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Happiness Quotes

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your

loyalty to the achievement of your values.

— Ayn Rand

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

— Mark Twain

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future;

it is something you design for the present.

— Jim Rohn

all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

- Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle,

and the life of the candle will not be shortened.

Happiness never decreases by being shared.

- Buddha

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

- Thomas Jefferson

No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.
- Glenn Beck

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself - Alice Walker

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
- Henri Matisse

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.
- Thor Heyerdahl

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
- Charles de Montesquieu

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
- Malcolm Forbes

The most worth-while thing is to try to put

happiness into the lives of others.

- Robert Baden-Powell

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part,

makes men petty and vindictive.

- W. Somerset Maugham

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
- Horace

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
- Henry Van Dyke

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open
- John Barrymore

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action
Madame de Stael

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness
- Joseph Addison

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go
- Oscar Wilde

In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself
- Anonymous

Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more

importance than a shadow following a man.

- Muhammad Ali

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind
Thomas Jefferson

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

- E.L. Konigsburg

By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench

our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves

into exile from our own lives.

- Sharon Salzberg

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under

the pretense of taking care of them.

- Thomas Jefferson

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- Thomas Jefferson

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
- Benjamin Franklin

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness.

You have to catch it yourself.

- Benjamin Franklin

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
- Mark Twain

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
- Dalai Lama

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
- Benjamin Franklin

Money has never made man happy, nor will it,

there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.

The more of it one has the more one wants.

- Benjamin Franklin

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
- William Shakespeare

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Dalai Lama

Happiness is when what you think, what you say,

and what you do are in harmony.

- Mahatma Gandhi

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

- Thomas Jefferson

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.

- Albert Camus

If you want happiness for an hour ? take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day ? go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year ? inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime ? help someone else
- Chinese Proverb

Happiness is liberty from everything that makes us unhappy
- Vernon Howard

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you
- Hafiz of Persia

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment
- Mohandas Gandhi

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it
- Jacques Prévert

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore,

you have the power to change anything about yourself

or your life that you want to change.

- Barbara de Angelis

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness

through another man's eyes

- William Shakespeare

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him
- Buddha

Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health
- Julia Child

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad
- Norm Papernick

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come
- Dalai Lama

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys.If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness
- Leo Tolstoy

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives

- C. S. Lewis

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;

t he wise grows it under his feet

- James Openheim

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes,

but in liking what one does.

- James M. Barrie

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy

- Mark Twain

If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It’s very important to be aware of them every time they come up.

— Deepak Chopra

If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge.

– Deepak Chopra

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply,

to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

— Storm Jameson

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

— Brian Tracy

Happiness is a state of activity.

– Aristotle

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready

to pay the price to make them come true.

– Leon J. Suenes

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

— Thich Nhat Hanh

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

— Mark Twain

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance,

the wise grows it under his feet.

— James Oppenheim

The healthiest response to life is joy.

— Deepak Chopra

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men,

has adopted the very best plan for living happily.

– Plato

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do,

but in liking what one has to do.

– Anonymous

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

— Mark Twain

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing

it than to consume wealth without producing it.

— George Bernard Shaw

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things, not the great occasions that in retrospect

give off the greatest glow of happiness.

— Bob Hope