Quotes, Sayings about Being Happy

Don't put the key to happiness in someone else's pocket.
~Author Unknown


Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
~Jacques Prévert


If you want to be happy, be.
~Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.
~Palmer Sondreal


Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.
~Robert Anthony


The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
~Mark Twain, 1896


If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
~Edith Wharton


Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
~E.L. Konigsburg


Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.
~Cynthia Nelms


Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.
~Robertson Davies


Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
~Norm Papernick


All persons carry with them some means of happiness.
 ~James Lendall Basford

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.
~Fyodor Dostoevsky


What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
~Colette


The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.
~James Openheim


Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.
~John Barrymore


"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called.
~A.A. Milne


People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
~H. Jackson Brown


It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.
~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard


Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.
~Hazelmarie Elliott ("Mattie")