Happiness Quotes and Sayings

Inspirational Thoughts and Encouragement

Happiness quotes and saying provide some of the most positive inspiration you can have. Why? Well, we all want to be happy. Fortunately, there are many words of wisdom and encouragement that provide the right formula for how to achieve this wanted state. Best of all, inspirational quotes and thoughts can help you avoid mistakes and detours so you can experience happiness that much sooner.

Because you shouldn't take your own happiness for granted, I sincerely hope you enjoy these happiness quotes that are specifically selected for you. Always remember, you have the power to experience as much happiness as you desire. Believe it!

Happiness Quotes and Sayings

To win one's joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy. ~ Andre Gide

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. ~ Happiness Quotes by Johann von Goethe

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. ~ Storm Jameson

Have a variety of interest. These interest relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interest live, not only longest, but happiest. ~ George Matthew Allen

I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends and a spouse and children to share life's beauty with you. ~ Happiness Sayings by J. Kenfield Morley

Practice easing your way along. Don't get het up or in a dither. Do your best; take it as it comes. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor. ~ Smiley Blanton

Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them. ~ Peter Cook

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come. ~ Happiness Quotes by Dalai Lama

Happiness Quotes and Sayings

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. ~ Jacques Prévert

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. ~ Happiness Quotes by John Barrymore

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ~ Douglas Jerrold

You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working for the wrong thing. ~ Peace Pilgrim

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. ~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable. ~ Anonymous

The happiness of life is made up of minutes fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling. ~ Happiness Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The little things are infinitely the most important. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. ~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

Happiness does not depend on outwards things, but on the way we see them. ~ Leo Tolstoy

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past. ~ Andre Maurois

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