Happiness Quotes

The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.

When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.

Whenever we practise meditation, whether or not our meditation is clear, we are performing a virtuous mental action that is a cause of our future happiness and peace of mind.

Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy.

I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

The Secret of Happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

The only way to happiness is never to give happiness a thought.

To be constant is to be useful. To be useful is to realize one's true nature. Realization of one's true nature is happiness. When one reaches happiness, one is close to perfection.

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

It is not necessary to smile and make a wonderful impression on the judges.

God has made all men to be happy.

Money will not buy happiness, but it will let you be unhappy in nice places.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.

Happiness is a decision.

If you are doing things in order to be happy... you're doing them in the wrong order.

The secret of happiness is simply this... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger.

Happiness is a road traveled, not a destination.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

When one loves, one does not calculate.

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping.

Every house guest brings you happiness. Some when they arrive, and some when they are leaving

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness.'

Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life, but what we do about what happens to us.

I’m trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am. But why do people have to call my happiness a failure?

One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential

the smile you give is the smile you get back.

Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.

Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.

Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.

[on buying a private island] Money doesn't buy you happiness, but it buys you a big enough yacht to sail right up to it.