Top 25 Happiness Quotations

January 22, 2008

  • “There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all.”–Anonymous

  • “Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.” – Mildred Barthel

  • “Happiness is good health and a bad memory.” – Ingrid Bergman

  • “Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving; make every day a holiday and celebrate just living.”– Amanda Bradley

  • “People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.” – H. Jackson Browne

  • “In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you’re happy?” – Leslie Caron

  • “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

  • “Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying “Wow, this is it.” I guess I’m happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I’m even feeling more and more at peace with myself. If there’s something else to happiness, let me know. I’m ambitious for that, too.”–Harrison Ford

  • “We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”– Anne Frank

  • “Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.”– Benjamin Franklin

  • “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”– Robert Frost

  • “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.”– Dave Gardner

  • “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Helen Keller

  • ” My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.” – Holly Ketchel

  • “Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.”–Rose Lane

  • ” People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

  • ” Happiness.it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”–Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • “Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead.” – Scottish Proverb

  • “The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.”– C.P. Snow

  • “Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.”– Sophocles

  • “Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it.”– Mark Twain

  • “The surest way to happiness is to lose yourself in a cause greater than yourself.”– Unknown

  • “I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.”–Martha Washington

  • “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde

  • “No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness.”– Mary Wollstonecraft

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