Happiness Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Happiness
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama 
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
Some days are simply meant for playing.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing
The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
The best cure for our own self-inflicted suffering
is often service to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
Happiness isn't at the end of the rainbow.
Happiness is at the beginning of the rainbow.
Following the rainbow is happiness,
not getting to the end of it.
- Werner Erhard
My happiness depends on me.
- A Course in Miracles
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can not find happiness by chasing after it.
Happiness comes from doing what you love to do,
and from being who you truly are.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
- Zhuangzi
Gratitude is crucial to your happiness
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
Darkness is not a force -
it is merely the absence of light.
Observe that when a light
is brought to a dark place,
the darkness disappears.
Sadness is similar -
when joy is brought to suffering,
the sadness disappears.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
Celebrate! Celebration is an expression of Gratitude.
Gratitude is like the prayer, while
Celebration is the hymn and sacred dance.
Celebration is its own road to happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind,
than on outward circumstances.
- Benjamin Franklin
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
Consistent happiness is found through
living in a state of constant gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
The path to happiness is forgiveness of everyone
and gratitude for everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Know that happiness is created by the act
of expressing gratitude for all of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
Happiness is a choice - independent of circumstances.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
- Anonymous
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp,
but which, if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick ourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
Happiness is not the absence of problems,
but the willingness to deal with them joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The path to your own happiness is usually found in service.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your success and happiness lies in you.
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you
shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
- Helen Keller
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions,
it is governed by our mental attitude.
- Dale Carnegie
If you don't take full responsibility
for your own happiness,
who do you suppose will?
Your happiness is a one person job -
it begins and ends with you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations,
if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith,
so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life.
If, in short, I am an optimist,
my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
- Helen Keller
...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) overcame being both deaf and blind
to become a famous author, lecturer, and activist
for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and ending war.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are
something to do,
something to love,
and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
- Werner Erhard
My greatest service to others is living happily,
and radiating happiness and joy to those around me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond
Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
- A Course In Miracles
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- Seneca
Simple living is the way to happy living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The path of the adventurer is a path of joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer.
The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy.
Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.
- don Miguel Ruiz
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
Know that joy is a choice, but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer
Dance with a Light Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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