Happiness Quotes

“You remember the old nursery song, Phil: "If you want to be happy, be good, — be good."”

“If you want to be happy — be busy.”

“If you want to be happy, be grateful.”

“If you want to be happy, be kind to others.”

“If you want to be happy, be happy.”

“The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.”

“Never take offense when none is intended. Act as though you were born to be happy and will not allow any one to make you unhappy.”

“The greatest gift we give to someone who loves us is simply to be happy.”

“Why, all the happiness the world inherits is for you, but you have shut yourself from it.”

“The happy have whole days, and those they choose, The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.”

“Happiness... is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.”

“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.”