“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” – Carrie Jones
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” – George Sand
“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.” – Freya Stark
“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 year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.” – Chinese Proverb
“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” – Buddha
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley
“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.” – Dale Carnegie
“Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.” – Alain De Botton
“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.” – Douglas Jerrold
“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”– Eric Hoffer
“The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” – William Morris
“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.” – William Saroyan
“People should find happiness in the little things, like family.” – Amanda Bynes
“As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.” – Andrew Delbanco
“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.” – Baruch Spinoza
“Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.” – Immanuel Kant
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” – Bertrand Russell
“There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human—in not having to be just happy or just sad—in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.” – C. JoyBell C.
“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.” – Carl Jung
“There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.” – Charlotte Bronte
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” – Chuck Palahniuk
“Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.” – Cynthia Nelms
“People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat – that’s the only moral they know.” – Dany Laferrière
“We can’t control the world. We can only (barely) control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement.” – David C. Hill
“Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends.” – Divyanka Tripathi
“Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.” – Don Marquis
“The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.” – Doug Larson
“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.” – E.L. Konigsburg
“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” – Earl Nightingale
“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.” – Edith Wharton
“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.” – Epictetus
“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”– Eric Hoffer
“My family didn’t have a lot of money, and I’m grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.” – Evangeline Lilly
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” – Frederick Keonig
“Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends.” – Divyanka Tripathi
“Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.” – Don Marquis
“The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.” – Doug Larson
“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.” – E.L. Konigsburg
“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” – Earl Nightingale
“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.” – Edith Wharton
“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.” – Epictetus
“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”– Eric Hoffer
“My family didn’t have a lot of money, and I’m grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.” – Evangeline Lilly
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” – Frederick Keonig
“Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns
“How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now.” – Gerald Jampolsky
“Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.”– Gretta Brooker Palmer
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” – Joseph Addison
“The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.” – Joseph Roux
“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” – L.M. Montgomery
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” – James Oppenheim
“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.” – John Stuart Mill
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.” – Marcus Aurelius
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” – Margaret Lee Runbeck
“Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.” – Norman Bradburn
“To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.” – Robert Brault
“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.” – Robert Anthony
“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Happiness is the experience of loving life. Being happy is being in love with that momentary experience. And love is looking at someone or even something and seeing the absolute best in him/her or it. Love is happiness with what you see. So love and happiness really are the same thing…just expressed differently.” – Robert McPhillips
“It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness.” – Sir Richard Branson
“The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Sometimes life knocks you on your ass… get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” – Steve Maraboli
“Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.” – Robertson Davies
“If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.” – Taisen Deshimaru
“We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.” – Thomas Merton
“I have only two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy.” – Allen J. Lefferdink
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” – Albert Camus
“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.” – Anne Frank
“Happiness is a constant work-in-progress, because solving problems is a constant work-in-progress – the solutions to today’s problems will lay the foundation for tomorrow’s problems, and so on. True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving.” – Mark Manson
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