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Quotes About Happiness

You should really stop worrying, develop the real wish to live and with a good motivation, [such as] "I have a better life and I can put that life at the benefit of others."
~ Matthieu Ricard
If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.
~ Norman Douglas
Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.
~ Oprah Winfrey
If you want to be happy in life, keep all of your commitments and don't expect other people to keep any of theirs.
~ Roger Delano Hinkins
I feel like I should be able to be 18 and have the friends that I choose and to have fun and live my life.
~ Selena Gomez
I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.
~ Tom Ford
I just live life on my own terms. And I smile a lot.
~ Tyler Florence
I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that, life is actually pretty good.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.
~ William Lyon Phelps
Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly. This life is most jolly.
~ William Shakespeare
I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.
~ Yogi Berra
To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.
~ Gautama Buddha
I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.
~ Geezer Butler
Life is so good, and it gets better every day.
~ George Dawson
We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.
~ George Washington
In real life, people don't try to live dramatically, people try to live in a light way. People try to laugh.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin
So maybe that's what the difference is, is that when you intend to be happy, then you figure out ways to sustain your happiness or your ability to feel moments of joy in your life.
~ Goldie Hawn
Don't be gloomy. Even if you are not happy, put a smile on your face. [Life is about] joy,... something to be happy and excited about.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
We should enjoy and make the most of life
~ Greg Graffin
May your life be crowded with unexpected joys.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.
~ Hector Hugh Munro
I feel as though my life is bathed in golden sunlight. And the really wonderful thing is that I know it.
~ Helen McCrory