Happiness Quotes

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

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

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It's great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.

There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body.