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Happiness Quotes
I hope you enjoy this huge collection of happiness quotes. Pick out your favorite happiness quotes or quotes. Soak up these happy quotes and leave with a smile on your face. Happiness Quotes Index Buy This at Allposters.com About HappinessThere is no way to happiness - happiness is the way. Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory. But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. Happiness is a habit, cultivate it. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes BeautifulHappiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes Benefits of HappinessThere is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. A light heart lives long. All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes CuteIf you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1. Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes Good AdviceSome pursue happiness, others create it. Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. Be happy. It's one way of being wise. Whatever you put aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it. Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress. The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day. It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness. When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy. Never lose your happiness. Problems will come and go, problems are an external situation which have come from others, and they will come and go. Happiness is your own property and you always keep something that belongs to you. The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes Happiness is a ChoiceHappiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you. Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind. Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. No man is happy who does not think himself so. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes Happiness is…Here is some good food for thought. It is the simple things in life that brings us joy. Review this lists and start appreciating the simple good things in your life so you can be happy more often! Happiness is…
Return to Index of Happiness Quotes Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Happiness is the natural flower of duty. Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. Happiness is the feeling you're feeling when you want to keep feeling it. Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. Happiness is a direction, not a place. Happiness is a form of courage. Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. Happiness is making a bouquet of those flowers within reach. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes How to be HappyThe best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. If you want to be happy, be. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it. The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life. Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will. I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them. Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life. The surest way to happiness is to lose yourself in a cause greater than yourself. Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness. The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes HumorousWhat I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise. Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. This is my "depressed stance." When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes Insightful
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. Much happiness is overlooked because it doesn't cost anything. To be busy is man's only happiness. Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves. If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack. There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now. We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day. You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time. Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly. You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution. Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it. Happiness depends upon ourselves. Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination; --happiness; but few are going by the same road. Better to be happy than wise. All happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy. All misery comes from the desire for oneself to be happy. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes InspirationalHappiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. A happy thought is like a seed that sows positivity for all to reap. Every now and then, Return to Index of Happiness Quotes IronyThe search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. Happiness is... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes JoySometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. Joy is not in things; it is in us. One filled with joy preaches without preaching. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Joy is a flower that blooms when you do. Jumping for joy is good exercise. Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes Loss of HappinessSo long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes Necessity of SufferingIn order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy? All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes Obstacles to HappinessA great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes OptimistI have only two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy. I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes ProfoundIf you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes ProverbsCheerfulness is the very flower of health. One joy scatters a hundred griefs. Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes Pursuit of HappinessThe search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places. As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes Secret to HappinessThe secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness. What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do. The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest. Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes True HappinessA truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes UnhappinessUnhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. Misery is almost always the result of thinking. Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. Return to Index of Happiness Quotes When You’re Happy…When you're really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights - and flowers will bloom on a barren land. People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. 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