What Is Happiness Quotes

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are

You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you.

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

You can't buy happiness

Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

I want him to be happy. And I want you to be happy, too. Even if you can only find that happiness without me.

Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.

You are so intense. Like a storm. It's shocking how intense you are.

Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.

Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy.

You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be.

Tomorrow, smile at a perfect stranger and mean it.

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

Steal moments of happiness if you have to, and then collect them until they are the dominant images in your psyche.

Genuine happiness comes from focusing on the happiness of others.

Why, after all, should readers never be harrowed? Surely there is enough happiness in life without having to go to books for it.

If I had to give a definition of happiness, it would be this: happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn’t have to be validated.

Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything.

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity; it is a state of being, a profound emotional balance struck by a subtle understanding of how the mind functions.

Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.

Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.

Like the man said, can happiness buy money?

The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.

The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.

The happiness of this world is something we cannot keep; it is just like the horizon - the nearer you go, the farther it goes. As soon as you get it, you see it is not the thing you wanted.

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

I'd rather have happiness than money.

Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.

Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.

People who are really happy do not concern themselves with convincing others of the fact.

I do not like the idea of happiness - it is too momentary - I would say that I was always busy and interested in something - interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.

Security is a thumb and a blanket. Happiness is a warm puppy.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

Real happiness is when you marry a girl for love and find out later she has money.

The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy.

Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings.

If more persons would get so enthused over their day's work that some one would have to remind them to go out to lunch there would be more happiness in the world and less indigestion.

Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.

The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points to a straightforward five-word conclusion: Happiness is love. Full stop.

...smile first, then speak.

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor - poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.