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Happiness Quotes


"Every joy is like a piece of mirror: always reflecting.."


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



"It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more."


"Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes."


"America's Declaration of Independence speaks of “the pursuit of happiness,” but nowhere in the Bible are we told to pursue this. Happiness is elusive, and we don't find it by seeking it."


"Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race."


"Happiness is an inner perception, not a reality."


"Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpected downpour and I am just giving myself into it. Because what the fuck else can you do? Run for cover? Shriek and curse? No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it because if you can make yourself happy in the rain, then you're doing pretty alright in life."


"The secret of domestic happiness is to let God, the party of the third part in the marriage contract, have His rightful place in the home. Make peace with Him and then you can be a real peacemaker in the home."


"We do not fail to enjoy the fruit of the Spirit because we live in a sea of corruption, we fail to do so because the sea of corruption is in us."


"Let your infectious smile infect the whole world with love and joy."


"To be happy, find the happiness inside you; there is no better thing that you can do."


"Relaxation is good, holidays are necessary, but there is nothing as rewarding and healthy as doing what you love and loving what you do. Our honest toil should inspire and satisfy us."


"Happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won-some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it-but something to carry doggedly through everything."


"True happiness is a state of being, not one of doing or having."


"After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string."


"One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single point, like a goddess of victory, without fear or giddiness, will never know what happiness is; and, worse still, will never do anything that makes others happy."


"To be happy, you have to risk being unhappy."


"Dance, sing, laugh, and enjoy life - this is the path to enlightenment."


"I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it."


"There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy."


"A smile is on everyone's lips."



"We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up."


"Life is beautiful, so celebrate it like the gift that it is."
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