Quotes about happiness

Loneliness is emptiness but happiness is you.

Johnny Cash

Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool’s paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness.

Bertrand Russell

A bully is playing a game, one that he or she enjoys and needs. You’re welcome to play this game if it makes you happy, but for most people, it will make you miserable.

Seth Godin

Silence is the birthplace of happiness. Silence is where we get our bursts of inspiration, our tender feelings of compassion and empathy, and our sense of love.

Deepak Chopra

You can be as rich, and famous, and powerful as you want to be, and it will not bring you happiness. That’s said over and over and over, again. It’s such a cliché that it hardly needs to be said, but people don’t understand that it’s actually true.

George Lucas

Happiness blooms naturally in the hearts of those who are inwardly free. It flows spontaneously, like a mountain spring after April showers, in minds that are contented with simple living.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Both these people illustrate the essential point that happiness is determined more by one’s state of mind than by external events.

14th Dalai Lama

I don’t burden myself too much with others’ expectations – or even my own expectations. I think your happiness grows in direct proportion to your acceptance, and in inverse proportion to your expectations.

Michael J. Fox

Authentic happiness comes from being in conscious connection with our inner being rather than dependency on outer things and circumstances which are constantly in a state of flux.

Michael Beckwith

Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.

Paramahansa Yogananda