Happiness Quotes

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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 take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

- Carl Jung

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

- Charles Schulz

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

- Linus Pauling

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

- Bertrand Russell

The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him -- or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness.

- Susan Faludi

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

- W. Somerset Maugham

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

- Albert Camus

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.

- Robert Muller

What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.

- Baruch Spinoza

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.

- David Steindl-Rast

The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

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

- Albert Camus

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

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.

- W. Beran Wolfe

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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering. With that feeling everyone tries to achieve happiness and tries to get rid of suffering, and everyone has the basic right to do this. In this way, all here are the same, whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, Easterner or Westerner, believer or non-believer, and within believers whether Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and so on. Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same.

- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

- John D. Rockefeller

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase, if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

- C. P. Snow

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The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also.

- Felix Adler

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.

- Buddha

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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

- Edith Wharton

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Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

- Helen Keller