My Top 10 Favourite Happiness Quotes to Inspire You
Here are my top 10 favourite happiness quotes and many more. Enjoy and let them inspire you!
1. It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. – Agnes Repplier
2. “Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” ~ Francesca Reigler, artist
3. 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. - Helen Keller
4. Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer
5. Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. – Benjamin Disraeli
6. The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. – James Oppenheim
7. Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Norman Mac Ewan
8. People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within. – Ramona L. Anderson
9. 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. ~Margaret Young
10. When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
- Samuel Goldwyn
And other great quotes about happiness:
It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. — Dale Carnegie
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. — Harold Whitman
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. ~Freya Stark, The Journey’s Echo
It’s not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness. – Unknown
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open. – John Barrymore
Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. ~Cynthia Nelms
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. ~H. Jackson Browne
The happiest people don’t have the best of it. They make the best of everything.
Happiness is a way of travel, not a destination. Roy Goodman
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. ~Charles Kingsley
People are as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln
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. – Brother David Steindl-Rast
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. – Denis Waitley
The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure – Francoise de Motteville
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. – George Sand
The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy. -H.H. The Dalai Lama
Consider the following. We humans are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others’ actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others’ activities. For this reason it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others. – H.H. The Dalai Lama
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. – H.H. The Dalai Lama
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. – H.H. The Dalai Lama
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. – Helen Keller
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves. – James M. Barrie
The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. – Pearl S. Buck
If you want to be happy, be. ~Leo Tolstoy
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy. ~Robert Anthony
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. ~Charlie Brown
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~Abraham Lincoln
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. ~Frederick Keonig
Happiness is a direction, not a place. ~Sydney J. Harris
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. ~Walter Savage Landor
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. ~Booth Tarkington
You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. ~Author Unknown
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. ~Freya Stark, The Journey’s Echo
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault, robertbrault.com
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956
Some pursue happiness, others create it. ~Author Unknown
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. ~Epictetus
You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you’ll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance. ~Lavetta Sue Wegman
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it. ~William Feather
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. ~Mildred Barthel
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck
Aristotle
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth… Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. – John Templeton
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go. – Martha Washington
Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have. – Anon
Happiness is enhanced by others but does not depend upon others. – Anon
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. – Anon
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. – Oscar Wilde
Change your thoughts and you change your world. – William James
Happiness is a habit—cultivate it. – Elbert Hubbard
Worry doesn’t help tomorrow’s troubles, but it does ruin today’s happiness.
- Unknown
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
“Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.” ~ Wayne Dyer
“We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have–and not worrying about what we don’t have.” ~ Ken Keyes, Jr.
Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections. –Unknown
Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned. — Boris Sokoloff
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy . . . is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
And finally:
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mistery. And today ? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present. B. Olatunji
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