"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance,
the wise grows it under his feet."
-James Oppenheim
the wise grows it under his feet."
-James Oppenheim
Happy Echo’s Favorite Happiness Quotes
(In alphabetical order)
· Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
o Abraham Lincoln
· But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
o Albert Camus
· Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
· Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
o Albert Schweitzer
· The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
o Anne Frank
· Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.
· Happiness is like a kiss...you must share it to enjoy it.
o Anonymous
· What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
o Baruch Spinoza
· Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.
o Brother David Steindl-Rast
· The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase, if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
o C. P. Snow
· Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.
o Buddha
· Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
o Denis Waitley
· If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
o Edith Wharton
· The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also.
o Felix Adler
· Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.
o Francesca Reigler
· The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.
o Francoise de Motteville
· Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
o Franklin D. Roosevelt
· We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
o Frederick Keonig
· There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
o George Sand
· Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.
· When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
o Helen Keller
· All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.
o Horace Friess
· The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
o James Oppenheim
· Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.
o John Barrymore
· Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
· Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
o Mark Twain
· The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
o Martha Washington
· Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
o Mahatma Gandhi
· Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
o Nathaniel Hawthorne
· Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
o Norman MacEwan
· There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.
o Peyton Conway March
· To fill the hour -- that is happiness.
· Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
· For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
o Ralph Waldo Emerson
· People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.
o Ramona L. Anderson
· There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
o Robert Louis Stevenson
· Independence is happiness.
o Susan B. Anthony
· The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
· Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
o Thich Nhat Hanh
· If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.
o W. Beran Wolfe
· That is happiness; to be dissolved into something completely great.
o Willa Cather
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