Quotes about Happiness

“We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds, unpredictable, fleeting, and without responsibility to our desires. Through honest self-work, reflection, and meditation, we begin to string more of these moments together, creating a web-like design of happiness that drapes around our lives.”

“The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.”

“Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.”

“I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness amid the heartbreak.”

“In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.”

“Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.”

“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”

“Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.”

“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.”

“My beauty ethos? Well, I'd love to tell you it's something like 'less is more,' but honestly, it all starts with happiness. If only someone could bottle that up - when I'm happy, I'm at my most radiant and glowing. It does me better than any product ever could. And I stand by how cheesy and cliched that sounds.”

“Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.”

“Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.”

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”

“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”

“The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.”

“The right to happiness is fundamental.”

“Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.”

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”

“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.”

“The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.”

“Happiness is no respecter of persons.”