of the light. ~Guy Finley

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ~Benjamin Disraeli

All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within. ~Horace Friess

An endurance test for some people is the pursuit of happiness. ~Anonymous

Be helpful. when you see a person without a smile; give him yours. ~Zig Ziglar

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs. ~Josh Billings

Follow your bliss. ~Joseph Campbell

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. ~Pearl S. Buck

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient. ~Aristotle

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. ~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. ~Denis Waitley

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves. ~Helen Keller

Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing. ~Brian Tracy

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others. ~Buddha

Happiness depends upon ourselves. ~Aristotle

Happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. ~William Cowper

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. ~Mildred Barthel

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is a state of activity. ~Aristotle

Happiness is a stock that doubles in a year. ~Ira U. Cobleigh

Happiness is a Swedish sunset - it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it. ~Mark Twain

Happiness is a warm puppy ~Charles M. Schulz

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. ~George Burns

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