Quotes about happiness

Happiness takes work. It doesn’t always fall off trees or come easily. You really have to be someone that doesn’t fall prey to being sad. I don’t want sad, I can’t be sad, I don’t want to be about sad; I avoid sad.

Drew Barrymore

Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Steve Pavlina

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

To be truly happy and fulfilled, you must be working toward accomplishing something that is bigger than yourself, and that makes a difference in the life or work of others.

Brian Tracy

But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people–first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.

Albert Einstein

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

Confucius

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need a commitment to something bigger and more important than yourself. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world.

Brian Tracy

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

Amy Winehouse

Happy day, when, all appetites controlled, all poisons subdued, all matter subjected, mind, all conquering mind, shall live and move the monarch of the world. Glorious consummation! Hail fall of Fury! Reign of Reason, all hail!

Abraham Lincoln