104 Best Happiness Quotes

You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art.

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.

The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get.

Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasis from truth and beauty to comfort and happiness.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't.

That is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected.

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he is cold, and his clothes are torn, and he is ashamed, but he is not unhappy.

In order to obtain a pleasure, one must first be convinced that it is important, and so one must deceive oneself.

Levin had been married three months. He was happy, but not at all in the way he had expected.

Every time she went to a ball, she promised herself to enjoy it thoroughly, and was cross with the world and with herself for the disillusionment she invariably felt afterwards.

Laughter is sunshine; it chases winter from the human face.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

I have never searched for happiness. Who wants happiness? I have searched for pleasure. – Lord Henry

I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.

We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.

That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.

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

A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future. – Albert Einstein

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

Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more… to give way to the happiness of the person you love.

Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. – Albus Dumbledore

But you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. – Albus Dumbledore

Do you know what the happiest animal on Earth is? It’s a goldfish. You know why? It’s got a 10-second memory. – Ted Lasso

You know, the happiest animal in the world is a goldfish. Y’know why? Got a ten-second memory. – Ted Lasso

I know they're happy, 'cause I can hear them laughing.

Life is an endless series of train wrecks with only brief, commercial-like breaks of happiness. – Deadpool

I could die right now, Clem. I'm just... happy. I've never felt that before. I'm just exactly where I want to be. – Joel

I'm happy now because I love you. – Phil Connors

Whatever happens tomorrow, or for the rest of my life, I'm happy now. – Phil Connors

I think we ought to live happily ever after. – Sophie

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

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have. – Socrates

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less. – Socrates

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. – Marcus Aurelius

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. – Helen Keller

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. – Abraham Maslow

The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy. – Abraham Maslow

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. – Aristotle

The purpose of our lives is to be happy. – Dalai Lama

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions. – Dalai Lama

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. – Dalai Lama

I have been at probably every powerful table that you can think of, I have worked at nonprofits, I have been at foundations, I have worked in corporations, served on corporate boards, I have been at G-summits, and I can tell you that without exception, the people I have met who are the most successful and happy, they are the ones who have a full, well-rounded life. – Michelle Obama

I’m happy with who I am and what I’ve become. I’m not satisfied, but I’m happy. – LeBron James

Don’t work for money. It will wear out fast, or you’ll never make enough and you will never be happy. – Tim Cook