Happiness Quotations

Following are some of my favorite quotations relating to Happiness (which may hopefully help you find some laughter/happiness :) -

HAPPINESS QUOTATIONS

 

 

 

Nothing is worth more than this day – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have- so spend it wisely – Kay Lyons

The sense of existence is the greatest happiness – Benjamin Disraeli

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Earth’s crammed with Heaven – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love and Joy are twins, or born of each other – Willaim Hazlitt

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will – Epictetus

Happiness is in the comfortable companionship of friends – Pam Brown.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have someone to divide it with          – Mark Twain

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. – Ashley Montagu

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy – Joyce Grenfell

Happiness is rarely a reward,  More often a totally unexpected gift – Pam Brown

Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open – John Barrymore

If you want to be happy, be – Leo Tolstoy

To fill the hour-that is happineess; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval      – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself – Unknown

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

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain – Dolly Parton

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall – Confucius

Money never prevented anybody from being happy or unhappy – Eddie Barclay

Joy is not in things; it is in us – Richard Wagner

It is in the enjoyment and not in mere possession that makes for happiness – Michel De Montaigne

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about – Charles Kingsley

If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam – R.H. Tawney

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness – Bertrand Russell

 …..He chose to be rich by making his wants few -Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it – George Bernard Shaw

The longer I live the more I am convinced that the one thing worth living for and dying for is the privilege of making someone more happy and more useful. No man who ever does anything to lift his fellows ever makes a sacrifice – Booker T Washington

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.  – Og Mandino

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy – Robert Louis Stevenson

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed – Sebastien Chamfort

Throw your heart out in front of you and run ahead to catch it – Arab Proverb

To be able to find joy in another’s joy; that is the secret of happiness – Georges Bernanos

- Some people create joy whereever they go, others whenever they go. :) – Unknown

The soul that perpetually overflows with kindness and sympathy will always be cheerful – Parke Godwin

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