Best True Happiness Quotes

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

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

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.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

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.

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

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

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

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

You may think that if someone else doesn’t change, you can never be happy. But if you change, you can be happy no matter what.

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

For true happiness, it is not enough to be successful oneself . . . one’s friends must fail.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.

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

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.

Realize that true happiness lies within you.

If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.

The secret to true happiness is low expectations and insensitivity.

Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

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?

It’s enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

Live life and take chances. Believe that everything happens for a reason and don’t regret. Love to the fullest and you will find true happiness in life. Realize that things go wrong and people change, but things do go on. Sometimes things weren’t meant to be. What is supposed to happen will work its way out.

Personally, I am enthusiastic about the future. You can be too. You are living in the most exciting period of time in history. Many reasons could be cited for that optimism. Yet your greatest source of hope and assurance is that you have the fulness of the teachings of the Master. They will show you how to live a good life. You can receive ordinances and covenants that when righteously lived assure true happiness and significant attainment.

True refuge is that which allows us to be at home, at peace, to discover true happiness. The only thing that can give us true refuge is the awareness and love that is intrinsic to who we are. Ultimately, its our own true nature.

That which gives us true freedom and true happiness is the compassionate love of Christ.

In fact, there is only one true and holy religion, founded and instituted by Christ Our Lord. Mother and Nurse of the virtues, Destroyer of vice, Liberator of souls, Guide to true happiness, she is called Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman.

When one lives attached to money, pride or power, it is impossible to be truly happy.

If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source of true happiness and joy. Faith does not run counter to your highest ideals; on the contrary, it elevates and perfects those ideals. Dear young people, do not be satisfied with anything less than Truth and Love, do not be content with anything less than Christ.

True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.