Quotes and Sayings about Happiness (Page 2)

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.

Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.

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

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.

I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Was it the happiest day of our lives? Probably not, if only because the truly happy days tend not to involve so much organisation, are rarely so public or so expensive. The happy ones sneak up, unexpected.

To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

Happiness is amazing. It's so amazing it doesn't matter if it's yours or not.

It is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among homeless people.

I hate that word - "lucky". It cheapens a lot of hard work.

All I ever wanted to be was happy.

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

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.

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 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.

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

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

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.

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.

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.

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.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.