Inspirational Quotes

 On Happiness

Follow your bliss.
-Joseph Campbell-

You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places.
But the spring of joy is in your heart.
The haven of peace is in yourself.
-Satya Sai Baba-

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
-Burton Hills-

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-

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

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
So practice happy thinking every day.
Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit,
and life will become a continual feast.
-Norman Vincent Peale-

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt-

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

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are
different from the things we do.
-Freya Stark-

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors
we don't even remember leaving open.
-Rose Wilder Lane-

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
It's what sunflowers do.
-Helen Keller-

Smile, it increases your face value.
-Dolly Parton-

Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road,
not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.
-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj-

If mind is at the service of the heart, wonderful things result.
If the heart's at the service of mind, oh my gosh, terrible things can result.
-Stuart Lichtman-

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the
fog that surrounds us.
-Henri Matisse-

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

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
-Martha Washington-

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled.
The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the Beautiful Stuff out.
-Ray Bradbury-

The place to be happy is here, the time to be happy is now.
-Robert Ingersoll-

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

Happiness is an attitude of mind,
born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
-J. Donald Walters-

May you live all the days of your life.
-Jonathan Swift-

Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
-Henry David Thoreau-

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
-William Makepeace Thackeray-

Turn around, and you will see that happiness is the shadow right behind you.
-Felipe Villaespesa-

Most of our happiness depends on our disposition not on circumstances.
-Martha Washington-

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
-Bernard Meltzer-

I must accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
-Margaret Lee Runbeck-

If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy,
you will seldom be disappointed.
-Brian Tracy-

I do not know what path in life you will take, but I do know this:
If, on that path, you do not find a way to serve, you will never be happy.
-Albert Schweitzer-

Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves.
It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire.
Happiness is something we are.
-John B Sheerin-

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being,
then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
-Abraham H Maslow-

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness
or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
-Martha Washington-

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
-Lady Marguerite Blessington-

Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes-

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you,
whereas joy arises from within.
-Eckhart Tolle-