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The right to happiness is fundamental.

Anna Pavlova

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

Andrew Weil

Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.

Andrea Hirata

Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.

Sharon Draper

Laughter is beyond truth - the ultimate happiness.

Govinda

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Ogden Nash

All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.

Said Nursi

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

Dada Vaswani

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

Sigmund Freud

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Jane Porter

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Sydney J. Harris

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

Rollo May

Happiness cannot have boundaries.

Govinda

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Happiness is one thing, and I've had it my whole life - that's family.

Timothy F. Cahill

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Joseph Addison

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

J. Donald Walters

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Austin O'Malley

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

Mary Baker Eddy

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

Ninon de L'Enclos

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

James Allen

It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.

Ellen G. White

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

Richard Bach

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Joseph Wood Krutch

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

John Buchan

Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Sydney J. Harris

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Hermann Hesse

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

Mahatma Gandhi

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

Jose Marti

All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

Said Nursi

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

William Samuel Johnson

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

In my opinion happiness is nothing but satisfaction - satisfaction through work, thoughts and accomplishing our mission and vision.

P. T. Usha

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Henry Ward Beecher

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Deepak Chopra

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Amy Lowell

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Iris Murdoch

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

Phillips Brooks

Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.

Joyce Grenfell

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.

Channing Pollock

Happiness comes from within.

Adam Neumann

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Marquis de Sade

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

Marina Abramovic

We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds, unpredictable, fleeting, and without responsibility to our desires. Through honest self-work, reflection, and meditation, we begin to string more of these moments together, creating a web-like design of happiness that drapes around our lives.

Tara Stiles

When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.

Suze Orman