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Happiness Quotes


"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember."


"Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything."


"Be generous with your smile and try not to frown.And you will see my children, your smile will never let you down."



"Happiness is something we create ourselves. To our eyes, the sun appears to rise in the east every day to create a brilliant morning for the earth. The sun, however, does not create the morning alone: the earth also creates it actively as it rotates every day. We shouldn't just wait for happiness, either. Happiness doesn't come when we wait for it: we make it ourselves."


"Bleesed is the person whose mind is ever at peace never diprssed never disappointed."


"Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it."


"Your commitment to your happiness and well-being serves our entire world in powerful ways. Stay committed.You change our world for the better by changing your world for the better."


"I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness."


"Thankfulness creates gratitude which generates contentment that causes peace."


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



"Sympathetic joy is a practice. It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along the way, the idea that happiness is a competition, and that someone else is grabbing all the joy."


"But people didn't have to pay as much attention to the awful truth. As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in the city and the gentle holy man in the jungle grew, so, too, did the happiness of the people grow. They were all employed full time as actors in a play they understood, that any human being anywhere could understand and applaud."


"Memory, imagination, and passionately responding in accord with the deeply embedded impulse to act with decency are pliable mechanisms that we can employ to attain happiness."


"Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!"


"To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something."


"I was so happy to be out of there. "Barabas, if you weren't battingfor the other team, I'd marry you.He grinned. "If I weren't batting for the other team, I would accept yourproposal. You had me at 'No comment.' If all my clients were this smart, mylife would be much easier. Much, much easier."


"Happiness is awaiting you every moment of each day for you to embrace. You just make the mistake that you need to achieve 'this' or 'that' or reach something you call 'success' in order to gain it."


"Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution 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."



"Why did you look at the sunset?'Philip answered with his mouth full:Because I was happy."


"One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels."


"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it."



"Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates."


"Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness."


"Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable."


"People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal."


"The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness."


"I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is."


"The more we express thanks, the more gratitude we feel. The more gratitude we feel, the more we express thanks. It's circular, and it leads to a happier life."


"Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied."


"To experience positive/healthy emotions you don't need a big house or a nice car or a managerial job or a million dollar in your bank."



"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 it."
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