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.

Happiness is an enemy. It weakens you. Suddenly, you have something to lose.
Niki Lauda
Niki Lauda
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A joyful heart is more easily made perfect than a downcast one.
Philip Neri
Philip Neri
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No one should feel hurt by you, you should make everyone happy and leave.
Dada Bhagwan
Dada Bhagwan
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Don't worry, be happy! Embrace your weirdness.
Cara Delevingne
Cara Delevingne
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Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.
Jeremiah Burroughs
Jeremiah Burroughs
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Happiness is a choice.
Melissa Marr
Melissa Marr
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Money can't buy happiness. but neither can poverty.
Leo Rosten
Leo Rosten
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I'm on my way to happiness, where I can find some peace and rest.
Peter Toth
Peter Toth
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I enjoy the pleasure of my own company.
John Mellencamp
John Mellencamp
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Happiness equals reality minus expectations.
Tom Magliozzi
Tom Magliozzi
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Not every story has a happy ending, but that doesn't mean it's not worth telling.
Lucian
Lucian
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True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that you delight in God.
J.D. Greear
J.D. Greear
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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge
Victor Borge
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Being happy never goes out of style.
Lilly Pulitzer
Lilly Pulitzer
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A joyless Catholic is the devil's best tool. A joyful Catholic is God's greatest instrument.
Scott Hahn
Scott Hahn
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Fly me up to where you are beyond the distant star. I wish upon tonight to see you smile, if only for a while to know you're there. A breath away's not far to where you are.
Josh Groban
Josh Groban
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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire
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You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.
Helene Cixous
Helene Cixous
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Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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For the raindrop, joy is in entering the river.
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
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Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.
Giacomo Leopardi
Giacomo Leopardi
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Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.
Glenn Gould
Glenn Gould
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Joy is distinctly a Christian word and a Christian thing. It is the reverse of happiness. Happiness is the result of what happens of an agreeable sort. Joy has its springs deep down inside. And that spring never runs dry, no matter what happens. Only Jesus gives that joy.
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
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Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.
Bill Drayton
Bill Drayton
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Don't worry be happy right now.
Ilya Bryzgalov
Ilya Bryzgalov
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Oh what a happy soul am I although I cannot see. I am resolved that in this world contented I shall be. How many blessings I enjoy that other people don't. To weep and sigh, because I'm blind? I cannot and I won't.
Fanny Crosby
Fanny Crosby
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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Freya Stark
Freya Stark
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Ignorance is indeed bliss, but it is also dangerous and embarrassing.
Ted Nugent
Ted Nugent
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A library is never complete. That's the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.
Catherine M. Valente
Catherine M. Valente
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This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
Alice Waters
Alice Waters
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Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.
Francoise Sagan
Francoise Sagan
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Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon Joseph Suenens
Leon Joseph Suenens
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
Abu Bakr
Abu Bakr
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Happiness is having a rare steak, a bottle of whiskey, and a dog to eat the rare steak.
Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson
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I think I'm afraid of being happy because whenever I get too happy something bad always happens.
Charlie M. Schulz
Charlie M. Schulz
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Base not your joy on the deeds of others. For what has been given can be taken away.
Peter Steele
Peter Steele
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The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.
Andrew Solomon
Andrew Solomon
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Laughing together is as close as you can get to a hug without touching.
Gina Barreca
Gina Barreca
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Happiness is the overall experience of pleasure and meaning.
Tal Ben-Shahar
Tal Ben-Shahar
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Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
Lucy Lawless
Lucy Lawless
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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers: For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother.
SHAKESPEARE, Henry V. Act IV, Scene 3.
SHAKESPEARE, Henry V. Act IV, Scene 3.
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Happiness is a road traveled, not a destination.
Mike Dirnt
Mike Dirnt
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Your presence we will always miss, but the memories I will treasure, we had some happy times dear friend knowing you was a gift of pleasure.
Susan Smith
Susan Smith
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
Barbara Walters
Barbara Walters
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Health is wealth. Peace of mind is happiness. Yoga shows the way.
Swami Sivananda Saraswati
Swami Sivananda Saraswati
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A smile is a curve that sets everything straight
Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Diller
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For what pleasure can compare the pleasure of bringing joy and hope to other hearts. The more we make others happy, the greater will be our own happiness and the deeper our sense of having served humanity.
Douglas Malloch
Douglas Malloch
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I just want to make everyone happy.
Marat Safin
Marat Safin
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