1,043 Quotes Regarding Happiness

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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Malcolm Forbes

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
Alexandre Dumas

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Friedrich Schiller

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George Sand

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
Ogden Nash

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas William Jerrold

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
Maurice Chevalier

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Leo Rosten

Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Sydney J. Harris

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.
Ben Jonson

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole France

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.
Kin Hubbard

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
Euripides

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
David Lee Roth

Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.
Oscar Levant

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
Joseph Wood Krutch