Quote no. 1 :
“People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat – that’s the only moral they know.” – Dany Laferrière
Quote no. 2 :
“Sometimes we don’t find the thing that will make us happy because we can’t give up the thing that was supposed to.” – Robert Brault
Quote no. 3 :
“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” – Carrie Jones
Quote no. 4 :
“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.” – Orhan Pamuk
Quote no. 5 :
“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Quote no. 6 :
“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
Quote no. 7 :
“There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.” – Jodi Picoult
Quote no. 8 :
“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
Quote no. 9 :
“Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice.” – Naval Ravikant
Quote no. 10 :
“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.” – Bernard Meltzer
Quote no. 11 :
“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.” – Ayn Rand
Quote no. 12 :
“Happiness is the default state. It’s what’s there when you remove the sense that something is missing in life.” – Naval Ravikant
Quote no. 13 :
“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
Quote no. 14 :
“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.” – Freya Stark
Quote no. 15 :
“The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” – William Morris
Quote no. 16 :
“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
Quote no. 17 :
“Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” – Margaret Lee Runbeck
Quote no. 18 :
“If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.” – Joe Rogan
Quote no. 19 :
“Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Norman MacEwan
Quote no. 20 :
“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
Quote no. 21 :
“Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.” – Shari R. Barr
Quote no. 22 :
“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
Quote no. 23 :
“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.” – William Saroyan
Quote no. 24 :
“Happiness does not lead to gratitude. Gratitude leads to happiness.” – David Steindl-Rast
Quote no. 25 :
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” – James Oppenheim
Quote no. 26 :
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” – Andrew Carnegie
Quote no. 27 :
“On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.” – William R. Inge
Quote no. 28 :
“Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.” – Augustine of Hippo
Quote no. 29 :
“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote no. 30 :
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” – Charles Spurgeon
Quote no. 31 :
“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” – Thomas Jefferson
Quote no. 32 :
“It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness.” – Richard Branson
Quote no. 33 :
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” – Ernest Hemingway
Quote no. 34 :
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
Quote no. 35 :
“If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.” – Roy T. Bennett
Quote no. 36 :
“True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” – Helen Keller
Quote no. 37 :
“Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory.” – Albert Schweitzer
Quote no. 38 :
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” – Joseph Addison
Quote no. 39 :
“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.” – Marcus Aurelius
Quote no. 40 :
“People should find happiness in the little things, like family.” – Amanda Bynes
Short Quotes on Happiness:
- “Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.” – Immanuel Kant
- “Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.” – Mildred Barthel
- “Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.” – Channing Pollock
- “Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.” – Carl Sandburg
- “If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.” – Mother Teresa
- “With my desire to improve everything, I destroy the moment.” – Naval Ravikant
- “Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.” – C.S. Lewis
- “If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us.” – Richard Carlson
- “Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.”
- “Be happy. It really annoys negative people.” – Ricky Gervais
- “There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.” – Lady Blessington
- “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” – George Sand
- “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” – Gabriel García Márquez
- “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” – Mark Twain
- “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Ludwig Jacobowski
- “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Marthe Troly-Curtin
- “If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy
- “Happiness is a state where nothing is missing.” – Naval Ravikant
Unknown Quotes on happiness :
- “Don’t let the silly little things steal your happiness.”
- “The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of everyday.”
- “Life only comes around once, so do whatever makes you happy, and be with whoever makes you smile.”
- “Someday you’ll look back and understand why it all happened the way it did.”
- “Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.”
- “If you are not happy within your mind, then no thing in the world can make you happy”
- “You feel real Happiness when you change someone else’s life, and you expect nothing in return.”
- “You smile, Your world smile, and if you cry, your whole world cry”
- “Destination is a temporary pleasure. Path is the real happiness”
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