Category: Happiness Quotes

“We place a happy life in tranquility of mind.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.” – Desiderius Erasmus

“I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.” – Hunter S. Thompson

“Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again — this is the brave and happy life.” – J. E. Buckrose

“The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.” – Lew Wallace

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” – Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into actions.” – Germaine De Stael

“When we feed and support our own happiness, we are nourishing our ability to love. That’s why to love means to learn the art of nourishing our happiness.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience — or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.” – Jane Austen

“That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.” – Willa Cather, My Antonia