Feel Good quotes about happiness

Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.– Colette

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.– Abraham Lincoln

Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.– Alain De Botton

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.– Alan Cohen

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.– Albert Camus

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.– Albert Einstein

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

I have only two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy.– Allen J. Lefferdink

People should find happiness in the little things, like family.– Amanda Bynes

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.– Andrew Carnegie

As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.– Andrew Delbanco

Whoever is happy will make others happy.– Anne Frank

Happiness depends upon ourselves.– Aristotle

Happy girls are the prettiest.– Audrey Hepburn

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.– Ayn Rand

Family, friends, a good laugh and beautiful weather are the best cures.– Bar Refaeli

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.– Baruch Spinoza

Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.– Benjamin Franklin

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.– Bernard de Fontenelle

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.– Bertrand Russell

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.– Buddha

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.– Carl Jung

The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.– Carrie Jones

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.– Channing Pollock, Mr. Moneypenny

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.– Charles Spurgeon

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.– Charlotte Bronte

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.– Chinese proverb

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.– Chuck Palahniuk

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.– Cynthia Nelms

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

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 it.– Dale Carnegie

People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat – that’s the only moral they know.– Dany Laferrière

We can’t control the world. We can only (barely) control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement.– David C. Hill

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.– Denis Waitley

I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success.– Diego Val

Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends.– Divyanka Tripathi

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.– Don Marquis

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.– Doug Larson

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

Happiness is always the serendipitous result of looking for something else.– Dr. Idel Dreimer

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.– E.L. Konigsburg

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.– Earl Nightingale

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.– Edith Wharton

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.– Eleanor Roosevelt

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.– Epictetus

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.– Eric Hoffer

My family didn’t have a lot of money, and I’m grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.– Evangeline Lilly

Happiness is a place between too much and too little.– Finnish proverb

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.– Franklin D. Roosevelt

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.– Frederick Keonig

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.– Freya Stark

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.– Gabriel García Márquez

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.– George Bernard Shaw

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.– George Burns

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.– George Sand

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now.– Gerald Jampolsky

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.– Gretta Brooker Palmer

Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.– Guillaume Apollinaire

Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking.– H.W. Byles

Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.– Hazelmarie Elliott

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.– Helen Keller

You can only have bliss if you don’t chase it.– Henepola Gunaratana

Happiness is a form of courage.– Holbrook Jackson

All happiness depends on courage and work.– Honoré de Balzac

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.– Hosea Ballou

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?– Hunter S. Thompson

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.– Immanuel Kant

Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.– Iris Murdoch

Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.– J. Petit Senn

Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy.– J.M. Reinoso

Real happiness is not of temporary enjoyment, but is so interwoven with the future that it blesses for ever.– James Lendall Basford

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.– James Oppenheim

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.– Jane Austen

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own.– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.– John Stuart Mill

Happiness is only real when shared.– Jon Krakauer

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.– Jonathan Safran Foer

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

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.– Joseph Roux

It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.– L.M. Montgomery

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.– Lady Blessington

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.– Lao Tzu

You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes.– Lauren Oliver

If you want to be happy, be.– Leo Tolstoy

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy?– Leslie Caron

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.– Logan Pearsall Smith

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.– Mahatma Gandhi

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.– Marcel Proust

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.– Marcus Aurelius

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.– Marcus Aurelius

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.– Margaret Lee Runbeck

Happiness is a constant work-in-progress, because solving problems is a constant work-in-progress – the solutions to today’s problems will lay the foundation for tomorrow’s problems, and so on. True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving.– Mark Manson

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.– Mark Twain

In my life I’ve learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we’re all searching for. I haven’t come across anyone who didn’t become a better person through love.– Marla Gibbs

Happiness is a well-balanced combination of love, labour, and luck.– Mary Wilson Little

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.– Maxim Gorky

Ups and downs. Victories and defeats. Sadness and happiness. That’s the best kind of life.– Maxime Lagacé

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.– Mignon McLaughlin

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.– Mildred Barthel

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.– Mother Teresa

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.– Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is the default state. It’s what’s there when you remove the sense that something is missing in life.– Naval Ravikant

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.– Norm Papernick

Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other.– Norman Bradburn

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.– Omar Khayyam

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.– Orhan Pamuk

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.– Pat Conroy

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.– Phillips Brooks

It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness.– Richard Branson

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.– Robert A. Heinlein

Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.– Robert Anthony

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.– Robert Brault

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.– Robert Frost

Happiness is the experience of loving life. Being happy is being in love with that momentary experience. And love is looking at someone or even something and seeing the absolute best in him/her or it. Love is happiness with what you see. So love and happiness really are the same thing…just expressed differently.– Robert McPhillips

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.– Robert S. Lynd

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.– Robertson Davies

Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.– Roy T. Bennett

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.– Samuel Johnson

The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment.– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.– Sri Chinmoy

Sometimes life knocks you on your ass… get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.– Steve Maraboli

Happiness is a direction, not a place.– Sydney J. Harris

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.– Taisen Deshimaru

There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way.– Thich Nhat Hanh

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.– Thomas Jefferson

We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.– Thomas Merton

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.– Tony Robbins

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.– V.S. Pritchett

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.– Victor Hugo

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day.– W. Beran Wolfe

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.– Walter Savage Landor

Happiness is a function of accepting what is.– Werner Erhard

Happiness is an inside job.– William Arthur Ward

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.– William Feather

The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.– William Morris

On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.– William R. Inge

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.– William Saroyan