Quotes about happiness

I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is the painting that makes me so happy these days.

Vincent Van Gogh

Initially, the positive emotions derived from cultivating our higher natures may be weak, but we can enhance them through constant familiarity, making our experiences of happiness and inner contentment far more powerful than a life abandoned to purely impulsive emotions.

14th Dalai Lama

Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.

John Burroughs

There’s such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I’m after is contentment.

Ray Charles

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Adam Smith

Inner peace helps sustain good health, gives rise to happy individuals, happy families, happy communities and ultimately a happy humanity.

14th Dalai Lama

I’m alive. When I’m eating that’s all I think about. If I’m on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight,it will be just as good a day as any to die. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now.

Paulo Coelho

Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.

Robert Kiyosaki