Quotes on Self Happiness

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

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.

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.

We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

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

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

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.