Happiness Quotes and sayings

Happiness Quotes

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
Norm Papernick

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Colette

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

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore

Well, said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
A.A. Milne

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 Browne

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.
Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard

Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.
Hazelmarie Elliott (“Mattie”)

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
Margaret Young

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
St. Augustine

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts, 1931

This is my "depressed stance." When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.
Charlie Brown

Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
William Wordsworth

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

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is a form of courage.
Holbrook Jackson

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
Jean de La Bruyere

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Don't cry because it's over, Smile because it happened!
Dr. Seuss

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aurelius

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

We take greater pains to persuade others we are happy than in trying to think so ourselves.
Confucius

The really happy man never laughs -- seldom -- though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension -- and the happy are not over strung.
Prof. F. A. P. Aveling

Call no man unhappy until he is married.
Socrates

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Barbara De Angelis