Quotations on Happiness

Collected by: "Optimanage.com" Team


   
  "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."
Marcus Aurelius
   
   
  "Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."
Thomas Jefferson
   
   
  "I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
Groucho Marx
   
   
  "Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony."
Mahatma Gandhi
   
   
  "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln
   
   
  "Joy is a prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
Mother Teresa
   
   
  "Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony."
Thomas Merton
   
   
  "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
Dalai Lama
   
   
  "Happiness doesn’t depend on external conditions; it is governed by our mental attitude."
Dale Carnegie
   
   
  "Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it."
Bertrand Meltzer
   
   
  "True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
Helen Keller
   
   
  "The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."
Benjamin Franklin
   
   
  "The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."
Henry Ward Beecher
   
   
  "It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness."
Thomas Jefferson
   
 
  "Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
Robert Frost
 
 
  "Happiness can exist only in acceptance."
George Orwell
 
 
  "There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
Epictetus
 
 
  "Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them."
Albert Camus
 
 
  "You can be happy where you are."
Joel Osteen
 
 
  "Anything you are good at contributes to happiness."
Bertrand Russell
 
 
  "Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."
Omar Khayyam