Top 133 Happiness Quotes

Happiness is less a destination than a practice. The quotes in this collection point to where it actually comes from (small actions, presence, kindness, and a mind at peace), rather than where we usually go looking for it.

The earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Cleanliness is a mindset - a positive habit that keeps the body, mind, and environment happy, healthy, simple, neat, and delightful.
Anna Tay
Anna Tay
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Happiness is only real when shared.
Jon Krakauer
Jon Krakauer
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Don't Worry Be Happy.
Meher Baba
Meher Baba
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The noblest art is that of making others happy.
PT Barnum
PT Barnum
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Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding your self that everything happens for a reason.
John Mayer
John Mayer
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Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.
Saint John Chrysostom
Saint John Chrysostom
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Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
Amy Vachon
Amy Vachon
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Happiness inspires productivity.
Shawn Achor
Shawn Achor
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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
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The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.
Unknown
Unknown
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Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss
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Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the greatest joy for all humankind.
Nichiren
Nichiren
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The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness.
Osamu Dazai
Osamu Dazai
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Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.
Patricia Briggs
Patricia Briggs
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Happiness is simply to allow everything to be exactly as it is from moment to moment.
Rupert Spira
Rupert Spira
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If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
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Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.
Zoroaster
Zoroaster
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Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Blake Milligan
Blake Milligan
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The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
Henri Poincare
Henri Poincare
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Joy is peace dancing and peace is joy at rest.
F.B. Meyer
F.B. Meyer
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim
James Oppenheim
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We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.
Peter Block
Peter Block
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Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability – they should go hand in hand.
Donald A. Norman
Donald A. Norman
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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Laura Ingalls Wilder
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When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky
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The groundwork of all happiness is health.
Leigh Hunt
Leigh Hunt
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Money can't buy happiness.
Howard Hughes
Howard Hughes
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I am so happy. I am so impossibly happy.
Matthew Quick
Matthew Quick
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Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens.
David Steindl-Rast
David Steindl-Rast
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A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
Ruth Bell Graham
Ruth Bell Graham
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Christianity doesn't offer a smooth flight; it provides a safe landing. The promise of Jesus is not one of happiness. He promises righteousness.
Ray Comfort
Ray Comfort
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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Maria Mitchell
Maria Mitchell
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You already have everything you need to be content. Your real work is to do whatever it takes to realize that.
Gershom Roth
Gershom Roth
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Man plans. God laughs.
Harlan Coben
Harlan Coben
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Happy people are poor psychologists.
Stefan Zweig
Stefan Zweig
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Happy trails to you, until we meet again.
Dale Evans
Dale Evans
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A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Nicolas Chamfort
Nicolas Chamfort
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Laughter is the language of the soul.
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda
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Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.
Matthieu Ricard
Matthieu Ricard
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Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.
Ruskin Bond
Ruskin Bond
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Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.
Jarome Freeman Clarke
Jarome Freeman Clarke
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Your purpose is to be YOU as fully as you can and the way that's perhaps most easily done is to act on your highest joy.
Joyce
Joyce
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Happiness is a risk. If you're not a little scared, then you're not doing it right.
Sarah Addison Allan
Sarah Addison Allan
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The quest for God is the quest for true happiness.
Harold Klemp
Harold Klemp
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What we do to others will come back to us. You can't expect to be happy by causing unhappiness to others
Sharon Garrison
Sharon Garrison
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Nothing is miserable unless you think it so, and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.
Seneca
Seneca
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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
John Ray
John Ray
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