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Quotes About Happiness

The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
~ William Lyon Phelps
Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.
~ James Altucher
She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
~ Gail Parent
Happiness, laughter and joy abound, when friends, family, and lovers are around.
~ Amy Davis
The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.
~ Gautama Buddha
Happiness is the result of an attitude of mind. I believe you can build it out of small things.
~ Miss Read
Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.
~ Theodor Adorno
Happiness does not exist as an isolated quality, nor does it conform to a single fixed pattern. Happiness is something that breathes and lives in the relationships between one person and another.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Meditation is the journey to happiness.
~ Frederick Lenz
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.
~ Georges Bataille
Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Some people pursue unhappiness because happiness is too mild a sensation.
~ Coco Chanel
God's favour is happiness.
~ Matthew Henry
Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.
~ George Zimmerman
When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
~ Yakov Smirnoff
A disciplined mind brings happiness.
~ Gautama Buddha
You've gotta do things that make you happy.
~ Jennifer Lopez
I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
~ Dalai Lama
When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.
~ Philibert Joseph Roux
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.
~ Anton Chekhov
It is in the expectations of happiness that much of happiness itself is found. And it takes courage to expect happiness.
~ Earl Nightingale
Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.
~ Jack Vance