Happy Sayings – Quotes About Happiness

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of happy sayings and quotes from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap. If you want happiness for a day – go fishing. If you want happiness for a month – get married. If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime – help someone else.”
– Chinese Proverb

“I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. ”
– Abd-El-Raham

“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.”
– Edith Wharton

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ”
– Abraham Lincoln

“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? ”
– Albert Camus

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. ”
– Albert Camus

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ”
– Albert Camus

“Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory. ”
– Albert Schweitzer

“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

“I have only two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy. ”
– Allen J. Lefferdink

“Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ”
– Ambrose Bierce

“As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. ”
– Andrew Delbanco

“Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.”
– Norm Papernick

“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”
– Anne Frank

“If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that’s enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. ”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. ”
– Anton Chekhov

“Happiness is a state of activity.”
– Aristotle

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
– Aristotle

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.”
– Audrey Hepburn

“No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.”
– Barbara DeAngelis

“Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. ”
– Benjamin Franklin

“It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. ”
– Berke Breathed

“A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. ”
– Bernard de Fontenelle

“Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.”
– Bertrand Russell

“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. ”
– Bertrand Russell

“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. ”
– Bertrand Russell

“Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered. ”
– Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

“I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”
– Booker T. Washington

“So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. ”
– Booth Tarkington

“The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.”
– Brian Tracy

“Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.”
– Buddha

“Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.”
– Burton Hills

“The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it. ”
– C.P. Snow

“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 to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”
– Carl Jung

“Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. ”
– Carl Sandburg

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