Happiness Quotes

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

- Marcel Proust

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.

- Margaret Bonnano

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.

- Mark Twain

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

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

- Pearl S. Buck

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.

- W. Beran Wolfe

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something completely great.

- Willa Cather

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

- Benjamin Franklin

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

- Jacques Prévert

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

- Robert Anthony

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

- Mark Twain

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

- Edith Wharton

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

- E.L. Konigsburg

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

- Robertson Davies

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

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

Happiness is a form of courage.

- Holbrook Jackson

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

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

- Berke Breathed

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.

- Author Unknown

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

- The Dalai Lama

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

- Immanuel Kant

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

- Johann Pestalozzi

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

- Doug Larson

What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise.

- Kitty O'Neill Collins

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

- William Shakespeare

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

- Joseph Roux

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 matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

- Iris Murdoch

Happiness is... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

- Thomas Szasz