Happy Sayings – Quotes About Happiness

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“Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. ”
– Channing Pollock

“To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. ”
– Charles Caleb Colton

“Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society. ”
– Charles Gow

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. ”
– Charles Kingsley

“The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. ”
– Charles L. Morgan

“One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ”
– Chinese Proverb

“Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. ”
– Christian Nestell Bovee

“Be happy. It’s one way of being wise. ”
– Colette

“Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. ”
– Cynthia Nelms

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
– Dalai Lama

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ”
– Dalai Lama

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. ”
– Denis Waitley

“I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success. ”
– Diego Val

“Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ”
– Don Herold

“Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. ”
– Don Marquis

“Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. ”
– Doug Larson

“The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. ”
– Doug Larson

“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens. ”
– Douglas Jerrold

“Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.”
– Earl Nightingale

“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.”
– Elizabeth Gilbert

“Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day without suspecting our abode until we drive away.”
– Emily Dickinson

“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. ”
– Epictetus

“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. ”
– Eric Hoffer

“The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ”
– Ernest Dimnet

“One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. ”
– Eugene O’Neill

“Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. ”
– François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.”
– E.L. Konigsburg

“It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. ”
– Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard

“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
– Franklin Roosevelt

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