21 Happiness Quotes
Since I have decided to be happy no matter what life may bring my way, I have been much happier than I could have imagine. Life has been great and I do wish everyone all the happiness in the world.
Here are 21 happiness quotes that will give you some insights as to the meaning and the attainment of happiness.
- The first step toward happiness is to determine to be happy.
— George Hodges. - If a man is unhappy, this must be his own fault ; for God made all men to be happy.
— Epictetus. - Happiness is one of the greatest things in the world, and joy is indispensable to any or every high state of attainment. Therefore, whoever can produce happiness or give entertainment is doing a work that is equal in every respect to any of the so-called great works in human life.
— Christian D. Larson. - Happiness must not be left too much to outside conditions. The ultimate result of life will be ourselves;nothing more nor less. It is, after all, what we are that largely makes for contentment.
— Henry D. Chapin. - This instinct for happiness is as deeply imbedded in man’s nature as the instinct of life itself.
—Newell Dwight Hillis. - Write it in your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson. - He who has done the best he can, has a right to be as happy in the hope of ultimate triumph as though he was already enthroned amidst that triumph.
— Newell D wight Hillis. - Happiness is an interior matter, an attitude toward life, depending on the individual soul.
— George Hodges. - Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please. (Human Life.)
— Rogers. - To believe and go forward is the key to success and to happiness.
— Lilian Whiting. - Our happiness as human beings, generally speaking, will be found to be very much in proportion to the number of things we Move, and the number of things that love us.
— Samuel Smiles. - Happiness is the result of God’s will for us, and not of our will for ourselves; and so we can only find it by giving our lives up, in submission and obedience, to the control of God.
— Henry van Dyke. - Happiness depends on helpfulness as health depends on air and food —because we are made that way.
—George Hodges. - If one would be happy, let him forget himself and go about making some one else happy.
— Lilian Whiting. - Probably the most lasting source of happiness is found in unselfish love. This keeps alive a constant interest in those who are the objects of affection, which, in turn, is naturally reflected into the relations of life.
— Henry D. Chapin. - Happiness, let us admit, is not a relative thing, as pleasure is, but a positive condition of the spirit regardless of surroundings, a fundamental state of being in which normal personality finds the justification and value of life.
— Bliss Carman. - The more liberal the sympathy, the more is the interest of life extended; and the more extended one’s range of interests, the more does one multiply the means and resources of happiness.
— Lilian Whiting. - The best way to secure future happiness IS to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.
— Charles William Eliot. - What ripeness is to the orange, what sweet song is to the lark, what culture and refinement are to the intellect, that happiness is to man.
— Newell Dwight Htllis. - Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.
— Sir P. Sidney. - The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
— Henry Ward Beecher.
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