Happiness Quotes for Your Path to Restfulness

Happiness is a subjective, positive emotional state marked by pleasure, contentment, and satisfaction. Influenced by genetics, circumstances, and outlook, it can be fostered through joyful activities, positive relationships, gratitude, and mindfulness. Cultivating these aspects enriches life and promotes enduring happiness and well-being.

Happiness Quotes

1. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
— Aristotle

2. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
— Mahatma Gandhi

3. “The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.”
— Ashley Montagu

4. “Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.”
— Jaques Prevert

5. “One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.”
— Iris Murdoch

6. “The only joy in the world is to begin.”
— Cesare Pavese

7. “It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis.”
— Margaret Bonanno

8. “The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.”
— Epictetus

9. “Remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life.”
— Marcus Aurelius

10. “I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.”
— Anna Howard Shaw

11. “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
— George Sand

12. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
— Omar Khayyam

13. “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

14. “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”
— The Dalai Lama

15. “Adopt the pace of nature: Her secret is patience.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

16. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”
— Mother Theresa

17. “Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
— Helen Keller

18. “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh

19. “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
— William James

20. “There is no path to happiness; happiness is the path.”
— Buddha

21. “Happiness is a journey, not a destination.”
— Buddha

22. “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
— Gabriel García Márquez

23. “Happiness is a warm puppy.”
— Charles M. Schulz

24. “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
— Mark Twain

25. “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer

26. “It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
— Chuck Palahniuk

27. “Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.”
— Walt Disney

28. “Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt

29. “A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.”
— Albert Einstein

30. “Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.”
— Carrie Underwood

31. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

32. “The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself.”
— Ellen DeGeneres

33. “Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.”
— Roy T. Bennett

34. “Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.”
— Muhammad Ali

35. “Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness.”
— Christian Dior