Happiness Quotes

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Those who thank God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, whatever the experience.

The quality of your life is determined by how you feel at any given moment. How you feel is determined by how you interpret what is happening around you, not by the events themselves.

The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves.

Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.

The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.

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 that has been opened for us.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.