Embark on a quest for joy and contentment with our collection of the top 100 "Finding Happiness Quotes" of all time. These quotes unravel the nuances of happiness, guiding us to appreciate life's simple pleasures and discover the keys to lasting well-being. Let these words inspire you to seek and savor the moments that truly bring joy.
"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."
"Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed."
"To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others."
"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us."
"It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about."
"It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy."
"Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering."
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."
"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
"Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy."
"To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness."
"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality."
"Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results."
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
"The only joy in the world is to begin."
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
"Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon."
"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
"There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them."
"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."
"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 that has been opened for us."
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
"It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it."
"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be."
"If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world."
"The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight."
"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."
"Happiness is acceptance."
"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."
"Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy."
"The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others."
"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.+"
"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"
"Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness."
"Happiness is a state of activity."
"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."
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
"Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change."
"When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened."
"Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it."
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
"I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy."
"Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object."
"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
"Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open."
"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."
"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
"Just because it didn’t last forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while."
"Your work is discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it."
"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."
"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living."
"If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires."
"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it."
"Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic."
"And remember, no matter where you go, there you are."
"If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy."
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
"Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness."
"The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past."
"The grass is always greener where you water it."
"Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another."
"On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do."
"The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life."
"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
"We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy."
"A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life."
"Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you."
"I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives."
"Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be."
"Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation."
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
"Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections."
"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine."
"Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy."
"There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons."
"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life."
"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."
"Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called “All the Things That Could Go Wrong."
"A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness."
"There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
"There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less."
"Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man."
"Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are."
"So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?"
"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."
"Happiness is not doing fun things. Happiness is doing meaningful things."
"Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free."
"I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else."
"Happiness does not lead to gratitude. Gratitude leads to happiness."
"It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness."
