Happy Quotes
Misery is almost always the result of thinking. ~Joseph Joubert
Be happy. It's one way of being wise. ~Colette
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ~Anton Chekhov
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ~Douglas Jerrold
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. ~Don Herold
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. ~Georges Duhamel
The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid. ~J.D. Salinger
The only time I was truly happy was as a child, before I knew what happiness was - or wasn't. ~D.H. Mondfleur
Happiness is a function of accepting what is. ~Werner Erhard
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
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. ~John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1863
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~Joseph Addison
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. ~Samuel Johnson
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. ~Freya Stark, The Journey's Echo
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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
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
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960