Happiness Quotes

16. A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

^{Albert Einstein}

17. True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

^{Lucius Annaeus Seneca}

18. Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

^{Guillaume Apollinaire}

19. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

^{Thomas Merton}

20. The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

^{Benjamin Franklin}

21. To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

^{Gustave Flaubert}

22. Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

^{Benjamin Disraeli}

23. Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

^{Mother Teresa}

24. Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable.

^{Clare Boothe Luce}

25. True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

^{Antoine de Saint-Exupery}

26. Happiness is a direction, not a place.

^{Sydney J. Harris}

27. Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.

^{John Barrymore}

28. The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

^{Henry Ward Beecher}

29. Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

^Sophocles

30. The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

^{Ashley Montagu}

31. All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

^{Lord Byron}

32. Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember.

^{Oscar Levant}

33. Happiness is an inside job.

^{William Arthur Ward}

34. Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

^{Bernard Meltzer}

35. Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

^{Eleanor Roosevelt}

36. You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.

^{Julia Roberts}

37. The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

^{Robert Baden-Powell}

38. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

^{Robert Frost}

39. Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

^Zhuangzi

40. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

^{Ernest Hemingway}

41. Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

^{David Lee Roth}

42. The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

^{Carl Sandburg}

43. Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

^{Alice Walker}

44. Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.

^{William E. Gladstone}

45. It’s enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

^{Adrian Grenier}

46. True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

^{Ben Jonson}

47. The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

^{Johann Wolfgang von Goethe}

48. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

^{Alexandre Dumas}

49. Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

^{Napoleon Hill}

50. Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

^{Henry Van Dyke}

51. An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

^{Lydia M. Child}

52. A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away.

^{Bil Keane}

53. Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

^{Bertolt Brecht}

54. Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

^{Jose Marti}

55. The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

^{Andre Maurois}

56. Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. – Happiness Quotes

^{Ogden Nash}

57. Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

^{Peter Drucker}

58. Happiness is good health and a bad memory. – Happiness Quotes

^{Ingrid Bergman}

59. The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

^{Alfred Lord Tennyson}

60. Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye. – Happiness Quotes

^{Austin O’Malley}

61. Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.

^{Deepak Chopra}

62. Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

^Ovid

63. Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions. – Happiness Quotes

^{Saul Bellow}

64. One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

^{Rita Mae Brown}