Quotes on Happiness - How to Find Happiness

What makes for a happy life? To discover the wisdom of poets, philosophers and sages, read our collection of happiness quotes below or submit your own. Make sure to cite the author. Since we encourage you to pay it forward by inspiring others, be sure to reveal how you have applied this bit of wisdom to your life and how it haschanged you or helped you create a better life. You can even upload a photo (of you on the happiest moment of your life) or embed a short video.

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Doing good is the greatest happiness.

~ Chinese Proverb

I define happiness as a continuous, creative
activity.

~ Baba Amte

There's just no accounting for happiness,
or the way it turns up like a prodigal
who comes back to the dust at your feet.

~ Jane Kenyon

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My Favorite Happiness Quote of All Time  Not rated yet
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Happiness & Fulfillment Quote  Not rated yet
I'm fulfilled in what I do...I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes—the finer things in life—would make you happy. My happiness is to be filled ...

Happiness Self Help Quote  Not rated yet
Happiness depends ...
Less on exterior things than most suppose.

~ William Cowper

If most people could get their minds around this happiness self ...

Famous Quotes Happiness  Not rated yet
Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

~ Thomas Jefferson
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Why go further and further,
Look, happiness is right here.

~ Goethe

What I have been trying to show you in this section of my web site is that ...

Quote about Happiness  Not rated yet
I wake up every moment with a great desire to live joyfully.

~ Alexandra Stoddard


Some people have this desire of their nature, while most of us ...

Happiness Self Help Quotes  Not rated yet
And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the ...

Happiness Self help Quotes  Not rated yet
True happiness is an acceptance of life as it is given to us, with its diminishment, mystery, uncontrollability, and all.

~ Michael Gellert

If you'...

Pursuit of Happiness Quotes  Not rated yet
There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

~ Joyce Grenfell

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that ...

Quote Happiness  Not rated yet
No one can arrange another's happiness.
~ Graham Greene

Although this quote on happiness seems simple, it is actually quite profound. You cannot make ...

Inspirational Quotes on Happiness  Not rated yet
No matter what you are doing, keep the undercurrent of happiness. Learn to be secretly happy within your heart in spite of all circumstances.

~ Paramahansa ...

Quote on Happiness from the Dalai Lama  Not rated yet
Happiness is not something ready made... It comes from your own actions."

~ Dalai Lama

I love this quote on happiness because it reminds me
that ...

Quotes Happiness  Not rated yet
There is a need to discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.

~ Barbara Lazear ...

Quote on Joy  Not rated yet
'Joy is
so special a thing, vivid--'
her love for the earth returns,
her heart lightens..."

~ Denise Levertov

This quote on joy beautifully ...

Quotes of Happiness  Not rated yet
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature ...

Quotes About Happiness  Not rated yet
Do you think there is anywhere, in any language,
a word billowing enough
for the pleasure
that fills you,
as the sun
reaches out,as it warms you....