Quotes about Happiness

If you want to be happy, you have to be happy on purpose. When you wake up, you can't just wait to see what kind of day you'll have. You have to decide what kind of day you'll have.

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

God doesn't want us to be happy when it causes us to do something wrong or unwise

Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too—maybe even yours.

The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.

Your quality of life is directly tied to the amount of love flowing in you and through you to others.

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.

We've all met those who seem to radiate happiness. They seem to smile more than others; they laugh more than others - just being around them makes us happier as well.

I need to learn to smile more.