Quotes about happiness

In this world, the greatest rewards of success, wealth and happiness are usually obtained not through the exercise of special powers such a genius or intellect but through one’s energetic use of simple means and ordinary qualities.

Og Mandino

For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.

Buddha

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

Josh Billings

The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone; the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Just as money can’t buy happiness, neither can it buy time affluence.

Arianna Huffington

Happiness, eternal or temporal, is not the reward that mankind seeks, happinesses are but his wayside companions. His soul is in the journey and in the struggle.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Each of us should make the most of our lives. We should give life our best-let us use our lives more wisely to chase our dreams, find our true purpose, and be as happy and successful as possible.

Malcolm X

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than to appear so; even pleasure itself they sacrifice to parade, and enjoyment to ostentation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Live life and take chances. Believe that everything happens for a reason and don’t regret. Love to the fullest and you will find true happiness in life. Realize that things go wrong and people change, but things do go on. Sometimes things weren’t meant to be. What is supposed to happen will work its way out.

Oprah Winfrey