Sayings about Happiness
True happiness consists in making others happy. ~ Hindu Proverb
True happiness lies in giving it to others. ~ Indian Proverb
Where there is laughter happiness likes to be. ~ Japanese Proverb
If it does not kill you, it will bring you happiness. ~ Native American Proverb
Where there is love, there is happiness. ~ Polish Proverb
Happiness has its roots — sorrow has its womb. ~ Chinese Proverb
There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness. ~ Spanish Proverb
Real happiness consists in making others happy. ~ Hindu Proverbs
One moment of intense happiness prolongs life by a thousand years. ~ Japanese Proverb
Happiness itself does not stay — only moments of happiness do. ~ Spanish Proverb
Who cleans up the dirt washes away happiness. ~ Mongolian Proverbs
Happiness you pay for is to be found everywhere. ~ Gypsy Proverb
For some of us happiness comes while we sleep. ~ French Proverb
Happiness that lasts too long spoils the heart. ~ Italian Proverb
Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day. ~ Indian Proverb
Happiness is like crystal — when it shines the most, it soon cracks. ~ Turkish Proverb
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
To be able to curse once a day improves happiness and lengthens life. ~ Chinese Proverb
The happiness in your pocket, don’t spend it all. ~ Chinese Proverb
Happiness spring — cleans the heart. ~ Japanese Proverb
Where you are not — there is happiness. ~ German Proverb
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring. ~ Chinese Proverb
Woe is he who claims to have found happiness. ~ Iranian Proverbs
Happiness flies away from those who want it most. ~ Laotian Proverb
The person who gets stuck on petty happiness will not attain great happiness. ~ Tibetan Proverb
There is no winter without snow, no spring without sunshine, and no happiness without companions. ~ Korean Proverb
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come. ~ Japanese Proverb
Happiness rarely keeps company with an empty stomach. ~ Japanese Proverb
Better an ounce of happiness than a pound of gold. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Silence is the interpreter of happiness. ~ Arabian Proverb
Happiness opens the arms and closes the eyes. ~ German Proverbs
When ambition ends, happiness begins. ~ Hungarian Proverbs
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment. ~ Hasidic Proverb
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day. ~ Indian Proverbs
Who ever does not respect confidence will never find happiness in their path. ~ Traditional Proverb
Happiness and glass break easily. ~ Danish Proverb
Happiness is not a horse; you cannot harness it. ~ Russian Proverbs
Happiness does not come from happiness itself, but from the journey towards achieving it. ~ Finnish Proverbs
No one is happier than he who believes in his happiness. ~ German Proverbs
God is a father, happiness is a stepfather. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Happiness does not give, it only lends. ~ Danish Proverbs
An inflated idea can burst the bubble of your happiness. ~ Myanmar Proverb
With happiness comes intelligence to the heart. ~ Chinese Proverb
There is no other happiness but peace. ~ Thai Proverb
Quotations about Happiness
To buy happiness is to sell soul.~ Doug Horton
Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. ~ Author Unknown
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances. ~ Author Unknown
Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society. ~ Charles Gow
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
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Happiness comes from… some curious adjustment to life. ~ Sir Hugh Walpole
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. ~ E.L. Konigsburg
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. ~ Hobart Brown
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
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~ Jacques Prévert
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
There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. ~ James Openheim
Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. ~ Gretta Brooker Palmer
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. ~ Norm Papernick
All happiness is in the mind. ~ Author Unknown
You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. ~ Author Unknown
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. ~ Don Marquis
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. ~ Chuck Palahniuk
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
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. ~ V.S. Pritchett
Buried deep in the maze of commonplace, the pearl of true happiness lies. And he, who rejoices in little things, finds the pathway that leads to the prize. ~ Lucy M. Thompson
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ~ Charles Kingsley
Happiness is the natural flower of duty. ~ Phillips Brooks
True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope. ~ John F. Kennedy
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. ~ George Bernard Shaw
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. ~ Walter Savage Landor
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. ~ Author Unknown
True happiness comes from doing what’s right, not just doing what makes you feel good. ~ Author Unknown
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it ~ William Feather
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is an inside job. ~ William Arthur Ward
Money doesn’t always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars. ~ Author Unknown
It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer. ~ George S. Clason
It is difficult for any of us to go through life without either increasing or diminishing somebody’s happiness. ~ Author Unknown
To be of use in the world is the only way to happiness. ~ Hans Christian Andersen
She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway. ~ Rob Thomas
If happiness could be bought, few of us could pay the price. ~ Author Unknown
Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle. ~ Paulo Coelho
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ~Lady Blessington
You can’t pursue happiness and catch it. Happiness comes upon you unaware while you are helping others. ~ Author Unknown
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 consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit. ~ Author Unknown
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. ~ Jean de La Bruyere
[U]sefulness is happiness, and… all other things are but incidental. ~ Lydia Maria Child
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. ~ Joseph Addison
Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. ~ John Ruskin
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. ~ Bernard de Fontenelle
Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment. ~ Author Unknown
Some pursue happiness, others create it. ~Author Unknown
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
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. ~ Chuang Tzu
Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. ~ Channing Pollock
Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence. ~ Count Leo Tolstoy
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. ~ Freya Stark
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. ~ Immanuel Kant
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. ~ Oscar Wilde
True happiness comes from the knowledge that we are of some use in this world. ~ Author Unknown
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. ~ Joseph Roux
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. ~ Bertrand Russell
Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. ~ Johann Pestalozzi
We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness. ~ B.C. Forbes
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. ~ Anton Chekhov
Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it! ~ Freddie Mercury
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. ~ Og Mandino
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. ~ Mildred Barthel
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. ~ Booth Tarkington
Happiness is perfume; you can’t pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself. ~ James Van Der Zee
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. ~ H. Jackson Brown
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. ~ Author Unknown
If you’re ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness. ~ Author Unknown
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer. ~ Author Unknown
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control. ~ Ogden Nash
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
Happiness is… usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. ~ Thomas Szasz
When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy. ~ Oscar Wilde
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ~ Ambrose Bierce
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. ~ Doug Larson
Life is too short and too long to spend it doing anything that doesn’t make you happy ~ Jill Conner Brown
Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ~ Helen Keller
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Most true happiness comes from one’s inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. ~ William L. Shirer
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ~ Albert Camus
The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true. ~ Author Unknown
It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. ~ Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. ~ Hosea Ballou
Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack. ~ Hazelmarie Elliott
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. ~ Robert Frost
The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it. ~ C.P. Snow
True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents. ~ John W. Gardner
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. ~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery
True happiness, if understood, consists alone in doing good. ~ William Somerville
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. ~ Berke Breathed
If you cannot renounce the world the genius of happiness will never salute you. ~ Author Unknown
Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself. True happiness is born of self-reliance. ~ The Laws of Manu
Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. ~ Johnny Carson
Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop. ~ Gittel Hudnick
Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. ~ François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem. ~ Bill Vaughan
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
Happiness is a direction, not a place. ~ Sydney J. Harris
There are men who are happy without knowing it. ~ Marquis De Vauvenargues
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any condition. ~ Arthur Rubinstein
Happiness is the cheapest thing in the world when we buy it for someone else.~ Paul Flemming
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~ Author Unknown
Happiness is the sense that one matters. Happiness is an abiding enthusiasm. Happiness is single-mindedness. Happiness is whole-heartedness. Happiness is a by-product. Happiness is faith. ~ Samuel M. Shoemaker
True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ~ Helen Keller
Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory. ~ Albert Schweitzer
There is an old saying that money can’t buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game. ~ Pete Rose
Happiness is like a kiss in order to get any good out of it you have to give it to somebody else. ~ Author Unknown
When a man has lost all happiness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. ~ Sophocles
The secret of happiness is curiosity ~ Norman Douglas
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
All happiness depends on courage and work. ~ Honore de Balza
The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. ~ Albert Pike
If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living. ~ Herbert N. Casson
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
Money can’t buy happiness; it can, however, rent it. ~ Author Unknown
Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. ~ Iris Murdoch
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ~ John Mason Brown
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ~ Author unknown
There is no greater happiness than that which comes from sharing, no greater joy than that which comes from loving, giving, and caring. ~ Author Unknown
Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money. ~ Henny Youngman
Money itself won’t bring happiness, but it sure makes paying the bills easier. ~ Thomas J. Vilord
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ~ Ernest Dimnet
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open. ~John Barrymore
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens. ~ Douglas Jerrold
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
I have only two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy. ~ Allen J. Lefferdink
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~ Marcel Proust
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. ~ Donald J. Walters
Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation. ~ Author Unknown
Happiness is the feeling you’re feeling when you want to keep feeling it. ~ Author Unknown
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. ~ Bertrand Russell
The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion. ~ Author Unknown
The only true happiness is that which we give others. ~ Author Unknown
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. ~ William Saroyan
Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life. ~ Marcus Aurelius
Happiness is a positive cash flow. ~ Fred Adler
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable. ~ Clare Boothe Luce
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. ~ Palmer Sondreal
Money can’t buy health, happiness, or what it did last year. ~ Author Unknown
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable. ~ Author Unknown
With some whose nerves have a deep covering of fat, happiness is less of a problem that it is an accident of anatomy. ~ Attributed to Henry S. Haskins
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others. ~ B.C. Forbes
Happiness is a form of courage. ~ Holbrook Jackson
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Happiness will never come if it’s a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
Happy is he that chastens himself. ~ Author Unknown
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. ~ Ben Jonson
Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others. ~ Author Unknown
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. ~ Epictetus
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
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ~ William James
Happiness is a function of accepting what is. ~ Werner Erhard
Happiness is the ability to recognize it. ~ Carolyn Wells
Happiness is activity. ~ Aristotle
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. ~ Margaret Lee Runbeck
Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy. ~ J.M. Reinoso
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others. ~ Martin Luther
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. ~ John Stuart Mill