Best Life Happiness Quotes

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

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.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

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.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

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.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

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

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

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

If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

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

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside

The affirmation of one’s own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one’s capacity to love.

Look, there’s nothing wrong with people being happy, but there’s more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel’s Bolero.

If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you’re not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. 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.

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine, and its greatest support comes from our not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort, to make work as near pleasure as it can be.

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.