Quotes on Finding Happiness

Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

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

Nothing that you plan is going to work out. Everything is going to be totally different than the way you expected. And things will constantly challenge you. Wherever you look the world is not as solid it seems to be.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

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.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

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

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey.

If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.

I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.