55 Quotes About Happiness

What is happiness?

Where do you find it?

How do you find it?

Does our journey lead us to happiness, or is happiness what our journey is composed of?

And don't forget the golden age old question: “Can money buy happiness?”

“Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” -Aristotle

In the end, we all desire to be happy. However, such a simple concept has generally proven to be one of the hardest ones for us to understand.

Perhaps we are searching so hard that we are missing what is right in front of us. Perhaps we are overthinking a basic concept. Or, perhaps we just need a reminder on some fundamental wisdom that we may have momentarily forgotten. We all sometimes need reminders.

That being said, here are 55 quotes about happiness from a variety of well known people/important historical figures.

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1. “Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.” -Aristotle
2. "Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth." -Mark Twain
3. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” -Omar Khayyam
4. “For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. “Never put the key to your happiness in someone else’s pocket.” -Unknown
6. “The true secret to happiness is taking a genuine interest in all of the daily details of life.” -Willam Morris
7. “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” -Abraham Lincoln
8. “I do believe that if you have not learned about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.” -Nana Mouskouri
9. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” -Dalai Lama
10. “Happiness can exist only in acceptance.” -George Orwell
11. “Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” -Guillaume Apollinaire
12. “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” -Charles Spurgeon
13. “Happiness resides it’s not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.” -Democritus
14. “Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product of a life well lived.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
15. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” -Dale Carnegie
16. “Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.” -Saul Bellow
17. “A sure way to lose happiness, I found, it’s to want it at the expense of everything else.” -Bette Davis
18. “Happiness is a direction, not a place.”-Sydney J Harris
19. “Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.” -Napoleon Hill
20. “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” -John Barrymore
21. “It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” -Agnes Repplier
22. “We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.” -Walter Savage Landor
23. “Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. “There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path.” -Buddha
25. “It is a happiness to wonder; It is a happiness to dream.” -Edgar Allan Poe
26. “Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.” -Buddha
27. “Happiness is an inside job.” -William Arthur Ward
28. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to goals, not people or things.” -Albert Einstein
29. “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” -Anne Frank
30. “The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.” -Marcus Aurelius
31. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” -Mahatma Gandhi
32. “Men always forget that human happiness is a disposition of mind and not a condition of circumstances.” -John Locke
33. “The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to seek less.” -Socrates.
34. “Happiness is a quality of the soul, not a function of one’s material circumstances.” -Aristotle
35. “Happiness is a function of accepting what is.” -Werner Erhard
36. “The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” -Benjamin Franklin
37. “Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.” -Bob Marley
38. “Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.” -Andy Rooney
39. “The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.” - Epictetus
40. “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” -Jim Rohn
41. “Happiness. Not in another place, but this place... Not for another hour, but this hour.” -Walt Whitman
42. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” —Mother Theresa
43. “Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” —Helen Keller
44. “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” —Thich Nhat Hanh
45. “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” —William James
46. “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” -Steve Maraboli
47. “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
48. “We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.” -George Bernard Shaw
49. “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
50. “The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” -William Morris
51. “The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” -James M. Barrie
52. “Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.” – Friedrich Schiller
53. “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha
54. “That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.” – Henry David Thoreau
55. “What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.” -Leo Buscaglia

Happiness: one of the most simplistic complexities to exist…