Life Happiness Quotes

• 

  Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

  George Orwell

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  George Orwell (1946). “Critical Essays”

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

  Epicurus

  Boyfriend, Being Happy, Courage

  170 Copy quote

• If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Einstein: A Centenary Volume". Book by A.P. French, p. 32, 1980.

  1296 Copy quote

  Show source

• The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

  Ashley Montagu

  Happiness, Happy, Being Happy

  Ashley Montagu (1967). “The American Way of Life”

  69 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  596 Copy quote
• 

  Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  2323 Copy quote

• There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

  George Sand

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  234 Copy quote

• I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.

  Drew Barrymore

  Happiness, Beauty, Beautiful

  45 Copy quote

• It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Happiness, Work

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.100, Rowman & Littlefield

  95 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  880 Copy quote

• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.116, Chartwell

  174 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  37 Copy quote

• True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Happiness, Being Happy, Creativity

  144 Copy quote
• 

  Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

  207 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

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

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Dalai Lama, Victor Chan (2012). “The Wisdom of Compassion: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights”, p.11, Random House

  200 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

  870 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Love, Happiness, Sad

  148 Copy quote

• There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

  Maria Mitchell

  Happiness, Happy, Beauty

  100 Copy quote

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

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  113 Copy quote

• Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Happiness, Marriage

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12

  49 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Happiness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  703 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

  Martha Washington

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  129 Copy quote

• The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

  Charles Morgan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  45 Copy quote

• It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

  Agnes Repplier

  Happiness, Happy, Women

  78 Copy quote
• 

  Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 02, 2015

  118 Copy quote

  Show source