quotes - Happiness

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we have.
  ~Frederick Keonig

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
~William Shakespeare

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.  ~Mignon McLaughlin

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. 
 ~Maxim Gorky

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.
 ~Frederich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. 
 ~Robert Brault

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert.  He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.  He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself.  He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day.  
~W. Beran Wolfe

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
~Joseph Addison



We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
~Charles Kingsley





When you're really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights - and flowers will bloom on a barren land.  ~Grey Livingston



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