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120+ Happiness Quotes That’ll Brighten Your Day In An Instant

A happiness quote a day can help you live a life with more play. On days where you need some more joy, reading about happiness can uplift you. We’re all trying to find happy moments in our life. But happiness is always there when you live presently. When we stop drowning our thoughts in the past and fearing the future, we can find peace in the present. We hope these happy quotes brighten up your day. And if you ever need someone to listen, leave a comment on this post. 

What is Happiness?

Happiness is a positive emotional state. It’s a state that people strive to experience to achieve well-being, peace and contentment in their life. 

120+ Happiness Quotes That’ll Brighten Your Day in An Instant

Happiness Quotes

• “The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy. It’s all that matters.” – Audrey Hepburn
• “Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Never regret anything that made you smile.” – Mark Twain
• Today I will focus on stressing less and feeling blessed
• “Happiness is the best makeup.” – Drew Barrymore
• “Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.” – Walt Disney
• “If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy
• “Independence is happiness.” – Susan B. Anthony
• “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” – Anne Frank
• “Simplicity makes me happy.” – Alicia Keys
• Happiness is seeing life for what it is in all the little moments.

Happy Quotes

• “Life is too short to spend it at war with yourself.” – Unknown
• The happiness you’re looking for is all around you, don’t forget to notice it
• “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
•  “Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness.” – Christian Dior
• “Happiness isn’t a goal… it’s a by-product of a life well lived.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
• “There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path.” – Buddha
• “Happiness comes in waves. It’ll always come back.” – Unknown
• Be happy it’ll drive your enemies crazy
• The secret to being happy is to find peace where you are even if you’re not yet where you want to be
• “The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are.” – Goldie Hawn
• The happiest people make the best of what they have instead of crave what they don’t

True Happiness Quotes

• True happiness is found by living in the present moment
• “Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for it is counterfeit.” – Hosea Ballou
• “There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.” – George Sand
• “Keep your face always toward the sunshine and the shadow will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
• “True happiness is found inside the heart.” – Anurag Prakash Ray
• “True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” – Helen Keller
• Being grateful for all that you have leads you towards true happiness
• You’ll instantly discover true happiness when you stop looking for reasons to be unhappy
• “Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley
• “True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.” – Joseph Addison

Funny Happiness Quotes

• “Always keep your chin up, otherwise you’re just staring at your boobs all day.” – Unknown
• “Some people call me crazy. I prefer the term happy with a twist.” – Unknown
• “Breathe in the good shit, breathe out the bullshit.” – Karen Salmansohn
• “They say money doesn’t bring happiness, but everyone still goes out there to see it for themselves.” – Unknown
• “Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth.” – Mallory Hopkins
• “Whenever I have a problem, I sing. Then I realize that my voice is worse than my problem.” – Unknown
• “Never let anyone treat you like you’re regular glue. You’re glitter glue.” – Unknown
• “It’s okay if you don’t like me. Not everyone has good taste.” – Unknown
• “The older you get the better you get… unless you’re a banana.” – Betty White
• “My dream job would be the Karma Delivery Service.” – Bill Murray

Laughter Quotes

• “Life is better when you cry a little, laugh a lot, and are thankful for everything you’ve got.” – Unknown
• “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” – E.E. Cummings
• “Trouble knocked at the door, but hearing laughter, hurried away.” – Benjamin Franklin
• “Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.” – Walt Disney
• “Laughter is an instant vacation.” – Milton Berle
• “Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing.” – Jarod Kintz
• “Laughter is the best medicine. But if you’re laughing without any reason, you need medicine.” – Unknown
• “You don’t stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.” – Maurice Chevalier
• “And finally, in all of living have much of fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.” – Gordon B. Hinchley
• “Life is better when you’re laughing.” – Unknown

Happiness Status

• “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis
• “The secret to having it all… is knowing you already do.” – Unknown
• Whenever you’re feeling sad, just remember that some of the best days of your life have yet to come
• I’m going to find happiness in my life no matter what it takes
• “Happiness is a direction, not a place.” – Sydney J. Harris
• “But if you’re broken, you don’t have to stay broken.” – Selena Gomez
• “Comparison is an act of violence against the self.” – Iyanla Vanzant
• “You’ve survived 100% of your worst days.” – Unknown
• Amazing things happen. You’ll have good days again. You will be better soon.

Short Happy Quotes

• “She wore a smile like a loaded gun.” – Atticus
• “I just want to spend the rest of my life laughing.” – Unknown
• “Happiness is an inside job.” – Unknown
• “Exist to be happy, not to impress.” – Unknown
• “No rain, no flowers.” – Unknown
• “Being happy never goes out of style.” – Lilly Pulitzer
• “In a world full of hate, be love.” – Unknown
• “A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.” – Coco Chanel
• “We grow through what we go through.” – Tyrese Gibson
• “See the good” – Unknown

Cute Happiness Quotes

• “Trust the next chapter because you are the author.” – Unknown
• “When you focus on the good, the good gets better.” – Abraham Hicks
• “Be somebody who makes everyone feel like a somebody.” – Courtney Shields
• “Some days you just have to create your own sunshine.” – Sam Sundquist
• “It’s not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.” – Charles Spurgeon
• “Bad vibes don’t go with my outfit.” – Unknown
• “It’s better to be annoyingly positive and optimistic than destructively negative and hateful.” – Unknown
• “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
• “When it rains look for rainbows, when it’s dark look for stars.” – Unknown
• Sometimes life’s worst moments lead you directly to your happiest moments

Quotes About Happiness and Smiling

• “If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.” – Dolly Parton
• “Don’t be sad because sad backwards is das and das not good.” – Unknown
• “Smile at strangers and you just might change a life.” – Masashi Kishimoto
• “Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Teresa
• “A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.” – Phyllis Diller
• “A simple smile. That’s the start of opening your heart and being compassionate to others.” – Dalai Lama
• “Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
• “She was trouble, chaos really, but her smile, her smile dared me to fall in love with her.” – Atticus
• “We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.” – Mother Teresa
• “I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.” – Goldie Hawn

Quotes About Being Happy With Yourself

• “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” – Robert Morley
• “So many people love you. Don’t focus on the people that don’t.” – Soyen
• “Forgive yourself for not having the foresight to know what seems so obvious in hindsight.” – Judy Belmont
• “Wouldn’t it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself , the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.” – Alan Cohen
• ”The best revenge is to have enough self worth not to seek it.” – Courtney Jarvis
• Create yourself to be the kind of person that you’ll be happy to be for the rest of your life
• “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
• “The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go.” – Dodinsky
• “If you ever have to decide between winning a fight or being happy, choose happiness. Being happy automatically makes you a winner.” – Karen Salmansohn
• “Never feel guilty for doing what’s best for you.” – Dushant Isankar

Live Life Happy Quotes

• “Happiness is the highest form of health.” – Dalai Lama
• “People who wonder whether the glass is half empty or full miss the point. The glass is refillable.” – Unknown
• “Your life isn’t yours if you always care what others think of you.” – Unknown
• “Turn your wounds into wisdom” – Oprah
• “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” – Maya Angelou
• “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam
• “We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one.” – Tom Hiddleston
• “It’s okay. You just forgot who you are for a moment. Welcome back.” – Unknown
• “You owe to yourself the love that you give so freely to others.” – Unknown
• “If it comes, let it come. If it stays, let it stay. If it goes, let it go.” – Nicholas Sparks

I Am Happy Quotes

• I’m not perfect. Sometimes I break and fall. But even on tough days, I am happy.
• “Whoever is happy will make others happy.” – Anne Frank
• “I am happy. I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve. I am happy.” – Vera Nazarian
• “I’m lucky enough to be with someone, I am happy.” – Johnny Knoxville
• I am happy… for me.
• “I have only two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy.” – Allen J. Lefferdink
• “As long as he’s happy, I am happy.” – Joseph Jackson
• “I am a happy soul.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
• “I feel I could fly, I am so happy.” – Abu Ahmed
• “I have what I have. And I am happy. I have lost what I’ve lost. And I am still happy.” – Rupi Kaur

Famous Happiness Quotes

• “You don’t need too many people to be happy, just a few real ones who appreciate you for who you are.” – Wiz Khalifa
• “Being happy isn’t having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it’s about stringing together all the little things.” – Ann Brashares
• “Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.” – Marianne Williamson
• “Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.” – Ellen Degeneres
• “A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.” – Bette Davis
• “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
• “Happiness is a place between too much and too little.” – Finnish Proverb
• “The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.” – Epictetus
• “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” – John Lennon
• “No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.” – Buddha

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From wisdom about the nature of true happiness from Buddha ("There is no path to happiness; happiness is the path") to nostalgic quotes from cultural icons (such as Bob Ross's classic “We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents"), these short inspirational quotes can provide a quick pick-me-up whenever you need it.

Write your favorite on a sticky note for your desk or mirror to serve as a daily reminder, send one to a friend who could use some cheering up, or share one on Instagram along with a photo that fills you with joy. And if you need more uplifting words, explore our collections of self-love quotes and positive quotes too. 🌻 Join the Country Living All Access today and enjoy exclusive access to home tours, seasonal craft projects, recipes, and more

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“Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower.”

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“Joy is not in things; it is in us.”

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"No medicine cures what happiness cannot."

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• “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” —Mahatma Gandhi
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• “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” —The Dalai Lama
• “Adopt the pace of nature: Her secret is patience.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” —Mother Theresa
• “Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” —Helen Keller
• “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” —Thich Nhat Hanh
• “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” —William James

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We all want to be happy, right? These happiness quotes are the place to start your pursuit.

After all, life is better when we’re happy and feel positive .

So to help you on your journey, enjoy these feel-good quotes about happiness and being happy to help you find joy and satisfaction in life.

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Top 10 Happiness Quotes

Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement. David C. Hill

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. Dalai Lama

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them. Steve Maraboli

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. Bernard de Fontenelle

The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage. Carrie Jones

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles Spurgeon

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Quotes about Happiness

Ask any number of people and each one will likely define happiness differently. Do you have your definition or are you still looking for one?

These quotes about happiness explore what it means, how to find it, and what to do if you have it.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. Immanuel Kant

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. Thomas Jefferson

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. Don Marquis

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. V.S. Pritchett

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. Bertrand Russell

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

The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. Benjamin Franklin

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. Robertson Davies

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. Charlotte Bronte

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. Johnny Carson

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. George Burns

Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack. Hazelmarie Elliott

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else. Chinese Proverb

Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other. Norman Bradburn

Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends. Divyanka Tripathi

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. Jonathan Safran Foer

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 holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world. Orhan Pamuk

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. William Saroyan

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. Joseph Roux

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid. J.D. Salinger

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration. Pat Conroy

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy? Leslie Caron

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. Maxim Gorky

Happiness is a well-balanced combination of love, labour, and luck . Mary Wilson Little

Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman. Or a bad woman. George Burns

Short Happiness Quotes

Happiness is a place between too much and too little. Finnnish Proverb

Happiness is a form of courage. Holbrook Jackson

No medicine cures what happiness cannot. Gabriel García Márquez

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude . William James

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. John Lubbock

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. Richard Bach

Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness. Buddha

All happiness depends on courage and work. Honoré de Balzac

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. John Harrigan

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. Lady Blessington

Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy. J.M. Reinoso

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Robert Frost

The Pursuit of Happiness

Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Guillaume Apollinaire

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. James Oppenheim

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. Doug Larson

There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way. Thich Nhat Hanh

Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it. J. Petit Senn

As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. Andrew Delbanco

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 in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens. Douglas Jerrold

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. Epictetus

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. Jim Rohn

Happiness is always the serendipitous result of looking for something else. Dr. Idel Dreimer

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. E.L. Konigsburg

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert A. Heinlein

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. The secret ingredients to true happiness? Decisive optimism and personal responsibility. Amy Leigh Mercree

People should find happiness in the little things, like family. Amanda Bynes

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. Unknown, Commonly Attributed to Benjamin Franklin

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. Eric Hoffer

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. George Bernard Shaw

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. Aristotle

My family didn’t have a lot of money, and I’m grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness. Evangeline Lilly

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. Gretta Brooker Palmer

True Happiness

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. George Sand

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. Baruch Spinoza

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. Norm Papernick

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. Hosea Ballou

It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness. Richard Branson

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. Buddha

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Chuck Palahniuk

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. Epictetus

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. Frederick Keonig

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

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? Hunter S. Thompson

The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. William Morris

Real happiness is not of temporary enjoyment, but is so interwoven with the future that it blesses for ever. James Lendall Basford

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller

Happiness is the default state. It’s what’s there when you remove the sense that something is missing in life. Naval Ravikant

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison

Happiness is a constant work-in-progress, because solving problems is a constant work-in-progress – the solutions to today’s problems will lay the foundation for tomorrow’s problems, and so on. True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving. Mark Manson

Happy Quotes

We hear and use the word “happy” a lot, but being happy is more than just a wish or greeting. Happy is a state of mind that we can choose and cultivate.

More important, we can share happy words and thoughts with others once we have it ourselves. These quotes about being happy will help you do just that! So be happy and see how good it feels when those around you are happier too.

If being happy is a challenge, check out our list of what you can do to be happier today and start putting a few in practice.

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. John Stuart Mill

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust

One joy scatters a hundred griefs. Chinese Proverb

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness . It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. Carl Jung

It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. Unknown

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Teresa

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self? Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. Lucille Ball

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. Abraham Lincoln

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. Walter Savage Landor

It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. Dale Carnegie

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. Richard Bach

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. George Bernard Shaw

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not. George Bernard Shaw

Happy girls are the prettiest. Audrey Hepburn

When you’re happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness – and that’s a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life. Suze Orman

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day. W. Beran Wolfe

Quotes about Being Happy

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. Robert Louis Stevenson

I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success. Diego Val

Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy. Robert Anthony

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human—in not having to be just happy or just sad—in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time. C. JoyBell C.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances  J. Donald Walters

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. Anne Frank

People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat – that’s the only moral they know. Dany Laferrière

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. Epicurus

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier. Benjamin Franklin

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. Logan Pearsall Smith

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations. Tom Brady

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. John Stuart Mill

Happiness is the experience of loving life. Being happy is being in love with that momentary experience. And love is looking at someone or even something and seeing the absolute best in him/her or it. Love is happiness with what you see. So love and happiness really are the same thing… just expressed differently. Robert McPhillips

Be Happy Quotes

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness. William E. Gladstone

You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes. Lauren Oliver

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. Cynthia Nelms

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Earl Nightingale

Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy. Roy T. Bennett

Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest. Sri Chinmoy

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness. Tracy Kidder

Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy. Deepak Chopra

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want. Jim Rohn

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. Andrew Carnegie

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now. Gerald Jampolsky

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you. Lao Tzu

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. Robert S. Lynd

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Dalai Lama

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it. Robert Brault

We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. Thomas Merton

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness. Ayn Rand

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton

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

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want. Alan Cohen

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. St. Augustine

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam

If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap. If you want happiness for a day – go fishing. If you want happiness for a month – get married. If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime – help someone else. Chinese Proverb

Feeling Happy Quotes

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. Marcus Aurelius

Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking. H.W. Byles

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness. Mignon McLaughlin

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. Mark Twain

Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect. Alain De Botton

On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. William R. Inge

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change. Barbara DeAngelis

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. Bertrand Russell

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. Fyodor Dostoevsky

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. Niccolo Machiavelli

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

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. Mark Twain

I have only two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy. Allen J. Lefferdink

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. Sigmund Freud

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do. Eckhart Tolle

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them. Anthony de Mello

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. James M. Barrie

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine. Morris West

We hope these happiness quotes lifted your mood and brightened your day. Share them with your friends to keep the good vibes spreading and choose to be happier today.

Being happy makes life better and more enjoyable, even when we have to make changes along the way.

If you still need a boost to be happier, check out 30 things you need to let go of to find happiness and start taking steps toward a happier life.

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160 Happiness Quotes to Make you Happy and Feel Good

Happiness ….. everybody wants to be happy in this world and chases it, but few understand from where does it come.  People keep searching for it in the outside world , but the reality is it lies within you. You just need to explore it inside you. Lots of ups and down comes  across in the life and we face many difficulties and challenges . We need to overcome from these with confidence and feel HAPPY. Happiness is a journey not a destination , life will be easy when you are happy with it. Today, I am sharing with you collection of my favorite happiness quotes, which I like most and these quotes make me smile , whenever I read them.

Happiness Quotes

Here is the collection of happiness quotes to make you smile and keep you motivated in life. Hope you will like these happy quotes.

• “Happiness is contagious, spread this among people surrounding you.” ~ Invajy

• “People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

• “Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.” ~ Frank Tyger

• “Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

• “Learn to let go . That is the key to happiness.” ~ Buddha

• “There is no path to happiness; happiness is the path.” ~ Buddha

• “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• “Happiness, search it in the outer world and you’ll be exhausted. Search it inside you’ll find a path.” ~ Invajy

• “Happiness is the best makeup” ~ Drew Barrymore​

• “Happiness walks step by step just right beside you; if you look at it mindfully.” ~ Invajy

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Happy Quotes

• “Happiness is inversely correlated with desire.” ~ Invajy

• “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” ~ Dalai Lama

• “Happiness comes in waves. you will find it again.” ~ Invajy

• “A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.” ~ Bernard de Fontenelle

• “Happiness is acceptance ” ~ Invajy

• “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go” ~ Oscar Wilde
• “The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have , instead of what you don’t have.” ~ Woody Allen
• “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” ~ Buddha
• “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony ” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
• “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” ~  Abraham Lincoln

Quotes on Happiness

• “True happiness is…to enjoy the present , without anxious dependence upon the future.” ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
• “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” ~ Helen Keller
• “The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” ~ James M. Barrie
• “Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.” ~ Marquis de Condorcet
• “When it rains, look for rainbows. When it’s dark , look for stars.” ~  Invajy

• “Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
• “One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” ~ Rita Mae Brown
• “ Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” ~  Mother Theresa
• “Cry. Forgive . Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” ~ Steve Marabol
• “If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more. ” ~ Roy T. Bennett

Being Happy Quotes

• “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” ~ Ludwig Jacobowski
• “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.” ~ William James
• “Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.” ~ Lou Holtz
• “Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love , and something to hope for .” ~ Joseph Addison
• “Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
• “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
• “I am very happy because I have conquered myself and not the world. I am very happy because I have loved the world and not myself.” ~ Sri Chinmoy
• “Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive , good things and good people will be drawn to you.” ~ Mary Lou Retton
• “ Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful .” ~ Herman Cain
• “The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.” ~ Audrey Hepburn
• “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion . If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” ~ Dalai Lama
• “Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
• “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” ~ George Sand
• “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” ~ Dalai Lama
• “Being happy never goes out of style.” ~  Lilly Pulitzer
• “The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.” ~ Aesop
• “A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?” ~ Albert Einstein
• “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” ~ Epictetus
• “ Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” ~ Jim Rohn

Quotes about Happiness

• “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” ~ Mark Twain
• “The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
• “The secret to happiness is freedom … And the secret to freedom is courage .” ~ Thucydides
• “A happy life consists not in the absence , but in the mastery of hardships.” ~ Helen Keller
• “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” ~ Dale Carnegie

• 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
• “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts , liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes .” ~ Andrew Carnegie
• “The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go . ” ~ Dodinsky
• “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time .” ~ Marthe Troly-Curtin
• “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money ; it lies in the joy of achievement , in the thrill of creative effort.”  ~  Franklin D. Roosevelt
• “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” ~ James Oppenheim
• “There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.” ~ Anthony de Mello
• “Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” ~ Dennis Waitley
• “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” ~ Confucius
• “Happiness is living in the present moment . Mindfulness makes you happier than ever before.” ~ Invajy

• “Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.” ~ Gretta Brooker Palmer
• “The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” ~ Marcel Pagnol
• “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” ~ Aristotle
• “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”  ~ Confucius
• “Happiness is an art of never holding memories of any unpleasant thing that has passed.” ~ Invajy

Happiness Day Quotes

• “Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.” ~   Alan Cohen
• Happiness is a state where nothing is missing. ~ Naval Ravikant
• “The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.” ~ William Saroyan
• “We can’t control the world. We can only (barely) control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement.” ~   David C. Hill
• “Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.” ~ Friedrich Schiller
• “The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.” ~   Eric Hoffer
• “If you do not mess your mind, you will naturally be joyful.” ~ Sadhguru
• “The secret of happiness is low expectations.” ~ Barry Schwartz
• “Happiness comes from peace . Peace comes from indifference” ~ Naval Ravikant
• “As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.” ~ Andrew Delbanco

Feel Good Quotes

• “Happiness is always the serendipitous result of looking for something else.” ~ Dr. Idel Dreimer
• “Happiness is not a goal ; it is a by-product.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
• “Happiness is a place between too much and too little.” ~ Finnish proverb
• “All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.” ~ Baruch Spinoza
• “Happiness is not you get what you like. Happiness is you like what you get.” ~ Invajy
• “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” ~ Ayn Rand
• “The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life .” ~ William Morris
• “The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” ~ Ashley Montagu
• “Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.” ~  Benjamin Franklin
• “To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” ~ Bertrand Russell
• “Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
• “The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.” ~ Goldie Hawn
• “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
• “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” ~ William James 
• “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” ~  Robert Frost
• “There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.” ~ Freya Stark
• “There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
• “Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are.” ~ Chinese proverb
• “The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.” ~ Carl Sandburg
• “Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.” ~   Alan Cohen
• “Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” ~ Mother Teresa
• “Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
• “Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.” ~ Colette
• “Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude .” ~ Dale Carnegie
• “If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
• “A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.” ~ Albert Einstein
• “Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
• “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” ~ Jonathan Safran Foer
• “Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness.” ~ Christian Dior
• “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” ~ Steve Maraboli
• “The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.” ~  George Bernard Shaw
• “Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.” ~ Robert S. Lynd
• “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
• “Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.”  ~  Sri Chinmoy
• “One joy scatters a hundred griefs.” ~ Chinese Proverb
• “Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.” ~ Stephen Fry
• “We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.” ~  Walter Savage Landor
• “We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.” ~  George Bernard Shaw
• “The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.” ~  Robert Louis Stevenson
• “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” ~ Omar Khayyam
• “People say that money isn’t the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.” ~ Joan Rivers
• “If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.” ~ Mother Teresa
• “Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.” ~ J. K. Rowling
• “Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called ‘all the things that could go wrong.’” ~ Marianne Williamson
• “I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.” ~ Paul Simon
• “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” ~ Maya Angelou
• “Happiness is like a cloud — if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.” ~ Sarah McLachlan
• “Be happy in your body. It’s the only one you’ve got, so you might as well like it.” ~ Keira Knightley
• “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” ~ Steven Kloves
• “In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness — otherwise, how would you know when you’re happy?” ~ Leslie Caron
• “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” ~  Albert Camus
• “Recognizing and appreciating what you have in life brings happiness.” ~ Invajy
• “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
• “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
• “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” ~ George Burns
• “To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.” ~ Gustave Flaubert
• “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” ~ Dale Carnegie
• “Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
• “Be happy. It really annoys negative people .” ~ Ricky Gervais
• “Happiness, in truth , lies within you. Starting from you and ending with you.” ~ Invajy
• “Happiness is an inside job.” ~ William Arthur Ward
• “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
• “We are born with happiness, joy and fun; Why do we search it outside?” ~ Invajy
• “Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.” ~ Milton Erickson
• “I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.” ~  Dalai Lama
• “People should find happiness in the little things, like family .” ~ Amanda Bynes
• “Happiness, not in another place but this place… not for another hour, but this hour.” ~ Walt Whitman
• “He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
• “True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” ~ Helen Keller
• “Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happy Life Quotes

• “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” ~ Tom Bodett
• “Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you’ve got.” ~ Rosamunde Pilcher
• “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!” ~ Dolly Parton
• “Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower.” ~ John Harrigan
• “It’s not about being happy all the time, or being sure of all your choices. It’s about knowing that life is precious, even when it’s tough.” ~ Topher Kearby
• “I have chosen to be happy because it’s good for my health.” ~ Voltaire
• “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ~ Marcel Proust
• “Happiness is a warm puppy .” ~ Charles M. Schulz
• “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.” ~ Mark Twain
• “It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” ~ Lucille Ball

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All are beautiful and thoughts provoking, nice quotes

Dear Blackvillan,

Thanks for commenting and appreciating …

Nice collection!!!

Thanks Rahul ji

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