Hello and Welcome. This page is a collection of 11 quotes about Happiness that I liked and saved from various books. I hope you will like these quotes too.
By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
Happiness Quotes from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson
- The three big ones in life are wealth, health, and happiness. We pursue them in that order, but their importance is reverse.
- Happiness is the state when nothing is missing. When nothing is missing, your mind shuts down and stops running into the past or future to regret something or to plan something. In that absence, for a moment, you have internal silence. When you have internal silence, then you are content, and you are happy.
- Peace is happiness at rest, and happiness is peace in motion. You can convert peace into happiness anytime you want. But peace is what you want most of the time. If you’re a peaceful person, anything you do will be a happy activity.
- The most important trick to being happy is to realize happiness is a skill you develop and a choice you make. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It’s just like building muscles. It’s just like losing weight. It’s just like succeeding at your job. It’s just like learning calculus. You decide it’s important to you. You prioritize it above everything else. You read everything on the topic.
- To me, happiness is not about positive thoughts. It’s not about negative thoughts. It’s about the absence of desire, especially the absence of desire for external things. The fewer desires I can have, the more I can accept the current state of things, the less my mind is moving, because the mind really exists in motion toward the future or the past. The more present I am, the happier and more content I will be.
- Happiness to me is mainly not suffering, not desiring, not thinking too much about the future or the past, really embracing the present moment and the reality of what is, and the way it is.
Happiness Quotes from The Wedding People book by Alison Espach
- I think we talk about happiness all wrong. As if it’s this fixed state we’re going to reach. Like we’ll just be able to live there, forever. But that’s not my experience with happiness. For me, it comes and goes. It shows up and then disappears like a bubble.
- When you are happy, everywhere is a happy place. And when you are sad, everywhere is a sad place.
Other Happiness Quotes
- Happy people love people, use things, and worship the divine; unhappy people use people, love things, and worship themselves. – from The 5 Types of Wealth book by Sahil Bloom
- Happiness is so hard to come by. I don’t understand why anyone would begrudge anyone else for managing to find some of it. – from Atmosphere book by Taylor Jenkins Reid
- The key to happiness wasn’t being yourself, because what did that even mean? Everyone had many selves. No. The key to happiness is finding the lie that suits you best. – from How to Stop Time book by Matt Haig