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