Quotes on Being Happy

There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

I have chosen to be happy because it is goo for my health.

You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

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

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

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.

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.