Happiness Quotes

“Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.”

“All persons carry with them some means of happiness.”

“I don't think you can feel a sense of entitlement and still be happy. Happiness always comes from feeling that you've been blessed.”

“It is pretty generally admitted that riches may be secured wrongfully, but happiness cannot.”

“Glory's not otherwhere but here: Yonder stars may be more horrible than the worst of Earth. The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance: The wise grows it under his feet.”

“After stumbling around looking for contentment for years I suddenly learned that you cannot find it by hunting furiously for it. Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.”

“"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best—," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.”

“Must happiness always be a pursuit? Might it just be waking up each morning on the road you wish to travel and letting it take you wherever?”

“Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.”

“I'm perfectly happy. — If only it were true. Not that I suppose anybody is ever perfectly happy, really. But just to be ordinarily contented, to be at peace.”

“Other people become less confusing once you realize that Happiness is not one-size-fits-all.”

“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self, so as to have somewhat left to give, instead of being always prompt to grab?”