Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
‐‐ Henry Van Dyke
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
‐‐ Joseph Wood Krutch
Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.
‐‐ James Altucher
Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.
‐‐ Paulo Coelho
Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy
Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.
‐‐ Sarah McLachlan
Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
‐‐ Bernard Meltzer
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
‐‐ Alexandre Dumas
Happiness is making your dreams come true.
‐‐ Jourdan Dunn
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
‐‐ James Allen
Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
‐‐ Benjamin Spock
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal
Happiness is no laughing matter.
‐‐ Richard Whately
Happiness is no respecter of persons.
‐‐ Stephen Fry
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
‐‐ J. Donald Walters
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
‐‐ Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not a luxury. It is a necessity. When we are happy, we are in the best possible place to be good to ourselves and those we love.
‐‐ Suze Orman
Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.
‐‐ Alice Meynell
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
‐‐ Thomas Merton
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
‐‐ Daphne du Maurier
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
‐‐ Margaret Lee Runbeck
Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?
‐‐ Amy Chua
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
‐‐ Immanuel Kant
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
‐‐ Dalai Lama
Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.
‐‐ Kate Hudson
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
‐‐ Jim Rohn
Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.
‐‐ Ellen Pompeo
Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.
‐‐ Julian Baggini
Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your freedom.
‐‐ Scott Adams
Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
‐‐ Zoe Saldana
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
‐‐ Albert Schweitzer
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno
Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.
‐‐ James Salter
Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
‐‐ Sabine Baring-Gould
Happiness is only real when shared.
‐‐ Christopher McCandless
Happiness is overrated. There has to be conflict in life.
‐‐ Brad Pitt
Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.
‐‐ Patrick Ness
Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
‐‐ Maurice Maeterlinck
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
‐‐ Mary Baker Eddy
Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.
‐‐ Marina Abramovic
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
‐‐ Ayn Rand
Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.
‐‐ Julie Christie
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
‐‐ Zhuangzi
Happiness is the bomb cosmetic! When I'm smiling, sometimes I'm giving thanks for all the things I have rather than worrying about the things I don't.
‐‐ Yaya DaCosta
Happiness is the cessation of suffering.
‐‐ Nhat Hanh
Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.
‐‐ Alexandra Stoddard