99 Quotes For Happiness and Smile

1.  Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Helen Keller
2. I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. Martha Washington
3. I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. Havelock Ellis
4. Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. Kevyn Aucoin
5. Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should. Richard Dreyfuss
6. It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies in your hands. You can't rely on a man to make you happy or complete you. That starts with you. Taraji P. Henson
7. The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. Ernest Hemingway
8. The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others. Arthur C. Brooks
9. True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
10. Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections. Joseph Butler
11. I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Gilbert K. Chesterton
12. Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
13. My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. Clara Schumann
14. I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. Lord Byron
15. I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is. Alanis Morissette
16. It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it. Simon Travaglia
17. I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? Joni Mitchell
18. Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit. John Grierson
19. Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in. Julie Christie
20. No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. Christian Nestell Bovee
21. Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best. Napoleon Hill
22. Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. J. Donald Walters
23. I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance. Patrick Duffy
24. I just hope I can spread some of the happiness that's been coming my way. Kenny Rogers
25. I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness. Ric Ocasek
26. Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. Don Marquis
27. Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that. Nick Cave
28. The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift. Ellen DeGeneres
29. It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him. Marguerite Duras
30. There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. Mary Wortley
31. Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. William Blake
32. Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. William Cowper
33. All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness. William Law
34. One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day. Sean Hannity
35. You've got to ask! Asking is, in my opinion, the world's most powerful - and neglected - secret to success and happiness. Percy Ross
36. Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment. Mahatma Gandhi
37. There is an old saying that money can't buy happiness. If it could, I would buy myself four hits every game. Pete Rose
38. Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. Eustace Budgell
39. Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution. Gustave Flaubert
40. Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you. Prem Rawat
41. Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. Immanuel Kant
42. Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled. Benjamin Spock
43. It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. W. Somerset Maugham
44. The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. Henry David Thoreau
45. When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers. George Porter
46. The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
47. I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world. Lana Del Rey
48. Happiness seems made to be shared. Pierre Corneille
49. Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. John Stuart Mill
50. We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves. Ethel Percy Andrus
51. For Mythology is the handmaid of literature and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. Thomas Bulfinch
52. To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us and surely it is a good haven to sail for. Henry Van Dyke
53. Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got. Garth Brooks
54. It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. Immanuel Kant
55. I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor. Pierre Corneille
56. Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. Douglas William Jerrold
57. True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
58. Happiness, to some, elation Is, to others, mere stagnation. Amy Lowell
59. Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Leonard Boswell
60. If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world. David Brainerd
61. Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven. Giraldus Cambrensis
62. The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected. William Hall
63. The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness. Harry Harrison
64. And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin. Aeschylus
65. Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln
66. There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. George Sand
67. Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. Leo Rosten
68. Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get. Bernard Meltzer
69. Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness. Baltasar Gracian
70. So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness. Arthur Hiller
71. Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. Anton Chekhov
72. I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour. Richard Eyre
73. People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama. Carmen Electra
74. A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. Elsa Schiaparelli
75. Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others. Henry Drummond
76. All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. Baruch Spinoza
77. As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness. Dan Stevens
78. Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. Aeschylus
79. It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. Thomas Carlyle
80. Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not. Valerie Bertinelli
81. It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts. Barry Took
82. What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money. Henny Youngman
83. There is only one passion, the passion for happiness. Denis Diderot
84. There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish. Miguel de Unamuno
85. Where fear is, happiness is not. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
86. Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. Monica Edwards
87. Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman it depends on how much happiness you can handle. George Burns
88. One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child. Maria Montessori
89. To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. Bertrand Russell
90. With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. Nassau William Senior
91. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. Ayn Rand
92. I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work. Dominic Monaghan
93. Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness. Susan Faludi
94. Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible. Marcel Proust
95. Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then. Anthony Hopkins
96. Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness. David Sarnoff
97. Every age has its happiness and troubles. Jeanne Calment
98. On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long! Chandler Massey
99. Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. Tryon Edwards