Happiness Quotes
Here are a few of my favorite happiness quotes. If you see any errors on this page or any other please feel free to
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"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." ~Ben Franklin "Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead." ~Scottish Proverb "Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times." ~Unknown "A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us." ~O.S. Marden "...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it..." ~Aristotle "The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." ~Allan K. Chalmers "Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action." ~Benjamin Disraeli "Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life." ~Burton Hills "Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy." ~Cynthia Nelms "The joy that isn't shared dies young." ~Anne Sexton "Happiness is everywhere, you just have to look hard enough!" ~Unknown "Happiness is the place between too little and too much." ~Unknown "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 grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~Douglas Jerrold "When I was little, I used to try to capture the colored light. I thought I could hold it in my hand and carry it home. Now I know it is like happiness-it is there or it is not, you cannot hold it or keep it." ~Karen Cushman "Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."~Ayn Rand " I would rather have roses on my table than diamonds around my neck." ~Unknown "I see life through rose-colored glasses." ~Unknown "If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it." ~Andy Rooney "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." ~James Oppenheim "It's hard to tell what does bring happiness : poverty and wealth have both failed." ~Kin Hubbard "A smile is a curve that can set a lot of things straight." ~Unknown "Smiles are free, don't save them." ~Unknown "A smile brings rest to the weary, cheer to the discouraged, sunshine to the sad, and is nature's best antidote for trouble. Yet it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed or stolen. For it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away." ~Unknown "Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." ~James M. Barrie "A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside." ~Unknown "Never frown, not even when you are sad, because you never know when someone may be falling in love with your smile." ~Unknown "For every 60 seconds of anger, you lose one minute of happiness." ~Unknown "Come with me and I'll show you my world. No, it's not perfect. It's far from perfect, but I'm happy." ~Michelle Burns " 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, when life flows along like a song. But the man worth while is one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong." ~Ella Wilcox "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get." ~H. Jackson Brown "To be happy at any one point we must have suffered the same. Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed." ~Edgar Allen Poe "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." ~Abraham Lincoln "Simple pleasures bring great happiness." ~Mary Helen Brindell "An effort made for the happiness of others also lifts us above ourselves." ~Lydia M. Child "Remember, happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think." ~Dale Carnegie "A smile is when your inner beauty comes out." Unknown "A smile is the heart's way of breathing." ~Unknown "Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." ~Anne Frank "Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!" ~Jane Austen "The happiness of life is made up of the little things - a smile, a hug, a moment of shared laughter." ~Caroline Wallace "Let us always meet each other with a smile. For a smile is the beginning of love." ~Unknown "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." ~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." ~Mahatma Gandhi "Always keep smiling, sometimes it's the only thing that keeps you going." ~Unknown "People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy and it just makes them more unhappy." ~Christina Ricci "Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are." ~John B Sheerin "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls off a string." ~LM Montgomery
