Quotes about Happiness

My mama used to say if you frown on the outside long enough, eventually you'll grow a frown on the inside, too.

The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get. Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you.

Joy, I realized, isn't so much a circumstance you find yourself in but a choice you make.

My pappy used to say, any day you don't find a reason to laugh is like livin' two days, neither one of them worth a whit.

The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get. Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you." She

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.

The men and women who have the right ideals ... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.

Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.

It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that make's happiness

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a life time.