The Ultimate Guide to Happiness: Quotes for Joy and Fulfillment

Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A Writer's Diary (1881)

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (1844)

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.Attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Do not fall prey to seeking pure happiness. Instead, seek lifelong progress toward happierness.

Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Happiness does not depend on the size or content of a goal, but on the strength of the desire to have it.Simon Soloveychik, Parenting For Everyone: Where Do Good Children Come From? (2010)

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness (1930)

Success is getting what you want, but happiness is wanting what you get.W. P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe (1982)

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.William Saroyan, My Heart's in the Highlands (1939)

The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go.Anonymous

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.William Ralph Inge, Lay Thoughts of a Dean (1926)

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything they have.Anonymous

It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.Anonymous

Don’t let the sadness of your past and the fear of your future ruin the happiness of your present.Anonymous

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.Attributed to William Feather

Remember, being happy doesn’t mean you have it all. It simply means you’re thankful for all you have.Anonymous

Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.Ludwig Wittgenstein, Journal entry (July 8, 1916)

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.James Oppenheim, War And Laughter (1916)

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.Attributed to Margaret Bonanno

Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy.Cary Grant, as quoted in 'Love – That's All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About' by Sheilah Graham Westbrook in Motion Picture (June 1964)

The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy.William Carlos Williams, Letter to his mother (February 12, 1904)

Happiness is not what you can hold in your hand but who’s hand you hold.Anonymous

Time heals, and experience teaches that the secret of happiness is in service to others.Charlie Chaplin, Screen title in A Woman of Paris (1923)

Be the reason someone smiles today.Anonymous

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.Attributed to H. Jackson Brown

Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (1957)

Do not chase after happiness, it is always in you.Attributed to Pythagoras

Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco (1961)

Never put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket.Anonymous

Waiting around for someone else to make you happy is the best way to be sad.Anonymous

You rarely can make another happy, unless you are happy yourself.Dinah Craik, A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858)

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes (2007)