Quotes about Happiness

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

“The most simple things can bring the most happiness.”

“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”

“So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.”

“To describe happiness is to diminish it.”

“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.”

“For me, the opposite of happiness isn't sadness but boredom.”

“Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.”

“For me, beauty comes from natural happiness. I think that a woman glows, and a man, even, when they're healthy and they're happy.”

“I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.”

“True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.”

“I learned to accept the audience's happiness for me, which is one of the hardest things for me to learn.”

“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.”

“You are the only thing holding you back from happiness. You have the ability to change your life radically for better or worse.”

“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”

“The closest synonym of happiness is excitement, and you can generate it by doing something that you can't completely comprehend. This understanding makes the process rich and exciting.”

“If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.”

“If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.”

“Growing up, my dad was 'get a real job, don't go pursuing your dreams, that's how you become homeless.' So, do I pick my family or do I pick my own happiness, and how much does my own happiness depend on my family?”

“Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.”

“Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.”