Happy Quotes

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worth purpose.

Helen Keller

To find your own way is to follow your bliss.

Joseph Campbell

Joy?
A little pearl of the ocean.
Perhaps
By the time I fish it up
I may break it.

Sándor Petőfi

Desire - and all concede it -
kills all who are not dead.
But happiness, you need it
as you need daily bread.

Attila József

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

The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.

Michel de Montaigne

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

Bertrand Russell

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

Mark Twain

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

William Somerset Maugham

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

George Sheehan