“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.”
– Unknown Author
If you want to be happy, be.
– Leo Tolstoy
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
– Jacques Prévert
Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.
– Palmer Sondreal
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.
– Robert Anthony
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
– Mark Twain
If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
– Edith Wharton
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
– E.L. Konigsburg
Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.
– Cynthia Nelms
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
– Robertson Davies
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
– Norm Papernick
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
– Colette
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
– James Openheim
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.
– John Barrymore
“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called.
– A.A. Milne
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
– H. Jackson Browne
It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.
– Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard
Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.
– Hazelmarie Elliott (“Mattie”)
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
– Margaret Young
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
– St. Augustine
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
– Logan Pearsall Smith
This is my “depressed stance.” When you’re depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you’ll start to feel better. If you’re going to get any joy out of being depressed, you’ve got to stand like this.
– Charlie Brown
Pleasure is spread through the earth
In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
– William Wordsworth
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
– Abraham Lincoln
Happiness is a form of courage.
– Holbrook Jackson
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
– Jean de La Bruyere
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
– Christian Nestell Bovee
We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
– Frederick Keonig
Every now and then,
when the world sits just right,
a gentle breath of heaven
fills my soul with delight…
– Hazelmarie ‘Mattie’ Elliott
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
– Berke Breathed
Happiness is the soundtrack of my life.
– Grey Livingston
The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.
– Robert Brault,
Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory.
– Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
– Sydney J. Harris
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
– Janet Lane
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.
– Author Unknown
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
– Dalai Lama
Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower.
– Author Unknown
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
– Lady Blessington
The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1.
– Author Unknown
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
– Bernard de Fontenelle
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness?
– Yevgeny Zamyatin
A happy thought is like a seed that sows positivity for all to reap.
– Miriam Muhammad
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
– Immanuel Kant
Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.
– Johann Pestalozzi
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
– Henry Ward Beecher
If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door.
– Robert Brault
Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
– Sigmund Freud
There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
– Salvador Dali
The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
– V.S. Pritchett
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
– Walter Savage Landor
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
– George Bernard Shaw
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.
– Doug Larson
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
– Eric Hoffer
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
– Bertrand Russell
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
– Doug Larson
Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking.
– H.W. Byles
What I’m looking for is a blessing that’s not in disguise.
– Kitty O’Neill Collins
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
– William Shakespeare
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
– John Stuart Mill
We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.
– Mignon McLaughlin
The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
– Joseph Roux
The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.
– Robert Brault
As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.
– Andrew Delbanco
Happiness is the feeling you’re feeling when you want to keep feeling it.
– Author Unknown
Joy is a flower that blooms when you do.
– Author Unknown
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
– Booth Tarkington
Jumping for joy is good exercise.
– Author Unknown
Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness.
– Robert Brault
She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway.
– Rob Thomas
Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.
– Gretta Brooker Palmer
Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.
– Channing Pollock, Mr. Moneypenny
The happy have whole days,
and those they choose.
The unhappy have but hours,
and those they lose.
– Colley Cibber
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
– Charles L. Morgan
Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
– Iris Murdoch
Happiness is… usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
– Thomas Szasz
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
– Niccolo Machiavelli
You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.
– Author Unknown
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
– Ernest Dimnet
