Happiness Quotes, Sayings and Proverbs about Being Happy

Quotations about Happiness

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
J. Petit Senn

For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so ; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design.
Mme. De Girardin

We are no longer happy, so soon as we wish to be happier.
Walter Savage Landor

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
William Ellery Channing

Never give way to melancholy. Nothing encroaches more. I fight against it vigorously. One great remedy is, to take short views of life. Are you happy now ? Are you likely to remain so till tomorrow or next month, or next year ? Then why destroy present happiness by a distant misery which may never come at all, or you may never live to see ? For every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and many of them shadows of your own making.
Sydney Smith

A happy person is not a person in a certain
set of circumstances, but rather a person
with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs

Happiness consists, not in possessing much, but in being content with what we possess. He who wants little always has enough. Zimmermann

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions— the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of the cosmos too remote to feel its heart throb.
Henry Wood

To be secure, be humble. To be happy, be content.
James Hurdis

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way.
Benjamin Frankin

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
John Dryden

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are the perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
Immanuel Kant

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The hour of happiness will be the more welcome,
the less it was expected.
(Grata superveniet qute non sperabitur hora.)
Horace

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith

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

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