A Few Happiness Quotes

Anne Frank:
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.



Anne Frank:
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.



Aristotle:
Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient



Baruch Spinoza:
What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.



Benjamin Disraeli:
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.



Bertrand Russell:
The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.



Brother David Steindl-Rast :
Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.



Buddha:
Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.



Carl Jung:
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. 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.



Claude Monet:
The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.



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



Edith Wharton:
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.



Edward de Bono:
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.



Ella Wheeler Wilcox:
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.



Eric Hoffer:
You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.



Felix Adler:
The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also.



Fran Leibowitz:
Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you.



Francoise de Motteville:
The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.



Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.



George Burns:
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.



George Sand:
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.



H.H. the Dalai Lama:
The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.



HH the Dalai Lama:
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.





HH the Dalai Lama:
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.



Helen Keller:
Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.



Helen Keller:
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 been opened for us.



Helen Keller:
Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.