Happiness Quotes

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Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.

- Julia Child

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be "happy." I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all, to matter and to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

- Leo C. Rosten

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[Peace] is the highest and most strenuous act of the soul, but an entirely harmonious act, in which all our powers and affections are blending in a beautiful proportion, and sustain and perfect one another. It is more than the silence after storms. It is as the concord of all melodious sounds ... an alliance of love with all beings, a sympathy with all that is pure and happy, a surrender of every separate will and interest, a participation of the spirit and life of the universe.... This is peace, and the true happiness of [humanity]

- William Ellery Channing

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

- Albert Einstein

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.

- Gretta Brooker Palmer

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Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying "Wow, this is it. I guess I'm happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself." If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm ambitious for that, too.

- Harrison Ford

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Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Leo Tolstoy

The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.

- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamat

By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives.

- Sharon Salzberg

I never could be good when I was not happy.

- Julia Ward Howe

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

- Madame de Stael

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

- Groucho Marx

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

- Francis Bacon

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

- Samuel Johnson

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

- George Santayana

Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness.

- Mark Twain

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

- Andrew Carnegie

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

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

- Abraham Lincoln

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The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment. There always is the potential to create an environment of blame -- or one that is conducive to loving-kindness.

- Pema Chodron

It is a great mitzvah to be happy always.

- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.

- Alexandre Dumas