Quotes About Happiness

You have to take an active role in making yourself happy. That's why I say happiness is a choice. Because you have to choose it.

I always thought that if I ever got good reviews I'd be happy. It's so empty. It's never what I wanted, ever. All I wanted was just what everybody else wants - to be loved.

We don't have to wait for the right circumstances to have happiness.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

Happiness isn't some elusive treasure we chase after. It's a state of being we need to PRACTICE.

There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.

That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least.

I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.

Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory.

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness!

If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

We're born to be happy, all of us.

Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun, joy and happiness. This is my gift.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

Whenever you notice your thoughts detour into attack mode, say out loud or to yourself: Happiness is a choice I make.