Happiness Quotes

Happiness is the thing everyone wants and nobody can quite pin down. These quotes explore joy, contentment, pleasure, and the surprising research that suggests happiness has less to do with circumstances than with how you respond to them.

“Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.”

Jose Marti

More Happiness Quotes

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

John W. Gardner

“Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.”

Irving Babbitt

“The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.”

Chanakya

“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.”

Gustave Flaubert

“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.”

James Hillman

“I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.”

Hugh Laurie

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”

Dale Carnegie

“For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.”

Aeschylus

“Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.”

William Cowper

“It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.”

Miuccia Prada

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

Dalai Lama

“Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.”

Alice Walker

“Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”

Victor Hugo

“Happiness is mental harmony unhappiness is mental inharmony.”

James Allen

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