What Is Happiness Quotes

No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.

Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.

The key to happiness is having dreams; the key to success is making them come true.

Happiness and personal fulfillment are the natural consequences of doing the right thing.

If a woman smiles, her dress must also smile.

Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life.

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.

The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.

Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

Success on the outside indeed begins with success on the inside.

There can be no joy in living without joy in work.

When happiness becomes our standard for judging truth, things that make us happy give us permission to do some things that otherwise would be considered wrong.

When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.

Do not blindly believe what others say. See for yourself what brings contentment, clarity and peace. That is the path for you to follow.

The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.

When you go into the space of nothingness, everything becomes known.

The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results.

Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

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

No matter what you are doing, keep the undercurrent of happiness. Learn to be secretly happy within your heart in spite of all circumstances.

The less one notices happiness, the greater it is.

The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.

We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

Habit is Heaven's own redress: it takes the place of happiness.

I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

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

The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.