Happiness Quotes
A paraphrase of Section 10 of the Sutra of 42 Sections, a Chinese text.
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Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
ausonius
happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi— Mahatma Gandhi, as quoted in Humor, Play, & Laughter: Stress-proofing Life with Your Kids (1998) by Joseph A. Michelli, p. 88.
happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn
To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.
sydney smith— Sydney Smith, in Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), "Of Friendship".
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
daniel boone— American pioneer and explorer
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca— Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist (4 BC - 65 AD)
You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.
Elizabeth Gilbert— Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
A disciplined mind brings happiness.
Buddha— The Dhammapada, verse 35
If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows them like a never-departing shadow.
Buddha— The Dhammapada, Chapter 1
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind.
Buddha
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
Kanye West— American rapper, songwriter, record producer, fashion designer, and entrepreneur
happiness is a warm puppy.
charles m. schulz— American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Peanuts (1922 - 2000)
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
jonathan safran foer— American novelist
Twenty-five years of happiness known. A very long time, yet so quickly it's flown! It's nice to remember the good times we've had, and leave in the past any things that were bad.
Norman Wesley Brooks— "From Your Loving Husband on Our Silver Anniversary" (1967)
A smile is happiness you will find right under your nose.
Tom Wilson— American cartoonist (1931 - 2011)
Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
Bram Stoker— from Dracula
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
honoré de balzac— Letters of Two Brides, Part I, chapter XXXI (1841-1842).
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim— The Wise.
I shall take the heart, for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.
l. frank baum— L. Frank Baum, lines for the Tinman in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900).
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis— Mere Christianity (1999, p. 50)
Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results.
Sakyong mipham— Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies for Modern Life
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
henri Matisse
It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.
j. m. barrie— Peter Pan (1911), also known as Peter and Wendy.
Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.
Beyoncé— American singer-songwriter
