Quotes on Happiness

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

There are seeds of happiness planted in every human soul. Our mental attitude and disposition constitute the environment in which these seeds may germinate.

I'm so happy because today I found my friends - they're in my head.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights. It is simple payment of our wages, of our deserts; requires neither thanks nor complaint. Foolish soul! What act of legislature was there that thou shouldst be happy? A little while ago thou hadst no right to be at all.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

The key to human happiness lies within our own state of mind, and so too do the primary obstacles to that happiness.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Happiness has nothing to do with what you have or don't have. Happiness is related to what you are. However many things you may collect, perhaps they may increase your worries, your troubles, but happiness will not increase because of them. Certainly unhappiness will increase with them, but they have no relation to an increase in your happiness.