Quotes about joy and happiness
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions. – Dalai Lama
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. – Christopher McCandless
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. – E. E. Cummings
Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them. – Steve Maraboli
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. – Chuck Palahniuk
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed. – Unknown
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. – Mark Twain
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. – James Matthew Barrie
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. – William Saroyan
The greatest joy in life is to love and be loved in return. – Unknown
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Gandhi
The purpose of our lives is to be happy. – Dalai Lama
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. – Henri J.M. Nouwen
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius
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
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. – Ashley Montagu
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. – Marcus Aurelius
Happiness is a direction, not a place. – Sydney J. Harris
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not. – Valerie Bertinelli
If you want to be happy, be. – Leo Tolstoy
The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give. – Oprah Winfrey
Happiness is not a destination, it’s a way of life. – Unknown
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness is a warm puppy. – Charles M. Schulz
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have. – Unknown
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. – W.P. Kinsella
The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage. – Thucydides
The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters. – Genghis Khan
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment. – Tony Robbins
Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things. – Walt Disney
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
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. – Pericles
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. – Jim Rohn
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. – Thomas Merton
The key to happiness is to appreciate what you have. If it’s not what you want, then want what you have. – Unknown
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. – Dalai Lama
The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything. – Unknown
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius
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
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. – William Saroyan
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. – Marcus Aurelius
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. – Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. – Eleanor Roosevelt