HAPPINESS QUOTES AND SAYINGS (16)
Don't shade your eyes from the bright joy of the world.
~Terri Guillemets
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
~Mildred Barthel
[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.
~Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife, 1829
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
~Robert Frost
The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
~Author Unknown
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
~Margaret Lee Runbeck
Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society.
~Charles Gow
While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
~Bo Bennett
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
~Charles Caleb Colton
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
~Jane Austen
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
~Kanye West
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
~James Allen
People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
~Joan Rivers
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
~Spike Milligan
The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.
~Olivia Goldsmith
Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
~Phillips Brooks
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
~Bryant H. McGill
Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.
~Taylor Swift
While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.
~Bryant H. McGill
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
~Andre Maurois
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.
~George Eliot
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
~Malcolm Muggeridge
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
~Quentin Crisp
When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.
~Suze Orman
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
~Ingrid Bergman
Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.
~John C. Maxwell
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
~Samuel Johnson
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
~George A. Sheehan
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
~Francis Bacon
Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
~George Eliot
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
~George Santayana
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