Happiness

Happiness is a feeling of contentment, it comes when you feel satisfied and fulfilled. Perfect happiness, enlightenment, comes when you have all of your needs satisfied.

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert A. Heinlein,

It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
Chuck Palahniuk,

The Seven Social Sins are:
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson

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

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
John Lennon

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
Albert Schweitzer

I have only two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy.”
Allen J. Lefferdink

People should find happiness in the little things, like family.”
Amanda Bynes

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”
Andrew Carnegie

As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.”
Andrew Delbanco

Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
Aristotle

Happy girls are the prettiest.”
Audrey Hepburn

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
Ayn Rand

Family, friends, a good laugh and beautiful weather are the best cures.”
Bar Refaeli

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human—in not having to be just happy or just sad—in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.”
C. JoyBell C.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”
Carl Jung

The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”
–Carrie Jones

If you find this inspiring, you can also read Hope, another inspirational quote