Quotes About Happiness

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

If you want to be popular, preach happiness. If you want to be unpopular, preach holiness.

Don't let anyone drain you of your happiness today. Be drama free. Rise above the petty stuff.

Happiness, I have grasped, is a destination, like strawberry Fields. Once you find the way in, there you are, and you'll never feel low again.

Happiness is open to all, since, when you boil it down, it merely consists of contentment with what you have got and doing what you can for other people.

Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

When I tune into my beautiful self, I get happiness. Everything in the universe belongs to me.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world.

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you're in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

Popularity is when other people like you. Happiness is when you like yourself.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.

Original, in French: La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur. English: Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.