Quotes for Happiness

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

Victor Hugo

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Louis D. Brandeis

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Dalai Lama

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

Dennis Prager

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

C. S. Lewis

We've all met those who seem to radiate happiness. They seem to smile more than others; they laugh more than others - just being around them makes us happier as well.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Napoleon Hill

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Buddha

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 is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

Everyone smiles in the same language.

Unknown

The day always looks brighter from behind a smile.

Unknown

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.

Buddha

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

Rollo May

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Hermann Hesse

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.