Happiness Quotes

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Happiness Quotes

What is happiness? Happiness means different things to different people. But essentially, happiness is a mental state of well-being ranging ranging from contentment to intense joy. Get inspired by this great collection of hapiness quotes by Dalai Lama, Buddha, Gandhi, Dale Carnegie and many more.

Happiness Quotes

Helen Keller

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.2 points

Buddha

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.1 point

Dalai Lama

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.0 points

Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.0 points

Deepak Chopra

A psychologically healthy person can, in fact, be defined as someone whose desires actually produce happiness.0 points

Sophocles

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.0 points

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.0 points

Chuang-Tse

Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.0 points

James Openheim

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.0 points

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.0 points

Frederick Keonig

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.0 points

Abraham Lincoln

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.0 points

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.0 points

W. Beran Wolfe

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day.0 points

Marcel Proust

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.0 points

George Bernard Shaw

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.0 points

Don Marquis

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.0 points

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.0 points

William R. Inge

On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.0 points

Samuel Johnson

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.0 points

Robert Brault

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.0 points

Joseph Addison

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.0 points

Henry David Thoreau

If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal - that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself.0 points

Taisen Deshimaru

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.0 points

Author Unknown

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.0 points

Dalai Lama

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.0 points

Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.0 points

Aristotle

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence"0 points

Herman Cain

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.0 points

Dale Carnegie

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.0 points

Storm Jameson

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.0 points

Oscar Wilde

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.0 points

Maxim Gorky

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.0 points

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself.0 points

Epictetus

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.0 points

Mahatma Gandhi

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.0 points

Benjamin Franklin

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.0 points

Napoleon Hill

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.0 points

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.0 points

Dale Carnegie

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.0 points

Aristotle

Happiness depends upon ourselves.0 points

Dalai Lama

One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment of birth every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering. Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affects this. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness.0 points

Albert Schweitzer

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.0 points

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