True Happiness Quotes

“I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or think that I am happy but what is important to me is that I am happy. I am interested in being happy, not in making others think or know that I am.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“To buy a cake... to howl at the moon... to know true happiness... I am happy.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Peace is something like happiness; you cannot say "I will be happy when..." and you can't say "I will be peaceful when..." Your happiness shouldn't depend on the situation you're in nor on the circumstances that surround you. In the same breath, you cannot wait for everything around you to become peaceful in order for you to say "I am peaceful." In both happiness and peace, there is a heart of strength, determination and steadfastness; a heart that has the power to make things happen. You have to be at peace. You have to be happy. Now.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“True happiness cannot not be achieved through wealth, fame or action,
But through love, modesty and self satisfaction.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“People need to understand that true happiness comes from self development not self indulgence.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“True happiness is not money in the bank nor a luxurious home,
True happiness is a forgiving heart filled with love and gratitude.”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“The truth is that far more people would rather be rich than happy”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“It seems to me that the more you insist on happiness, the more you repeat that way of thinking, the more naturally your emotions follow. It will take time and mental effort, but the point is to work your mind into a groove, so that a positive perspective will become instinctive.”
― Karen Weinreb, The Summer Kitchen

“He noticed a lot of things about her. The gentle curve of her neck, the glow of her skin, her easy laughter and sunny smile. What was it about Zara that fueled this scalding awareness? He tried to focus on their conversation and stop thinking about her lush lips and how soft they would feel if he kissed her. Had he ever had this type of reaction to a woman before? When she looked at him, he could almost see another world in the depths of her warm brown eyes. A world where drinks spilled, heads rolled, footballs flew across courtrooms, and the dark place inside him was banished by the sunshine of her smile.”
― Sara Desai, The Singles Table

“We do not need more things to be happy—
just some gratitude would do.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“Django handed her a heap of parsley and she stood next to him, allowing his rhythm to become her own until they were moving together. In the air, the tang of lemons. The aroma of chicken stock. Beeswax mingling with butter. Chocolate melting into oranges. Her spirits rose with the scents swirling through the kitchen.
They spoke little; they had no need. They were a team, their minds melded more effortlessly than Stella had imagined possible. They massaged butter into chickens, boned fish, opened oysters. Django set a flat of speckled eggs on the counter. Next to it, a ceramic bowl. He opened his hands and Stella broke the eggs, dozens of them, across his outstretched fingers, watching yolks separate from whites. It occurred to her that she had tortured herself for no reason. She was happy.”
― Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

“Today, I counted the money I had earned all these years from my pen. It was quite a great deal of fortunes. Unfortunately, money does not buy happiness.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Recognizing the dissatisfactory nature of our existence and renouncing the world in which transitory sense objects contact transitory sense organs to produce transitory feelings, none of which are worth grasping at, we seek instead the everlasting, eternally joyful realizations of enlightenment or nirvana.”
― Thubten Yeshe, Becoming Your Own Therapist

“If the Unconditioned is available, and it’s the only trustworthy happiness around, the most sensible course is to invest our efforts and whatever mental and spiritual resources we have in its direction [...] The news of the Buddha’s awakening sets the standards for judging the culture we were brought up in, and not the other way around. This is not a question of choosing Asian culture over American. The Buddha’s awakening challenged many of the presuppositions of Indian culture in his day; and even in so-called Buddhist countries, the true practice of the Buddha’s teachings is always counter-cultural. It’s a question of evaluating our normal concerns— conditioned by time, space, and the limitations of aging, illness, and death— against the possibility of a timeless, spaceless, limitless happiness. All cultures are tied up in the limited, conditioned side of things, while the Buddha’s awakening points beyond all cultures. It offers the challenge of the Deathless that his contemporaries found liberating and that we, if we are willing to accept the challenge, may find liberating ourselves.”
― Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Refuge: An Introduction to the Buddha, Dhamma, & Sangha

“It is happiness when you can become a reason for someone else's happiness”
― Rafsan Al Musawver

“Happiness is the greatest paradox of nature. It can grow in any soil, live under any conditions. It defies environment. It comes from within; it is the revelation of the depths of the inner life as light and heat proclaim the sun from which they radiate. Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. A martyr at the stake may have happiness that a king on his throne might envy. Man is the creator of his own happiness; it is the aroma of a life lived in harmony with high ideals. For what a man has, he may be dependent on others; what he is rests with him alone. Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.”
― Karen Weinreb, The Summer Kitchen

“If we want to reduce stress and tension, we need to be aware that we’ve been running a lot. True happiness isn’t found in success, money, fame, or power. True happiness should be found in the here and now. With that kind of insight, you can truly relax.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Relax

“The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you're continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

“True happiness has nothing to do with pleasure, because the reliance on feeling good from such intensely stimulating things [that come from the external environment] only moves us further from real joy [which exists internally, independently of the external environment].”
― Joe Dispenza, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

“The most important things in life are family, love, friendship, good feelings, a healthy mind, garment for the body, a full belly and a roof over your head. Any man who has these things is richer than the richest man in the world!”
― Peter-Cole C. Onele

“Money could buy things, and temporary happiness. It could never buy meaningful, genuine connections with people. That came from the heart. -- Balloon Days, a novel”
― Kristi Strong, Balloon Days

“Money could buy things, and temporary happiness. It could never buy meaningful, genuine connections with people. That came from the heart.”
― Kristi Strong, Balloon Days

“Real happiness is not feeling happy if you have everything, it’s about feeling happy if you have nothing.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Real magic came from finding just the right type of chocolate to make your favorite cookies with. It came from that ease and comfort you got when you walked down a street you really, really knew. It came from eating hot biscuits with honey butter with your sisters at the same kitchen table you'd sat at when you were five. And it came from waking up with the man who made you smile.”
― Karen Hawkins, The Secret Recipe of Ella Dove

“The source of happiness is internal not external.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“True happiness reveals its depth in the radiant exchange of smiles, where the warmth of your joy becomes the catalyst for a cascade of happiness in the hearts of those around you.”
― Shree Shambav, Life Changing Journey - 365 Inspirational Quotes - Series - I

“Life is full of simple pleasures;
if one does not know how to enjoy them,
one would easily miss out on it.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“When others see us for who we truly are and love us still, we discover the purest form of happiness. Life's supreme bliss lies in being loved unconditionally — a blessed privilege that only a few ever truly experience.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“True happiness blooms in the garden of gratitude, where each cherished moment becomes a petal of contentment.”
― Shree Shambav, Journey of Soul - Karma