Quotes on Happiness - and Life

Everyone loves a pertinent quote. There are plenty of quotes on happiness. Some people just have a knack of saying the right thing. It is always good to remember a suitable or favourite quote when you:-

• write an article
• send a greeting card
• email a message
• uplift or motivate a friend or colleague
• create albums and scrapbooking projects

My personal favourites are right here and I will add to the as I find more. And click on the link to read my favourite ...pet quotes / quotes about pets.

Favourite Quotes on Happiness

Finding joy in life isn't always effortless, but it is entirely possible. Because happiness doesn't always happen by luck or chance, intentionally pursuing it may be the best way to attain it.
Dr. Rallie McAllister - Family Physician and Author

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

Happiness as opposed to pleasure, is a life well-lived, one that honours the important, not just the urgent.
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

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

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did, who her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
Josh Billings

People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.
Sydney J. Harris

The gift of happiness belongs to those who unwrap it.
Andrew Dunbar

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

The meaning of happiness is whatever you want it to be.

(Photo: PERU)
Waiting for Happiness?
Perhaps!
Sadly, having climbed to the top of Waynu Picchu, the legendary Macchu Picchu is concealed under dense cloud.

More Quotes on happiness.

The strength and happiness of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going that way too.
Henry Ward Beecher

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
Sigmund Freud

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 been opened for us.
Helen Keller

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert Camus

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Quotes on Happiness, Happiness Quotes.

The fact that our happiness depends upon our relationship with ourself, leads to an important conclusion: that we alone are responsible for our happiness. Nobody else can make us happy and fulfilled. Only we can decide how we view our lives, and how we choose to respond to all the events in our lives.
Theun Mares - author and teacher of personal growth.

Finding joy in life isn't always effortless, but it is entirely possible. Because happiness doesn't always happen by luck or chance, intentionally pursuing it may be the best way to attain it.
Dr. Rallie McAllister - Family Physician and Author

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
John Dryden

I always wanted a happy ending...Now i've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some storeis don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
Gilda Radner

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy,in whatever situation I may be: for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
Martha Washington

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

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

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley

When someone does good, applaud!. You will make two people happy.
Samuel Goldwyn

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grow old.
Franz Kafka

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Quotes on Happiness, Personal Growth and Change.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Gail Sheehy

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... It's about learning to dance in the rain.
Author unknown

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill

Sadness is a note in the scale of joy. Regret has to do with then. It is out of time. Because regret is something you are powerless to affect, you hold on to it, as if by grasping, holding, you could change what you cannot. You must accept that which you cannot change.
LNO. Angelic channel. 'Ask your Angels' by Alma Daniel, Timothy Wyllie & Andrew Raymer

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mohandas Gandhi

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Maxim Gorky

Ask yourself: What are your favourite Quotes on Happiness and Why?
Remember not to keep them to yourself....pass on a little happiness to others too.

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