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
We really shouldn't be putting a label on size. Fashion is for all, and I think confidence and happiness is more important than dress labels.
— Jameela Jamil
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
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
— Jacques Prevert
I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.
— Jack Gleeson
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
— J. Donald Walters
I invite you to get out of the box, be yourself. If you have blue hair, pink, yellow; if you have a broken tooth; if you have other sexual preferences... be yourself. Fight for your happiness always.
— J Balvin
Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.
— Islom Karimov
One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
— Isabelle Eberhardt
Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
— Irving Babbitt
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
— Ingrid Bergman
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
— Immanuel Kant
I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
— Iggy Azalea
Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
— Ian K. Smith
Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.
— Iain McGilchrist
People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.
— Hugh Laurie
I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.
Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
— James Allen
I think life is difficult and that's that. I am not at all - absolutely not at all - interested in the pursuit of happiness. I am not interested in the pursuit of positivity. I am interested in pursuing a truth, and the truth often seems to be not happiness but its opposite.
— Jamaica Kincaid
You know, as I get older, personal happiness is all about love. It's all about love. You know, how I'm loved and how I love my family and my husband. That to me is happiness, when I feel like I am loved and I have a place to love deeply. That to me is happiness.
— Jada Pinkett Smith
I'm proud to work with Crest and help spread the message to #ChooseSmiles because smiles are the easiest way to express kindness or happiness.
— Jacob Tremblay
The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
— J. B. Priestley
May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
— Isaac D'Israeli
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
— Iris Murdoch
Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.
— Indira Gandhi
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.
A little while ago, I had this realization that so much of my happiness depended on what my career was looking like at that time, and that's, like, death of happiness right there.
— Ian Harding
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
— Hugo Black
I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.
I have known a few good marriages, but very few. And others look to me like they're pretty miserable. I don't really think that's a recipe for happiness.
— Hugh Grant
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.
Children never seek happiness: they are happy.
— Jaggi Vasudev
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
I celebrate Diwali in a way that spreads happiness to those around me.
— Jackie Shroff
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
— J. D. Salinger
The most simple things can bring the most happiness.
— Izabella Scorupco
I say there is not more happiness for me than the freedom of my Homeland.
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
— Ioan Gruffudd
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
I believe in the ideals of America, in liberty, justice, and the pursuit of happiness.
— Ilhan Omar
I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
I don't think happiness comes with money, but if you are hungry, you can't be as happy as if you aren't hungry.
— Ian Gillan
Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
— Hugh Walpole
I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.
