Happiness quotes

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy — it's all that matters.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful.

There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Happiness is a warm puppy.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

If you want to be happy, be.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

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

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times. The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

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 it.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.