Happiness Quotes

Share inspiring quotes about happiness to friends. A quote on happiness can help light up a friend's life and the world around both of you.

• "There is no need to search for happiness or to create it. There is no need to undergo all kinds of external experiences in order to enjoy it. It is always here, deep within your soul."
  -- Remez Sasson

Happiness quotes and sayings are vitamins to the soul. Share these quotes on happiness to friends. Help them draw out their inner joy. A friend's happiness is contagious and we get to share in it.

Happiness Quotes and Sayings

• "Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have."
  -- Rabbi H. Schachtel
   
• "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet."
  -- James Oppenheim
   
• "In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy."
  -- David Steindl-Rast
   
• "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
   
• "Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable."
  -- Leo C. Rosten
   
• "It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
  -- Agnes Repplier
   
• "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
  -- Mohandas Gandhi
   
• "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
  -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
   
• "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
   
• "Getting what you go after is success; but liking it while you are getting it is happiness."
  -- Bertha Damon
   
• "Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
  -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
   
• "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 month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else."
  -- Chinese proverb

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