Quotes on Happiness

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.

Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time...The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give up.

If you are happy, you are happy; nobody asks you why you are happy. Yes, if you are miserable, a question is relevant. If you are miserable, somebody can ask why you are miserable, and the question is relevant - because misery is against nature, something wrong is happening. When you are happy, nobody asks you why you are happy, except for a few neurotics. There are such people; I cannot deny the possibility.

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

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

You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

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

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.

A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.

It is impossible to pursue happiness. Nobody has ever pursued it. One has to wait for it. And it is not a right at all. No law court can force you to be happy or force happiness to be with you. No government violence is capable of making you happy. No power can make you happy.