Quotes on Being Happy

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Love, compassion and concern for others are real sources of happiness. If you have these in abundance, you will not be disturbed even by the most uncomfortable circumstances. If you nurse hatred, however, you will not be happy even in the lap of luxury. Thus, if we really want happiness, we must widen the sphere of love. This is both religious thinking and basic common sense.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

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.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want to find the right person in your life, be the right person. If you want to see change in the world, become the change you want to see.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

Happiness is a state of activity.