Top 25 Happiness Quotations

  • "There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all."
    --Anonymous

  • "Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."
    -- Mildred Barthel

  • "Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
    -- Ingrid Bergman

  • "Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving; make every day a holiday and celebrate just living."
    -- Amanda Bradley

  • "People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
    -- H. Jackson Browne

  • "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

  • "Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it."
    --Mary Baker Eddy

  • "Being happy is something you have to learn. I often surprise myself by saying "Wow, this is it." I guess I'm happy. I got a home I love. A career that I love. I'm even feeling more and more at peace with myself. If there's something else to happiness, let me know. I'm ambitious for that, too."
    --Harrison Ford

  • "We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same."
    -- Anne Frank

  • "Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one."
    -- Benjamin Franklin

  • "Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
    -- Robert Frost

  • "Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get."
    -- Dave Gardner

  • "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
    -- Helen Keller

  • " My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy."
    -- Holly Ketchel

  • "Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open."
    --Rose Lane

  • " People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
    -- Abraham Lincoln

  • " Happiness.it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."
    --Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • "Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead."
    -- Scottish Proverb

  • "The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it."
    -- C.P. Snow

  • "Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness."
    -- Sophocles

  • "Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and lose it."
    -- Mark Twain

  • "The surest way to happiness is to lose yourself in a cause greater than yourself."
    -- Unknown

  • "I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."
    --Martha Washington

  • "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
    -- Oscar Wilde

  • "No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness."
    -- Mary Wollstonecraft

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