Happiness Quote Happiness is a direction, not a place. — Sydney J. Harri

30 Famous Happiness Quotes By Great Leaders

Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs,

among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.” – Alain De Botton

“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” – Ayn Rand

“The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” “The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”

“People should find happiness in the little things, like family.” – Amanda Byne Aristotle happiness quote "Happiness depends upon ourselves" “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”  – Aristotle

“As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.” – Andrew Delbanco

“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.” – Baruch Spinoza

“Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.” – Immanuel Kant “To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” – Bertrand Russell

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”  “As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.”

“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.” – Baruch Spinoza

“Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.” – Benjamin Franklin

“A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.” – Bernard de Fontenelle

“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” – Carrie Jone

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind.

If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. – Buddha

“There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human—in not having to be just happy or just sad—in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.” – C. JoyBell C.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. – Carl Jung

“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” – Charles Spurgeon

“There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.” – Charlotte Bronte

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” – Chuck Palahniuk “Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.” – Cynthia Nelm

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama

“Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.” – Don Marqui

“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” – Dale Carnegie

“People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat – that’s the only moral they know.” – Dany Laferrière

“We can’t control the world. We can only (barely) control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement.” – David C. Hill

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley

“I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success.” – Diego Val

“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.” – Edith Wharton

“Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends.” – Divyanka Tripathi

“The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.” “Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.”

“Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.” – E.L. Konigsburg