Happy Quotes
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.- Ashley Montagu
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.- Audrey Hepburn
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.- Epictetus
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.- Martha Washington
Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.- Eskimo Proverb
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.- Omar Khayyam
Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.- Tom Brady
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.- Marcel Proust
We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.- Barbara de Angelis
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.- Marcel Pagnol"
Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife." - Franz Schubert
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."- Robert Louis Stevenson
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.- George Bernard Shaw
Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.- William E. Gladstone
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.- James Oppenheim
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.- Ayn Rand
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.- Denis Waitley
Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.- Saul Bellow
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.- Ingrid Bergman
Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.- Benjamin Franklin
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.- Martha Washington
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.- Leo Tolstoy
Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.- Joanne Harris
If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal — that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself.- Henry David Thoreau
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.- Charles L. Morgan
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.- Ayn Rand
The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful countenance, and it is the cheerful countenance that spreads cheer to make other hearts merry. The sunny soul brings sunshine everywhere. A bright and happy temperament is a great social asset, adding to the happiness of the world.- Hugh Black
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.- Helen Keller
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.- Booth Tarkington
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.- Henry Van Dyke
A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.- Joseph Addison
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.- Dalai Lama
Happiness is... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.- Thomas Szasz
That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.- Lupe Fiasco
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.- J.D. Salinger
