Being Happy Quotes: Happiness Sayings

We all wish to be happy all the time, while it may not be possible, we can surely try to be happy most of the time. Happiness will be doubled if you share it, hence I am sharing some of the inspirational and motivational quotes by famous wise people to inspire us to be bit more happy today! Smile and hug someone you love today.

No one in this world can dictate you where you can be HAPPY, but only yourself because true happiness comes from within and not from anyone else. -Unknown

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. -Thomas Jefferson early draft for the Declaration of Independence (June 1776)

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
– George Sand

I shall take the heart… for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.
-The Tinman in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.
– Lord Byron

Most people measure their happiness in terms of physical pleasure and material possession. Could they win some visible goal which they have set on the horizon, how happy they could be! Lacking this gift or that circumstance, they would be miserable. If happiness is to be so measured, I who cannot hear or see have every reason to sit in a corner with folded hands and weep. If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life, — if, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
-Helen Keller in Optimism

Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead.
– Scottish Proverb

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
-George Santayana in The Life of Reason

Every now and then, when the world sits just right, a gentle breath of heaven fills my soul with delight.
– Hazelmarie Elliott

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-Helen Keller The Simplest Way to be Happy

Happiness is a direction, not a place.
– Sydney J. Harris

In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.
-Santa Claus in The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For this one transcendent good.
– Amy Lowell

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.
-Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy.
– Eric Hoffer

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.
-Elizabeth Gilbert in w:Eat, Pray, Love

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
– Mark Twain

Happiness is possible only in a relationship with a partner. Imagine that some fellow who has lived his life as a singer goes to an uninhabited island and sings as loudly as possible. If there is no one there to hear him, he will not be happy. To realize that we exist for the sake of others is the great achievement that changes our lives. When we realize that our life is not ours alone but is meant to be for the sake of the other, we begin to follow a path different from the one we were on. Just as singing to yourself will not make you happy, there is no joy without a partner. Even the smallest and most trivial thing can bring you happiness when you do it for another.

-Sun Myung Moon, 2009

Happiness Books To Read:

Happy: Simple Steps to Get the Most Out of Life
Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out
100 Simple Secrets of Happy People, The: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It

There are many how to be happy books that also helps worrier like myself. Check out for yourself here.

Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.
– Robert Anthony

There is something better for us in the world than happiness. We will take happiness as the incident of this, gladly and gratefully. We will add a thousand fold to the happiness of the present in the fearlessness of the future which it brings; but we will not place happiness first, and thus cloud our heads with doubts, and fill our hearts with discontent. In the blackest soils ‘grow the richest flowers, and the loftiest and strongest trees spring heavenward among the rocks.
-Josiah Gilbert Holland

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
– Sophocles

Happiness does not depend on the size or content of a goal, but on the strength of the desire to have it.
-Simon Soloveychik, Parenting for Everyone

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.
– James M. Barrie

There is something better for us in the world than happiness. We will take happiness as the incident of this, gladly and gratefully. We will add a thousand fold to the happiness of the present in the fearlessness of the future which it brings; but we will not place happiness first, and thus cloud our heads with doubts, and fill our hearts with discontent. In the blackest soils ‘grow the richest flowers, and the loftiest and strongest trees spring heavenward among the rocks.
-Josiah Gilbert Holland

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by product.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is neither within us nor without us, it is the union of ourselves with God.
-Blaise Pascal

It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
– Berke Breathed

Happiness is not the end of duty, it is a constituent of it. It is in it and of it; not an equivalent, but an element.
-Henry Giles

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
– Booth Tarkington

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.
-Jane Porter

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
– Mark Twain

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
– Buddha

Finding Happiness: Happiness Quotes

Finding happiness is something we are all looking for. Finding happiness does not have to hard for many of us. I am sure these quotes will inspire you as it has inspired me.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.- Francis Bacon

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.- George Santayana

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes- Andrew Carnegie

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared – Buddha

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.  -Jacques Prévert

If you want to be happy, be.  –Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.  -Palmer Sondreal

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys.  If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.  -Fyodor Dostoevsky

What a wonderful life I’ve had!  I only wish I’d realized it sooner.  -Colette

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.  –Edith Wharton

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.  –Cynthia Nelms

It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness.  Poverty and wealth have both failed.  –Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.  –James Openheim

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.  –John Barrymore

The happy have whole days,
and those they choose.
The unhappy have but hours,
and those they lose.
-Colley Cibber

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right? – Charles Schulz

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.  The way it actually works is the reverse.  You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.  –Margaret Young

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.– Carl Jung

There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.- Thomas Jefferson

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy. – Eric Hoffer

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.- James Oppenheim

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. – Mark Twain

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony- Mohandas K. Gandhi