Quotes about happiness

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

— Socrates

Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

— Boris Sokoloff

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

— Solon

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

— Solon

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

— Palmer Sondreal

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

— Herbert Spencer

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

— Freya Stark

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

— Ben Stein

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

— Henri B. Stendhal

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

— John Stossel

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

— J. August Strindberg

Happiness is a journey not a destination.

— Ben Sweetland

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

— Anne Sophie Swetchine

Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

— Jonathan Swift

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

— Thomas Szasz

Be open to your happiness and sadness as they arise.

— John M. Thomas

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

— Henry David Thoreau

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

— Henry David Thoreau

The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage.

— Thucydides

Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.

— John Tillotson

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

— A. W. Tozer

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

— Thomas Traherne

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.

— Thomas Traherne

Happiness ain't a thing in itself --it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

— Mark Twain

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

— Mark Twain

The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.

— Source Unknown

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

— Source Unknown

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.

— Source Unknown

Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.

— Source Unknown

If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.

— Source Unknown

If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness

— Source Unknown

It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

— Source Unknown

Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind and active habits, I place early rising as a means of health and happiness.

— Source Unknown

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

— Source Unknown

The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

— Source Unknown

Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.

— Source Unknown

Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

— Source Unknown

After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.

— Source Unknown

Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

— Source Unknown

Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

— Source Unknown

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

— Source Unknown

Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.

— Source Unknown

Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.

— Veda Upanishads

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

— Denis Waitley

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

— Denis Waitley

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

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

— Sir Hugh Walpole

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

— J. Donald Walters

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

— J. Donald Walters

Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing.

— Lilian Eichler Watson

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

— Edith Wharton

When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.

— Oscar Wilde

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

— Oscar Wilde

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.

— Beran W Wolfe

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

— William Butler Yeats

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

— William Butler Yeats

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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.

— Margaret Young

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself

— James Van Der Zee

Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.

— Zig Ziglar

People who never achieve happiness are the ones who complain whenever they're awake, and whenever they're asleep, they are thinking about what to complain about tomorrow.

— Adam Zimbler

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

— Samuel Beckett

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

— Edward De Bono

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

— Dorothea Brande

Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

— Thomas Carlyle

Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's yes, all's well. That is enough.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.

— Graham Greene

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.

— Don Herold

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping mood, no matter by what outward ills it may have been engendered? What is more injurious to others? What less helpful as a way out of the difficulty? It but fastens and perpetuates the trouble which occasioned it, and increases the total evil of the situation. At all costs, then, we ought to reduce the sway of that mood; we ought to scout it in ourselves and others, and never show it tolerance.

— William James

The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.

— Samuel Johnson

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

— Don Knuth

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

— Jean De La Bruyere

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

— Abraham H. Maslow

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

— George Santayana

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

— George Bernard Shaw

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

— Simone Weil

The key to happiness is good health and a bad memory

— Ingrid Bergman

sometimes happiness is hard to find

— Source Unknown

Full happiness comes from fully happy relationships. Anyone who denies this simply has not fully drunk from the infinite well of love.

— Oshana Dave

Blaming another person for your unhappiness is like blaming them for your high cholesterol. Either one will eventually kill you.

— anomynous

There is a simple and direct way to happiness. Complicated methods are simply wrong

— Oshana Dave

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

— Dalai Lama

Blessed is who has done nothing to regret.

— Tadj Abelkader

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.~ James Oppenheim

— James Oppenheim

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

— Mary Wolestoncraft

Being too suspicious of your happiness will inevitably lead you back to a space where there is none. There is an element of mystery to every happiness.

— A. Brandon Trean

The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal>

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy.

— Alan Lightman

True happiness is sharing of hearts.

— Mak Kazeronnie

Happiness simply is someone who truly remains beside you whether you succeed or fail.

— Mak Kazeronnie

Fortune is where the love is.

— Mak Kazeronnie

Food is for taste. Happiness is taste of life.

— Mak Kazeronnie

Only the misfortune understands what fortune is, and knows how to treasure it.

— Mak Kazeronnie

Enjoy the good health. Bring the truth happiness. Care of his own family. Give the peace to all. Firstly, one must discipline and control his own mind. If he can do so, the enlightenment, wisdom and virtue will go to him naturally.

— Buddha

Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.

— Buddha

Conditional happiness brings more unhappiness.

— Source Unknown

Smile, you'll find a reason later.

— agache adrian