Happiness Quotes

"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony."

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."

"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."

"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."

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

"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."

"If you want to be happy, be."

"Happiness can exist only in acceptance."

"You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness."

"The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others."

"Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."

"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."

"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."

"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."

"Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it."

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

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."

"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."

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

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

"Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable."