Quotes About Happiness

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Happiness

Quotations & Citations:

 

 

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

 

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

~Robert S. Lynd

 

Try to be a rainbow in someones cloud

 

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

~Margaret Lee Runbeck

 

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

~Robert Frost


Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

~Marcel Proust

 

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

~J.D. Salinger

 

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

~Johnny Carson

 

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

 

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

~Josh Billings

 

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

~William Morris

 

Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.

~Proverb

 

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

 

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.

~Jean Ingelow

 

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know

 

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

~Thomas Jefferson

 

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

~Phillips Brooks

 

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

~Epictetus

 

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

~Hosea Ballou

 

When a man has lost all happiness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

~Sophocles

 

 You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness

 

Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine.

~Henry Ward Beecher

 

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

~Mahatma Gandhi

 

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

~Richard Wagner

 

Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.

~Paulo Coelho

 

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

~Samuel Johnson

 

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

~Joseph Addison

 

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness

 

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

~Maxim Gorky

 

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.

~Werner Erhard

 

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

~J.D. Salinger

 

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.

~Douglas Jerrold

 

Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.

~Colette

 

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

~Mother Teresa

 

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

~Chinese Proverb