Best Finding Happiness Quotes

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

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

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one’s time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

You will find only what you bring in.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

You don’t find happiness, you make happiness.

You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you… happiness is your natural state.

I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. For I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Every life is good. This [luxury] doesn’t make life. It’s a lifestyle. It’s a style of life. Style is what you are, but everybody has life. And everybody’s life should be good. Some of the happiest people in the world have nothing. Nothing. And they find happiness in being in the world. They wear the world with a smile.

You can search high & low to find happiness on earth, yet unless you love yourself, you will never find your true belonging.

I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

You can search the world over, but you won’t find happiness until you realize that happiness
isn’t getting what you want. It’s being content with what you already have.

If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary people do to find happiness, what they struggle for, rushing about apparently unable to stop.

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

When I look at what the world does and where people nowadays believe they can find happiness, I am not sure that that is true happiness. The happiness of these ordinary people seems to consist in slavishly imitating the majority, as if this were their only choice. And yet they all believe they are happy. I cannot decide whether that is happiness or not. Is there such a thing as happiness?

Another car is not going to help me out, a nicer car, I’ve already got it. A bigger house ain’t gonna do anything for me, and you know, a yacht, it’s not going to do anything for me anymore. So how can I find happiness?