What Is Happiness Quotes

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.

But the "wise" person understands something else— that we are all connected and, therefore, his or her own happiness must include the happiness of others.

The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

Happiness is baking cookies. Happiness is giving them away. And serving them, and eating them, talking about them, reading and writing about them, thinking about them, and sharing them with you.

Now run along and play, but don't get into trouble. George promised to be good. But it is easy for little monkeys to forget.

Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its burning is fueled by its own heart.

In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.

Happiness is like the mountain summit. It is sometimes hidden by clouds, but we know it is there.

Happiness is something that comes from our own hearts, not from other people.

Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.

We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts

You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.

Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.

Happiness is realizing that nothing is too important.

Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.

Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness.

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

Only a few things are really important.

I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give'em yours!

Happy people attract other happy people. Show the world your smile, and the world will smile back.

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

Happiness is a state of inner fulfillment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things.

To attain eternal happiness one must suffer. He who has reached the state of self-sacrifice has true joy. Temporal joy will vanish.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

Even a smile can be charity.

We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness.

The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness - not by each other's misery.

Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature.

Remember that one who forgets the language of gratitude can never be on speaking terms with happiness.

Smile, it's easier than explaning why you're sad

Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.

Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.

Remember that being a success without happiness is meaningless.

Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.

Before you can improve your life and find a measure of happiness, you must learn to do one thing every day out of pure love.