Explore Quotes on Happiness

There's a huge difference between achieving to be happy and happily achieving.

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Know that success and inner peace are your birthright, that you are a child of God and as such that you're entitled to a life filled with joy, love and happiness.

Where thou art, that is home.

Forever is composed of nows.

My friends are my estate.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you. As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity and solicitude, you will have a better opinion of the world about you.

We forge the chains we wear in life.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.

Happiness does not depend on your circumstances; it depends on your will. It's a choice that you make.