Quotes and Sayings about Happiness

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh in Gift from the Sea

It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking: How did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue. And maybe we can actually never have it, no matter what. How did he know that?

Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness

Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence Freedom

"But don't you think," I persist, "that it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?"

Audrey Niffenegger in The Time Traveler’s Wife

Time

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

If you are happy, happiness will come to you. Because happiness wants to go where happiness is.

Yogi Bhajan

'Destiny, chance, fate, fortune -they're all just ways of claiming your success without claiming your failures.'
- Gerrard of the Weatherlight

Magic: The Gathering () - Pendrell Drake

Failures & Mistakes Fate & Destiny Chance & Randomness

Be happy for no reason, like a child! If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

Deepak Chopra

Satisfaction

Whoever said happines comes with sunshine, has never danced in the rain!

Dancing Sun Rain

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

Mark Twain

Life

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Joy Beginning

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Patience & Endurance Butterflies

Happiness is like lightning, blink and you miss it. After that came the fall. When you reach heaven the fall is devastating.

Tokyo in Money Heist - Season 3 Episode 7

In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.

Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there.

Roald Dahl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Happiness is not always the best way to be happy.

Judith in Where the Wild Things Are

Keep your heart open to dreams, for as long as there's a dream there is hope. And as long there is hope there is joy in living. The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making your dreams come true.

Dreaming

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long.

Paulo Coelho

Fate & Destiny Chance & Randomness

The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Moments

Well, I think the golden rule I can think of is the fact that you must follow your passion and do something that's close to your heart. And I think that that's very important, well, to be successful and to be happy.

Kumar Mangalam Birla

Success Passion

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

Intelligence

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

Kanye West

Character

People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

Frank Sinatra

Self-Confidence Talent

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Always a chancer, always lucky, he'd fall into a river and come out dry, with fish in his pockets.

Cecelia Ahern in Thanks for the Memories: A Novel

Happiness is with the one that's laughing.

Japanese Saying

Laughing & Smile

Maybe we're not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we're thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we're thankful for the things we'll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.

Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy - Season 2 Episode 9

Life

It's hard to find happiness inside ourselves, and it's impossible to find it anywhere else.

Nicolas Chamfort

I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice.

Albert Einstein

God Chance & Randomness

Happiness is the only thing that doubles when you share it.

Albert Schweitzer

Friendship

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Michael J. Fox

Satisfaction

My definition of beauty is happiness. I believe that when you are happy, it shines through and makes you a more attractive and beautiful person!

Bianca Balti

Beauty

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

Memories

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy!

Anne Frank

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Carl Jung

Life Darkness

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Taylor Swift

There's no such thing as luck - only good science and math.

Walter O'Brien in Scorpion - Season 1

Mathematics Chance & Randomness

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

Success Motivation

For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something; it's being happy with who you are.

Britney Spears

Success Satisfaction

For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Minutes

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Thomas Jefferson

Ambition Work

Many people know that they're unhappy. But even more people don't know that they're happy.

Albert Schweitzer

Positive Quotes

He has the most who is most content with the least.

Diogenes Laertios

Humility

Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.

Ray Kroc

Sweating

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Powfu - June 2018

Happiness is only real when shared.

Jon Krakauer in Into the Wild

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

Sarah McLachlan

Clouds

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

John Belushi

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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others.

David Nicholls in One Day

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