Happiness Quotes

"The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less."

- Socrates

"Happiness can exist only in acceptance."

- George Orwell

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

- Albert Camus

"A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature."

- Seneca

"A disciplined mind brings happiness."

- Buddha

"The secret to happiness is freedom… and the secret to freedom is courage."

- Thucydides

"Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It’s not who we are."

- James Altucher

"People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy."

- Anton Chekhov

"Happiness cannot be pursued, it must ensue."

- Viktor Frankl

"Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years."

- Ausonius

"Life begins on your 40th birthday, but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person three or four times."

- Helen Rowland

"Just remember, once you're over the hills, you pick up speed."

- Charles M. Schultz

"Pushing forty? She's clinging on to it for dear life!"

- Ivy Compton-Burnett

"Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy."

- Gretta Palmer

"You are serving a customer, not a life sentence. Learn how to enjoy your work."

- Laurie McIntosh

"Although the skills aren’t hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant."

- Mario Batali

"Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Happiness comes from within."

"Happiness is reality minus expectations."

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"Happiness never comes alone."

"There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path."

"Happy 40th! You have now reached the age where all compliments will be followed by 'for your age…'"

"You're 40. In dog years, you're dead."

"Happy 40th birthday to someone whose aches and pains are now because of arthritis and not partying."

"Happy birthday! At 40, your body may not always do what you want it to do but your mind is as sharp as ever. That's why you should only exercise your mind, not your body."

"So you're 40. It could be worse. You could look it."

"Wow, 40 years-old. If this were the 1700s, you'd be dead."

"Happy 40th, you can now officially begin your mid-life crisis!"

"40 - When you start forgetting more than you learn"