All Quotes

Happiness is the freedom of choice. The freedom to choose where to live, what to do, what to buy, what to sell, from whom, to whom, when and how.
‐‐ Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
‐‐ Austin O'Malley

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
‐‐ Don Marquis

Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

Happiness is the longing for repetition.
‐‐ Milan Kundera

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
‐‐ Phillips Brooks

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 Green Ingersoll

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
‐‐ George Santayana

Happiness is the only thing worth fighting for in your life.
‐‐ Lilly Singh

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.
‐‐ Richard Bach

Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
‐‐ Joyce Grenfell

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
‐‐ J. Donald Walters

Happiness is very simple and minimal.
‐‐ Tablo

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

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.
‐‐ Bar Refaeli

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.
‐‐ Martin Yan

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don't recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.
‐‐ Robert Baden-Powell

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
‐‐ Billy Wilder

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
‐‐ Johnny Carson

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.
‐‐ Prem Rawat

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.
‐‐ Elvis Costello

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
‐‐ Garth Brooks

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
‐‐ Julia Roberts

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
‐‐ Oscar Levant

Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

Happiness just doesn't happen. You have to force yourself.
‐‐ Stewart Rahr

Happiness lies first of all in health.
‐‐ George William Curtis

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.
‐‐ Luise Rainer

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
‐‐ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
‐‐ Marquis de Sade

Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.
‐‐ Ellen Key

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
‐‐ Robert Frost

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.
‐‐ Jon Krakauer

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
‐‐ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.
‐‐ Viktor E. Frankl

Happiness needs one-upmanship.
‐‐ Zygmunt Bauman

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
‐‐ Adam Smith

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
‐‐ John Barrymore

Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections.
‐‐ Joseph Butler

Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.
‐‐ Adam Davidson

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
‐‐ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
‐‐ Democritus

Happiness seems made to be shared.
‐‐ Pierre Corneille

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
‐‐ Marcel Proust

Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.
‐‐ Adam Davidson

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
‐‐ Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.
‐‐ Jasper Carrott

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.
‐‐ Amy Lowell

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.
‐‐ Dada Vaswani

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.
‐‐ Thomas Traherne