Explore Quotes on Happiness

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

Happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.

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

The greatest source of happiness is the ability to be grateful at all times.

If we can stay awake when our lives are changing, secrets will be revealed to us-secrets about ourselves, about the nature of life, and about the eternal source of happiness and peace that is always available, always renewable, already within us.

Happiness is not in things; happiness is in you.

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental happiness, we need both material and spiritual development. This is why, for our own good and that of society we need to balance material progress with inner development.

Beware of Destination Addiction... a preoccupation with the idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job and with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are.

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.

For most people to be happy, there has to be a person, place, or thing involved in their happiness. In true happiness, there are no things involved. It's a natural state. You will abide in that state forever.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

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

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.