Famous Happiness Quotes

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

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

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

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

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

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

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

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

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

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

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

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience — or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

Happiness, not in another place but this place... not for another hour, but this hour.

Nothing is burdensome if it is lightened by cheerfulness.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.