The best Quotes and Sayings about Happiness (Page 2)

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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?

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

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