Simple Happiness Quotes

There is always the personal, simple happiness that doesn't happen.

Live simply. Give more. Expect less.

The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.

The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true form each quality includes all the rest, for happiness is whole, and one feels whole when genuinely happy.

Meditation simply means entering into states of mind which are happiness, profound happiness, simple happiness, beautiful happiness, complicated, uncomplicated - There are ten thousand states of mind.

Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

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

If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness.

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 take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

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

You can never get enough of 'Jeopardy.'

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

You can never get enough of what you don't want.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.