Quotes About Happiness

One thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

If you want to be happy, set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy, get enthusiastic about something.

The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings - not your birthdays.

We all have 100% to deal with in our lives: 10% is important, 90% unimportant. The secret to a happy, productive life is to deal with the 10% and let the 90% slip.

I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old . . . If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my husband, Larry, and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding, and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Life holds so much, so much to be happy about always. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can be felt only if you don't set any conditions.

Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Better to be happy than wise.

Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is?

I have found that most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

It is the happiness that comes from within that is lasting and fulfilling.

Each person on this planet is inherently, intrinsically capable of attaining "dizzying heights" of happiness and fulfillment.

The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

It is a man's proper business to seek happiness and avoid misery.

At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, "I was always happy." Hopefully, we will be able to say, "I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments."

The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here.