Inspiration Quotes – Happiness

Happiness is not in our circumstances but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.
John B. Sheerin


The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: If you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.
C.P. Snow


Happiness is more a state of health than of wealth.
Frank Tyger


Giving of yourself, learning to be tolerant, giving recognition and approval to others, remaining flexible enough to mature and learn – yields happiness, harmony, contentment and productivity. These are the qualities of a rich life, the bounteous harvest of getting along with people.
Jack C Yewell


Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison


If you have nothing else to do, look about you and see if there isn’t something close at hand that you can improve! It may make you wealthy, thought it is more likely that it will make you happy.
George Matthew Adams


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


May we never let the things we can’t have, or don’t have, or shouldn’t have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.
Richard L. Evans


Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
Robert G. Ingersoll


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


Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Burton Hills


There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen


Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, ‘making it’, or success.
Dr. Joyce Brothers


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


It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.
KIN HUBBARD


When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Keller, Helen


There is no point to samba if it doesn’t make you smile.
Alma Guillermoprieto


Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith


Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
Dale Carnegie


Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don’t put off being happy until some future date.
Dale Carnegie


Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not.
Jerry Gellis


It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
Roger L’Estrange


You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Vernon Howard


We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld


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


Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Anonymous


Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
Anonymous


Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.
Sharon Stone


Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.
Jim Rohn


It doesn’t get any better than this.
Author Unknown


The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus A. Antoninus


The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
J. Robert Oppenheimer