Quotes on Happiness are everywhere. Finding them was simple. Writing them out for this page was not. I hope everyone can bear with me, because this will be one LONG page. Happiness and Joy were the keywords for my search on quotations, and in many quotes they go hand in hand.
"Most people
are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln
"The supreme
happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."
Victor Hugo
"Wheresoever
you go, go with all your heart."
Confucious
"Happiness
is not having what you want. It's wanting what you have."
Unknown
"Some cause happiness
wherever they go; others whenever they go."
Oscar Wilde
"When one door
of happiness closes, another opens;
but often we
look so long at the closed door that we do not see
the one which
has opened for us."
Helen Keller
"Most people
would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being
happy."
Robert Anthony
"The grand essentials
of happiness are: something to do, something to
love, and something
to hope for."
Allan K. Chalmers
"Action may not
always bring happiness;
but there is
no happiness without action."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Happiness is
not a destination. It is a method of life."
Burton Hills
"Nobody really
cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be
happy."
Cynthia Nelms
"Be happy while
you're living, for you're a long time dead."
Scottish Proverb
"The joy that
isn't shared dies young."
Anne Sexton
"No man is happy
who does not think himself so."
Marcus Aurelius
"Happiness sneaks
through a door you didn't know you left open."
John Barrymore
"What is given
by the gods more desirable than a happy hour?"
Catullus
"Happiness makes
up in height for what it lacks in length."
Robert Frost
"Often the greatest
enemy of present happiness is past happiness too
well remembered."
Oscar Hammling
"A joy that's
shared is a joy made double."
John Ray
"Yesterday is
but a dream, and tomorrow only a vision, but today well
lived makes
every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a
vision of hope..."
Kalidasa
"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 that they
will be happier.
The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be
who you really
are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what
you want."
Margaret Young
"It may be that
true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost
happiness. Then
we can begin to move through life without hope or fear, capable of
finally enjoying
all the small pleasures, which are the most lasting."
Maria Luisa-Bombal
"Fate often puts
all the material of happiness into a man's hands just to see how
miserable he
can make himself with them."
Don Marquis
"We act as though
comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that
we need to make
us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
John Mason Brown
"Happiness is
a conscious choice, not an automatic response."
Mildred Barthel.
"Happiness is
like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will
never come. But if you
pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing
against your legs and
jumping into your lap."
William Bennett
"What is the
worth of anything,
But for the
happiness 'twill bring?"
Richard Owen
Cambridge.
"If you want
happiness for an hour -- take a nap.
If you want
happiness for a day -- go fishing.
If you want
happiness for a month -- get married.
If you want
happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune.
If you want
happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else."
Chinese proverb
"The joyfulness
of a man prolongeth his days."
The Bible: Ecclesiasticus.
XXX. 22
"Happiness grows
at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens."
Douglas Jerrold.
"Many persons
have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained
through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
Helen Keller
"We are never
so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be."
La Rochefoucauld.
"Experience praises
the most happy the one who made the most people happy."
Karl Marx
"Success is getting
and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with
what you get."
Bernard Meltzer
"Act happy, feel
happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and
do what you will."
Dan Millman
"I have learned
to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting
to satisfy them."
John Stuart
Mill.
"Until you make
peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."
Doris Mortman
"Happiness is
a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy."
Gretta Brooker
Palmer.
"It is not easy
to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
Agnes Repplier.
"The good life,
as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you
will be
happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good."
Bertrand Russell
"No joy can equal
the joy of serving others."
Sai Baba
"I don't know
what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among
you who will
be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve."
Albert Schweitzer
"I wish you all
the joy that you can wish."
William Shakespeare
(Merchant of Venice).
"Noble deeds
and hot baths are the best cures for depression."
Dodie Smith
"Grief can take
care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody
to divide it with."
Mark Twain.
"If only we
wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other
people, which
is difficult, since we think them happier than they are."
Monesquieu
"The happy man
is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself."
Publilius Syrus
"If all our happiness
is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not
to demand of life more than it has to give."
Bertrand Russell
"Man needs, for
his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise
and change."
Bertrand Russell
"A string of
excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness
resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's
life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will,
and is gladly accepted."
George Santayana
"The greater
part of happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances."
Martha Washington
"Different men
seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make
for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."
Aristotle
"Happiness depends
upon ourselves."
Aristotle
"We all live
with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet
the same."
Anne Frank
"The purpose
of our lives is to be happy."
The 14th Dalai
Lama
"True happiness,
we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not
only to get out you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing
errand."
Henry James
"The highest
happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to
revere what is unknowable."
Goethe
"You are forgiven
for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to
share them."
Albert Camus
"Happiness, that
grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through
all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route."
Charles Caleb
Colton
"No man can be
happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy."
Thomas Fuller
"It is better
to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long
time and be bored all the while."
Don Marquis
"Even if happiness
forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it."
Jacques Prevert
"Let us be grateful
to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our
souls blossom."
Marcel
Proust
"Happiness walks
on busy feet."
Kittie Turmell
"Happiness is
nothing more than health and a poor memory."
Albert Schweitze
"The secret of
happiness is this: let your interests be wide as possible,
and let your
reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as
far as possible
friendly rather than hostile."
Bertrand Russell
"It is neither
wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which
give happiness."
Thomas Jefferson
"Happy the man,
and happy he alone,
He who can call
today his own;
He who secure
within can say:
Tomorrow do
thy worst, for I have lived today."
Horace
"Happiness is
essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly,
one-directionally,
without regret or reservation."
William H. Sheldon
"The more refined
one is, the more unhappy."
Anton Chekhov
"Happiness in
intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
Ernest Hemingway
"Happiness is
having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
George Burns
"To fill the
hour—that is happiness."
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
