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Happiness Quotes
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Happiness Quotes
Read the best happiness quotes on joy, contentment and living well from Aristotle, Epictetus, Tolstoy, Thiruvalluvar, Kabir, the Gita and more. Words to brighten your day.
“Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own.”
Horace
Present MomentPoetry
“Happy is he who dares courageously to defend what he loves.”
Ovid
CourageLove
“Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.”
Thomas Jefferson
HealthPeace Of Mind
“The bluebird carries the sky on his back.”
Henry David Thoreau
NatureJoy
“There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.”
Charles Dickens
HopeOptimism
“A good laugh is sunshine in a house.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
LaughterHome
“Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
PositivityAttitude
“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”
Leo Tolstoy
PerspectiveMindset
“I have decided to be happy because it is good for my health.”
Voltaire
HealthFunny
“But he that keepeth the law, happy is he.”
The Bible (Proverbs 29:18)
FaithObedience
“Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.”
The Bible (Romans 14:22)
ConsciencePeace
“Happiness is the highest good.”
Aristotle
PurposePhilosophy
“He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.”
Epicurus
ContentmentGratitude
“Without virtue, a man cannot long abide either in a condition of poverty and hardship, or in a condition of enjoyment.”
Confucius
VirtueBalance
“The superior man has three things in which he delights: that his father and mother are both alive and his brothers well; that he has no cause for shame before Heaven or men; and that he can teach the most talented youth of the land.”
Mencius
FamilySimple Joys
“Everyone remembers God in sorrow, no one in happiness; if we remembered Him in happiness, why would sorrow ever come?”
Kabir
GratitudeFaith
“The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside.”
Swami Vivekananda
LovePerspective
“O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!”
William Shakespeare
EnvyLove
“All who joy would win must share it; happiness was born a twin.”
Lord Byron
Sharing JoyFriendship
“Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.”
The Bible (Proverbs 3:17)
WisdomPeace
“They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”
The Bible (Isaiah 35:10)
JoyHope
“One whose happiness is within, whose delight is within, and whose light is within, attains peace.”
The Bhagavad Gita
Inner JoyPeace
“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”
Michel de Montaigne
WisdomCheerfulness
“We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.”
Jean de La Bruyere
LaughterFunny