Quotes about Happiness

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness.  You have to catch it yourself.  ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin


What a wonderful life I've had!  I only wish I'd realized it sooner.  ~Colette


If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.  If you want to be happy, practice compassion.  ~Dalai Lama


Happiness is the feeling you're feeling when you want to keep feeling it.  ~Author Unknown


You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance.  ~Lavetta Sue Wegman


I don't wanna' spend my life jaded
Waiting to wake up one day and find
That I've let all these years go by
Wasted
- Carrie Underwood



The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase:  if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.  ~C.P. Snow



As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: "What do I really need right now to be happy?" What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way. -- Sharon Salzberg


What would our world be like if we ceased to worry about "right" and "wrong," or "good" and "evil," and simply acted so as to maximize well-being, our own and that of others? Would we lose anything important?
-- Sam Harris



Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health. ---Julia Child


When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.
- Lee Ann Womack


Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
- Anne Frank


The path to happiness is forgiveness of everyone and gratitude for everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie