Have you ever had some point in your life where you sit alone, staring at the sky, and ask yourself, “will I ever be happy?”, “when will happiness come to me?” Or “is it that I’m destined to feel unhappy forever?” If that’s the thing you’re going through right now, trust me, you are not alone.
That feeling is familiar for everybody, and the only thing that can change it is to be grateful for whatever you have. Many people thought that they could only become happy if they have a lot of money, or they become the most popular, or even they become the most influential person in the world. Remember, it is not entirely true!
Even if they have everything in the world, there are many people still not feeling happy, and their hearts still feel empty. Can you tell me why?
This is because they always want something others that are not in their possession. This greedy attitude makes them feel unhappy and envious of others even though they already have everything.
That’s why I said that having everything doesn’t guarantee your happiness. But loving everything you have can lead you towards happiness. So, for those who ask, “Will I ever be happy?” I need you to ask yourself again, “Do you want to be happy, or are you just jealous and envious of what other people have?”
If you just want to find happiness, believe me, it doesn’t take much to do so. Just appreciate every little thing that you have, and I’m pretty sure you will find your happiness. Thus, to inspire you to become happy, here are some “will I ever be happy” quotes;
Will I be Happy Quotes
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” – George Sand
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” – Charles Spurgeon
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” – Guillaume Apollinaire
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore
“Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.” – Dennis Prager
“Happiness is a direction, not a place.” – Sydney J. Harris
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley
“True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” – Alice Walker
“Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.” – Robert Green Ingersoll
“An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.” – Lydia M. Child
“Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.” – Zhuangzi
“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”
– Alexandre Dumas
“Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember.” – Oscar Levant
“Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.” – William E. Gladstone
“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.” – Baruch Spinoza
“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.” – William Feather
“Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.” – Hosea Ballou
“Happiness… consists in giving, and in serving others.” – Henry Drummond
“A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.” – Joseph Addison
“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.” – Martha Washington
“Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.”
– Bertolt Brecht
“The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.” – William Inge
“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.” – Richard Bach
“Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.” – Deepak Chopra
“If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.” – Maurice Chevalier
“If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.” – David Brainerd
“When what we are is what we want to be, that’s happiness.” – Malcolm Forbes
“Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.” – Henry Van Dyke
“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“You can be happy where you are.” – Joel Osteen
“Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.”
– Marquis de Sade
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.” – J. Donald Walters
“Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give – pleasure, possessions, power – but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.” – Dada Vaswani
“Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.”
– Carrie Underwood
“A smile is happiness you’ll find right under your nose.” – Tom Wilson
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo
“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” – Theodore Isaac Rubin
“A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.” – James E. Faust
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”
– Jim Rohn
“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” – John Harrigan
“It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits: it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later.” – George Foreman
“Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not.” – Valerie Bertinelli
“There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you’re in it. Nothing can be controlled.” – Eliza Doolittle
“Happiness isn’t getting what you want, it’s wanting what you got.”
– Garth Brooks
“Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.” – Joel Osteen
“It’s good to be happy and tell us how cool your life is and how awesome you are on social media. That’s great because it inspires other people to be happy, too. But a lot of times, people are trying to be happy in the wrong ways – with money or with different things that are not true happiness.” – Jaden Smith
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” – William Morris
“In my life I’ve learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we’re all searching for. I haven’t come across anyone who didn’t become a better person through love.” – Marla Gibbs