Looking For Happiness Quotes

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.

If you’re looking for happiness in things, you’ll never find it.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

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.

People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.