The best quotes about Happiness

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

The number one priority in life is to take care of yourself and make sure you're happy.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life!

If you want to be happy, make others happy!

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

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

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

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

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.

My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

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

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

I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.

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

Love is an illusion, and happiness is fleeting.

The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't a search for meaning. It's to keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense, and eventually you'll be dead.

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.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

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

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

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

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.

That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.

The happiest people don't worry too much about whether life is fair ot not, they just get on with it.

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.

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

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.

Happiness is not always the best way to be happy.

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.

You couldn't know what happiness is if you don't live through the tougher times likes this. They make you stronger, and they make you value those moments of happiness with all your heart.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Alles, was nicht als Mittel zu einem Zweck und letztlich als Mittel zum Glück begehrt wird, ist selbst ein Teil des Glücks und wird erst dann um seiner selbst willen begehrt, wenn es dazu geworden ist.

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.

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.

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

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

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.