Quotes and Sayings about Happiness

Are you looking for real happiness? Just close your eyes, open your mind, and restore the purity of your heart. – Victorino Q. Abrugar

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

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

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.  – Cynthia Nelms

What a wonderful life I’ve had!  I only wish I’d realized it sooner.  – Colette

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.  – James Openheim

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

Happiness is a form of courage.  – Holbrook Jackson

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.  If you want to be happy, practice compassion.  – Dalai Lama

The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1.  – Author Unknown

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.  – Doug Larson

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.  – Author Unknown

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.  – Chinese Proverb

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.  – Taisen Deshimaru

“Do you not know this of old,
Since man was placed on earth,
That the triumphing of the wicked is short,
And the joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment? – Job 20:4-5

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. – James 1:2-3

Having many things to write to you, I did not wish to do so with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you and speak face to face, that our joy may be full. – 2 John 1:12

Sadness is the absence of happiness, but not the vice versa. So if you want to stay happy, you should always look for happiness and be abundant of it. – Victorino Q. Abrugar