Quotes About Happiness

Happiness sometimes feels elusive and at other times its joy is boundless and greets us each morning upon awakening. Sometimes happiness is found in the sight of a beloved's smile, other times it arrives when the sun pops out on a gloomy day. We can't predict when happiness will return when our lives seem bleak. Thus happiness will always be a bit of a mystery. We must celebrate its joys while we have it and remember to have hope that it will return when it is missing, it always does come back eventually. I share some words or wisdom about happiness from throughout the ages.

Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Vincent Van Gogh

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Maori proverb

Happiness is a state of activity.

Aristotle

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

Leo Tolstoy, "War and Peace"

If you want a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Albert Einstein

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables"

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

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank

The U.S. Constitution does not guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"

Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you had left open.

John Barrymore

Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

Aristotle

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

Edith Wharton

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.

Henry David Thoreau