Happiness Quotes

“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”

— Jane Austen

“The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

— Buddha

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy; it is what you think about.”

— Dale Carnegie

“It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use from time to time of playful deeds and jokes.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”

— George Orwell

“If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.”

— Tom Brokaw

“Health is the greatest possession; contentment is the greatest treasure; confidence is the greatest friend; non-being is the greatest joy.”

— Lao Tzu

“Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.”

— Montesquieu

“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”

— Stephen Hawking

“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.”

— Alfred Austin

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”

— Omar Khayyam

“Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.”

— Aretha Franklin

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

— Anne Frank

“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness; though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”

— Immanuel Kant

“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.”

— Mae West

“The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.”

— Robert Baden-Powell

“Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.”

— David Lee Roth

“True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”

— Helen Keller

“Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.”

— Carrie Underwood

“To all, to each, a fair good night, and pleasing dreams and slumbers light.”

— Walter Scott

“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm, and harmony.”

— Thomas Merton

“It's a sad man, my friend, who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.”

— Bruce Springsteen

“I feel sorry for people who don't drink when they wake up in the morning. That's as good as they're going to feel all day.”

— Frank Sinatra

“In theory, there is a possibility of perfect happiness: to believe in the indestructible element within one and not to strive towards it.”

— Franz Kafka

“Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.”

— Adam Smith

“If you want to be happy, be.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.”

— Socrates

“I am a positive person; I never think of the glass as half empty; I just keep pushing forward.”

— Rosie Perez

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.”

— Milan Kundera

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

— Bob Marley

“The home should be the treasure chest of living.”

— Le Corbusier

“By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.”

— Democritus

“That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.”

— Francis Hutcheson

“I knew everything and received everything, but real happiness is giving.”

— Alain Delon

“Money doesn't make you happy. I now have 50 million, but I was just as happy when I had 48 million.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.”

— H. McGill Bryant

“Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.”

— Edmund Hillary

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy. It's all that matters.”

— Audrey Hepburn

“How sweet it is!”

— Jackie Gleason

“The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

— Carl Jung

“Vegetables are a must on a diet; I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.”

— Jim Davis

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.”

— Martha Washington

“Smile, it's free therapy.”

— Douglas Horton

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

— Aristotle

“Happiness is a direction, not a place.”

— Sydney J. Harris

“When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.”

— Lady Gaga

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being?”

— Oscar Wilde

“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”

— Lao Tzu

“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”

— Immanuel Kant

“The bluebird of happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the chicken of depression.”

— Gary Larson

“If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.”

— Lord Byron

“Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable, or am I miserable because I listen to pop music?”

— John Cusack

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The quality of life is more important than life itself.”

— Alexis Carrel

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”

— Buddha

“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”

— Bram Stoker

“It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic; it keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.”

— Mitch Hedberg

“We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.”

— Anton Chekhov

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.”

— Brendan Gill

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“The secret to happiness is freedom, and the secret to freedom is courage.”

— Thucydides

“You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

— Aristotle

“I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.”

— W.C. Fields

“There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.”

— Lewis Carroll

“Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine.”

— Lord Byron

“Make others happy and joyful; your happiness will multiply a thousand-fold.”

— Swami Sivananda

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”

— Anne Frank

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”

— Mark Twain

“The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.”

— Harry Browne

“I restore myself when I'm alone.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.”

— Stephen Hawking

“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”

— Phyllis Diller

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little; for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.”

— Lucretius

“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.”

— William Samuel Johnson

“Humans are social beings, and we are happier and better when connected to others.”

— Paul Bloom

“Sports is the toy department of human life.”

— Howard Cosell

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”

— George Burns

“An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life; in fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.”

— Rodney Dangerfield

“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“All who joy would win must share it; Happiness was born a twin.”

— Lord Byron

“You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.”

— Frank Sinatra

“The only thing better than singing is more singing.”

— Ella Fitzgerald

“I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade and try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka and have a party.”

— Ron White

“God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.”

— Billy Graham

“Fatigue is the best pillow.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.”

— Thomas Hobbes

“It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.”

— Philip Green

“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind; delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.”

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”

— Clare Boothe Luce

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”

— Helen Keller

“In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness; otherwise, how would you know when you're happy?”

— Leslie Caron

“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs; it's jolted by every pebble on the road.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall be satisfied.”

— George Westinghouse

“Peace is its own reward.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.”

— Ogden Nash

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”

— Buddha

“A scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.”

— Robert Baden-Powell

“Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love; it is unselfish, therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.”

— Mary Baker Eddy

“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”

— Dalai Lama

“The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.”

— Mother Teresa

“Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.”

— Elton John

“If you want to be happy, be.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

— Buddha

“The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”

— Dalai Lama

“The best things in life are unexpected because there were no expectations.”

— Eli Khamarov

“Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.”

— Anthony Burgess

“The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

“The trick is in what one emphasizes; we either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”

— Carlos Castaneda

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“In all adversity of fortune, the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.”

— Boethius

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”

— e.e. cummings

“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth; we are happy when we are growing.”

— William Butler Yeats

“Man cannot live without joy; therefore, when he is deprived of true spiritual joys, it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it.”

— Jeanne Calment

“Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.”

— Mark Twain

“In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.”

— H.L. Mencken

“God made me fast, and when I run, I feel His pleasure.”

— Eric Liddell

“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.”

— Jeremy Bentham

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”

— Abraham Maslow

“Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“This is why I belong and why I believe I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.”

— Clayton Christensen

“The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Tis easy enough to be pleasant when life flows along like a song; but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.”

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“I can live for two months on a good compliment.”

— Mark Twain

“When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.”

— Walt Disney

“Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.”

— Bo Derek

“Were it not for imagination, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.”

— Anthony J. D'Angelo

“Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy; it's very simple.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.”

— Michael Jordan

“If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Golf is a good walk spoiled.”

— Mark Twain

“Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.”

— Jimmy Buffett

“Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.”

— Charlie Chaplin

“Action may not bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”

— William James

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”

— Robert Frost

“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”

— Joseph Addison

“Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.”

— W.C. Fields

“Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'”

— Robin Williams

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”

— Mark Twain

“Joy is not in things; it is in us.”

— Richard Wagner

“I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.”

— Boy George

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

— Buddha

“You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.”

— Dr. Seuss

“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”

— Jim Rohn

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

— Diogenes

“Let us never know what old age is; let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.”

— Ausonius

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There's no better feeling in the world than a warm pizza box on your lap.”

— Kevin James

“If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Health food may be good for the conscience, but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.”

— Robert Redford

“When you are happy, you can forgive a great deal.”

— Princess Diana

“It's great to be here; it's great to be anywhere.”

— Keith Richards

“Man only likes to count his troubles; but he does not count his joys.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Money can't buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.”

— Spike Milligan

“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”

— Pablo Picasso

“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”

— Freya Stark

“Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.”

— Boethius

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”

— Adam Smith

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

— Henry Miller

“The three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”

— Joseph Addison

“The great art of life is sensation—to feel that we exist even in pain.”

— Lord Byron

“As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.”

— Amber Riley

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”

— Saint Augustine

“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”

— Jane Austen

“Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.”

— Gertrude Stein

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us. We taste only sacredness.”

— Rumi

“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“When ambition ends, happiness begins.”

— Thomas Merton

“For now, I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich; I want to be a good mom.”

— Jewel

“Being a mom has made me so tired and so happy.”

— Tina Fey

“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Money can't buy happiness.”

— Howard Hughes

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”

— Edmund Burke

“He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth of nature.”

— Socrates

“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“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.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“A healthy attitude is contagious, but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.”

— Tom Stoppard

“Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.”

— Garth Brooks

“God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching.”

— Satchel Paige

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”

— Plato

“The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.”

— Lucille Ball

“Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object.”

— Hermann Hesse

“Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”

— Alexander Pope

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.”

— Heraclitus

“It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.”

— Horace

“Happy the people whose annals are vacant.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.”

— Elon Musk

“To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.”

— Charlie Chaplin

“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”

— Sigmund Freud

“So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.”

— Franz Kafka

“I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”

— Pablo Picasso

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”

— Oscar Wilde

“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.”

— Socrates

“Contentment is the only real wealth.”

— Alfred Nobel

“Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.”

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“All happy families resemble one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“The groundwork of all happiness is health.”

— Leigh Hunt

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

— Benjamin Franklin

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”

— Virgil

“We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.”

— Confucius

“Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”

— Mark Twain

“He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth of nature.”

— Socrates

“A well spent day brings happy sleep.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Happiness is being on the beam with life, to feel the pull of life.”

— Agnes Martin

“Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.”

— Henri Matisse

“You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.”

— George Michael

“You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.”

— Dr. Seuss

“Of the blessings set before you, make your choice, and be content.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”

— Voltaire

“It is in spending oneself that one becomes rich.”

— Sarah Bernhardt

“Youth smiles without any reason; it is one of its chiefest charms.”

— Thomas Gray

“There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.”

— Alfred de Musset

“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.”

— Bertrand Russell

“The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“I like boring things.”

— Andy Warhol

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.”

— Walt Whitman

“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Try to be like the turtle – at ease in your own shell.”

— Bill Copeland

“Fun is good.”

— Dr. Seuss

“Live life to the fullest and focus on the positive.”

— Matt Cameron

“I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.”

— Frida Kahlo

“I don't feel old; I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.”

— Bob Hope

“Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.”

— O. Henry

“Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?”

— Robert Benchley

“It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time; anger and laughter are mutually exclusive, and you have the power to choose either.”

— Wayne Dyer

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”

— Aldous Huxley

“You're never fully dressed without a smile.”

— Martin Charnin

“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“The three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”

— Joseph Addison

“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.”

— Zhuangzi

“We are all of us stars and we deserve to twinkle.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold; happiness dwells in the soul.”

— Democritus

“It is the working man who is the happy man; it is the idle man who is the miserable man.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“Life loves the liver of it.”

— Maya Angelou

“The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.”

— George Santayana

“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.”

— Bertrand Russell

“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”

— Winston Churchill

“In deep sadness, there is no place for sentimentality.”

— William S. Burroughs

“There is little success where there is little laughter.”

— Andrew Carnegie

“He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth of nature.”

— Socrates

“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted, they travel about as far as we do.”

— John Muir

“We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.”

— Carl Jung

“Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.”

— Aldous Huxley

“I'm a big sports fan; college football is my favorite.”

— Verne Troyer

“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy; by being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.”

— Ronald Reagan

“One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.”

— Maria Montessori

“To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.”

— Charlie Chaplin

“The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.”

— Unknown

“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”

— William Morris

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

— Albert Camus

“Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The soul is healed by being with children.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.”

— Bertrand Russell

“A well spent day brings happy sleep; so life well used brings happy death.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“I need music; it's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on—bad games, press, whatever.”

— LeBron James

“Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.”

— Napoleon Hill

“It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use from time to time of playful deeds and jokes.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions. It is governed by our mental attitude.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.”

— Mae West

“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.”

— Langston Hughes

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

— H.L. Mencken

“I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.”

— Dean Martin

“Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower.”

— John Harrigan

“I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.”

— E.V. Lucas

“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”

— Jane Austen

“Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.”

— Mark Twain

“Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.”

— Will Rogers

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”

— Confucius

“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life; either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul, or we get fat.”

— Albert Einstein

“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.”

— Jane Austen

“Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.”

— Rosalind Russell

“Hatred is self-punishment.”

— Hosea Ballou

“Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.”

— Joan Rivers

“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.”

— William Hazlitt

“The soul's joy lies in doing.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.”

— Mark Twain

“There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.”

— Lewis Carroll

“The dog is the god of frolic.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.”

— Hosea Ballou

“All happy families resemble one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”

— Mother Teresa

“True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.”

— Connie Stevens

“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

— Dumbledore

“Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous. Anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.”

— Vaclav Havel

“If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.”

— Marc Anthony

“Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.”

— James A. Garfield

“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”

— Edmund Burke

“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

— Albert Camus

“Positive anything is better than negative nothing.”

— Elbert Hubbard

“He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“It takes a lot of energy to be negative; you have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd rather spend my energy smiling.”

— Eric Davis

“The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.”

— Karl Marx

“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.”

— Samuel Johnson

“My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness; my inner peace.”

— Denzel Washington

“I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.”

— Robert Baden-Powell

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. Remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

— Epicurus

“God never ends anything on a negative. God always ends on a positive.”

— Edwin Louis Cole

“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”

— George Orwell

“The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.”

— Mencius

“We think too much and feel too little.”

— Charlie Chaplin

“Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.”

— Pele

“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

“What we call happiness, in the strictest sense, comes from the preferably sudden satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.”

— Sigmund Freud

“There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”

— Epictetus

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”

— Victor Hugo

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”

— Franz Kafka

“Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.”

— Michael Jordan

“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.”

— Doug Larson

“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

— Melody Beattie

“I never did a day's work in my life; it was all fun.”

— Thomas A. Edison

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

— Epictetus

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

— Buddha

“Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.”

— Bertrand Russell

“We live in an ascending scale; when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“It is no use to grumble and complain; it's just as cheap and easy to rejoice when God sorts out the weather and sends rain; why, rain's my choice.”

— James Whitcomb Riley

“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”

— Voltaire

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”

— Epictetus

“People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.”

— Anton Chekhov

“Nothing like a little judicious levity.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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

— Bertrand Russell

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.”

— Charlie Chaplin

“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath, and a glass of wine.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”

— Charlie Chaplin

“Joy is the serious business of heaven.”

— C.S. Lewis

“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Happiness is not a luxury; it is a necessity. When we are happy, we are in the best possible place to be good to ourselves and those we love.”

— Suze Orman

“Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.”

— Epicurus

“Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.”

— George Sand

“Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.”

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

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

— Dale Carnegie

“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

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”

— Steve Martin

“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.”

— Aeschylus

“Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue and always an enemy to happiness.”

— Hosea Ballou

“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”

— Abraham Maslow

“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.”

— Emily Dickinson

“When a man's stomach is full, it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.”

— Euripides

“Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.”

— J.D. Salinger

“I don't care about what nobody say or how nobody feel, I'm happy I'm living my life and that's what it is.”

— 21 Savage

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”

— Epictetus

“Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.”

— Morrie Schwartz

“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.”

— Socrates

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

— Marcel Proust

“What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.”

— Diogenes

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”

— Anne Frank

“Let no man be called happy before his death; till then he is not happy, only lucky.”

— Solon

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”

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