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Quotes About Happiness

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.
~ Ricky Williams
America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.
~ Quentin Crisp
...they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.
~ Laini Taylor
To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.
~ Virginia Woolf
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
~ A. C. Benson
It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.
~ Walker Percy
Basically, a human being is a social animal. So, if you create some short moment of happiness for people, you get deep satisfaction.
~ Dalai Lama
Albums that remind me of my childhood happiness make me incredibly sad now.
~ Mindy Kaling
Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.
~ John Milton
Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.
~ Greg Egan
With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become hooked to that cause it pain.
~ Frederick Lenz
Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn't. You're either tied down or you're not.
~ Paula McLain
Happiness is the best adventure on earth.
~ Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.
~ Margaret Oliphant
Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.
~ Jane Hirshfield
Happiness is the cessation of suffering.
~ Nhat Hanh
It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.
~ Jean Ingelow
our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.
~ Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
And happiness is always louder than sadness.
~ Deborah Harkness
I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC.
~ Adrian Grenier
Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that it's hard to tell them apart.
~ Carol Plum-Ucci
Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind.
~ Dalai Lama
Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it.
~ Cathie Pelletier