Quotes about joy and happiness

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

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. – Christopher McCandless

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. – E. E. Cummings

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them. – Steve Maraboli

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. – Chuck Palahniuk

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed. – Unknown

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. – Mark Twain

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. – James Matthew Barrie

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. – William Saroyan

The greatest joy in life is to love and be loved in return. – Unknown

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Gandhi

The purpose of our lives is to be happy. – Dalai Lama

Quotes about joy and happiness part 2

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. – Henri J.M. Nouwen

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. – Ashley Montagu

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. – Marcus Aurelius

Happiness is a direction, not a place. – Sydney J. Harris

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

If you want to be happy, be. – Leo Tolstoy

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give. – Oprah Winfrey

Happiness is not a destination, it’s a way of life. – Unknown

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Happiness is a warm puppy. – Charles M. Schulz

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have. – Unknown

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. – W.P. Kinsella

The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage. – Thucydides

The greatest happiness is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes, to see those who love him shrouded in tears, and to gather into your bosom his wives and daughters. – Genghis Khan

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life’s deepest joy: true fulfillment. – Tony Robbins

Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things. – Walt Disney

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. – Pericles

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. – Jim Rohn

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. – Steve Jobs

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. – Thomas Merton

The key to happiness is to appreciate what you have. If it’s not what you want, then want what you have. – Unknown

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

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything. – Unknown

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. – Marcus Aurelius

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. – Albert Camus

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. – William Saroyan

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. – Marcus Aurelius

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. – Henry Ward Beecher

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. – Eleanor Roosevelt