Best Quotes on Happiness

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

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

By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.

Love the life you live, live the life you love.

Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.

You cannot find peace avoiding life.

If you want something then you lose everything. If you don't want anything then you already have everything.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Don't want anything. Then you get everything.

To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.

Your success and happiness lie in you.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

There is no path to Happiness. Happiness is the path.

Do anything, but let it produce joy.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.

Happiness is an effect of doing what you love, not an end goal to be achieved.

I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow. Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.

The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

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

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

Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Success is getting what you want... Happiness is wanting what you get.

Success on the outside means nothing unless you also have success within.

If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.

The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.

If you see someone without a smile give them one of yours.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

A smile is the shortest distance between two people.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

It's your outlook on life that counts.

Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.

Smile! It increases your face value.

Laughter is an instant vacation.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

With gratitude, optimism is sustainable.

Scared people want comfort and certainty so they avoid failure. People living fully seek challenges because this is where they feel alive.

We cannot always do great things in life, but we can do small things with great love.

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

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

To laugh in the face of trouble is to be its conqueror.

A hut full of laughter is richer than a palace full of sadness.

We know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.

Focus on how far you have come in life rather than looking at the accomplishments of others.

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

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

Wisdom is doing now what you are going to be happy with later on.

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Life must be rich and full of loving-it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.

Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

The only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

When you're happy, you enjoy the music. But when you're sad, you understand the lyrics.

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Live your life and forget your age.

Open your eyes and look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

I've always lived in the moment.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences.

Whether you have a problem in your life or not depends upon your own attitude, your own understanding.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

I am in a humour to feel everything, and I have a vivid feeling of the high morning.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.

You may be one person in this world, but to one person you may mean the world.

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

We love the things we love for what they are.

There is no path to Peace. Peace is the path.

The less you want, the richer you are. The more you need in order to be happy, the more miserable you'll be.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Stop being tormented by everyone else's reaction to you.

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.

Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.

Life is a gift. Never forget to enjoy and bask in every moment you are in.

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

Be grateful for what you have now, and nothing should be taken for granted.

If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible—only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.

புன்னகை என்பது பிறருக்கு நாம் தரும் பரிசு மட்டுமல்ல, நமக்கே நாம் தந்து கொள்ளும் ஒரு தெரபி.

You have as much laughter as you have faith.

The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.

Being in a good frame of mind helps keep one in the picture of health.

I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I did.

Don't let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Giving is living. If you stop wanting to give, there's nothing more to live for.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

Don't waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

The healthiest response to life is joy.

Marriage is the most natural state of man and the state in which you will find solid happiness.

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.

Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

The morning was full of sunlight and hope.

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

To be totally at leisure for one day is to be immortal for one day.

Life should be touched, not strangled.

I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.

Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.

Life can be the scariest and most beautiful thing simultaneously.

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

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

Enjoy every minute of life. Never second-guess life.

All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

You can't make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about yourself.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that.

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

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Truth is such a rare thing, it is delighted to tell it.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps.

Be — don't try to become.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

The less you respond to negative people, the more positive your life will become.

It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.

The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for.

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

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

Create each day anew.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

When you are totally at peace with yourself, nothing can shake you.

You'll never find rainbows if you're looking down.

To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another, when we are there in the most attentive and caring way.

What I know for sure is that every sunrise is like a new page, a chance to right ourselves and receive each day in all its glory. Each day is a wonder.

When at last you are come to the ocean of happiness, do not go back thirsty.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.

We cannot expect to be happy always... by experiencing evil as well as good we become wise.

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

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

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time when miserable.

This is a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.

It is in the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.

True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

Happiness is only real, when shared.

If the happiness and prosperity of other people depend on you, you have nothing to fear anymore.

When you move beyond your fear, you feel free.

Use your smile to change the world but don't let the world change your smile.

Look to the beauty of this day, miracles are all around you.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

I found that if I got up early and I worked out, I had a better day.

Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it.

Walk towards the sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind you.

If you are not living each day with excitement, energy, and passion, then you are not living true to your life purpose.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

I discovered a long time ago that if I helped enough people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry.

You become a worrier by practicing worry. You become free of worry by practicing the opposite.

Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it's all an experience.

To belittle, you have to be little.

Life is from the inside out. When you shift on the inside, life shifts on the outside.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

When you say yes to change, you are choosing to navigate that path peacefully and happily and see where it takes you.

Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

May you live all the days of your life.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

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

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Rather than waste time and energy worrying, use that time and energy to constructively deal with whatever is causing the worry.

Unhappiness enters through a door that has been left open.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

One small positive thought can change your whole day.

If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

Be gentle with yourself. Think less and feel more. Be as happy as you can. You only have this moment.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it.

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.

The best dreams happen when you're awake.

Stay away from people who makes you feel like you are wasting their time.

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

It's better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing, than a long life spent in a miserable way.

This is such a short and precious life that it's really important that you don't spend it being unhappy.

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity.

This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.

If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

Bloom where you are planted!

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Happiness is only real when shared.

Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people's hands.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

Every second you have on this planet is very precious and it's your responsibility that you're happy.

Embrace the life you have and stop wishing that you could be someone else.

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax.

It doesn't matter if the glass is half empty or half full. Be grateful you have a glass - you're the only person that can decide what's in it.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Life and the simple beauty of it is too good to pass up.

If I can laugh, I can live.

Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.

Don't settle, and don't struggle.

Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.

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

Many people think excitement is happiness... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

The things I carry are my thoughts. That's it. They are the only weight. My thoughts determine whether I am free and light or burdened.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.

Don't put off living to next week, next month, next year or next decade. The only time you're ever living is in this moment.

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Waking up early is a good way to miss the depressing news that is probably on the front page of the newspaper.

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Each day provides it's own gifts.

One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others.

Challenge yourself to find the good and beautiful thing inside of everyone.

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

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

They say love is the best investment; the more you give, the more you get in return.

If you want to feel happy, do something for yourself. If you want to feel fulfilled, do something for someone else.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.

This is the real secret of life - to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

Don't seek, don't avoid, don't expect. Take what comes and be happy.

A thing must be loved before it is lovable.

If you want peace, accept. If you want suffering, expect.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love.

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

May you find grace as you surrender to life. May you find happiness, as you stop seeking it.

It is up to each of us to sing as we feel moved by the overall song of life.

Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.

Work is always an antidote to depression.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

Inner peace is when you realize that, in the end, nothing matters.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Smile, breathe and go slowly.

When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy.

A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.

If you try to micromanage yourself all you're going to do is make yourself miserable.

Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.

Always look on the bright side of things. If you can't comprehend this, polish that which has become dull until it begins to shine.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.

No man is happy unless he believes he is.

The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.

The less you try to impress, the more peaceful you can be.

The secret of happiness is not in doing what you like but in liking what you have to do.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf.

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

The secret of perfect health lies in keeping the mind always cheerful - never worried, never hurried, never borne down by any fear, thought or anxiety.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.

Start the day with love, spend the day with love, fill the day with love and end the day with love.

What have you done today to make someone else happy?

A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Yesterday is the past, tomorrow is the future, today is a gift - that's why it's called the present.

Give out what you most want to come back.

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

Everybody needs a passion. That's what keeps life interesting.

Living life in style also means living a life of balance.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is you-er than you.

Reading should be a pleasure, not a chore.

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.