Happiness is a jewel whose price isn’t weighted in gold or money, neither can it be purchased. How can you keep yourself happy despite the depressing and weighing activities around us? Here are 169 inspiring quotes about happiness from business people, entertainers, spiritual leaders, writers, philosophers, sports figures, women’s advocates, artists, mindfulness experts, political leaders, academics, and unknown people:
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169 Short Happiness Quotes From Famous and Unknown People
Quotes from Business People
Joseph Addison said “Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” Your business values express someone to love, your business mission communicates something to do, and your business vision gives you something to hope for. Pursue your business values, vision, and mission and you can achieve happiness. -Alan Melton
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. -Dale Carnegie
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. -Jim Rohn
It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do that have given me true happiness. -Richard Branson
Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. -Dale Carnegie
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. -Andrew Carnegie
Happiness comes from peace. Peace comes from indifference. –Naval Ravikant
Happiness is a state where nothing is missing. -Naval Ravikant
That’s your unlimited desires that are clouding your peace, your happiness. -Naval Ravikant
Not wanting something is as good as having it. -Naval Ravikant
Happiness is a choice and a skill, and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice. -Naval Ravikant
School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards – wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity – come from ignoring others and improving ourselves. -Naval Ravikant
Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson. -Alan Cohen
Happiness is the default state. It’s what’s there when you remove the sense that something is missing in life. -Naval Ravikant
Short Happiness Quotes from Entertainers
Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you. -Beyoncé
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. -Oprah Winfrey
Every day is a new day. -Carrie Underwood
The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy. It’s all that matters. -Audrey Hepburn
Happiness is the best makeup. -Drew Barrymore
Roll with the punches and enjoy every minute of it. -Meghan Markle
Simplicity makes me happy. -Alicia Keys
The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are. -Goldie Hawn
The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters. -Audrey Hepburn
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. -Oprah Winfrey
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. -Bernard Meltzer
If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us. -Richard Carlson
Quotes from Spiritual Leaders
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. -Charles Spurgeon
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier. -Mother Teresa
Suppose you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. -Dalai Lama
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions. -Dalai Lama
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. -Mahatma Gandhi
In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change lies our happiness and freedom. -Buddha
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. -Buddha
The purpose of our lives is to be happy. -Dalai Lama
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. -Mother Teresa
Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose. -C.S. Lewis
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions. -Dalai Lama
Life is the dancer, and you are the dance. -Eckhart Tolle
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. -Augustine of Hippo
You can only have bliss if you don’t chase it. -Henepola Gunaratana
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
Happiness does not lead to gratitude. Gratitude leads to happiness. -David Steindl-Rast
I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. -Albert Schweitzer
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
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. -Thich Nhat Hanh
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. -Albert Schweitzer
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. -Reinhold Niebuhr
There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way. -Thich Nhat Hanh (notable-quotes.com)
Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered. -Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine. -Henry Ward Beecher
Short Happiness Quotes from Writers
The mere sense of living is joy enough. -Emily Dickinson
Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings.
– The Pursuit of Happyness
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -Ernest Hemingway
If you want to be happy, be. -Leo Tolstoy
Happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it but to delight in it when it comes. -Charles Dickens
A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to having it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness. -Leo Tolstoy (Family Happiness)
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. -Carl Sandburg
The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on. -Julia Alvarez
No medicine cures what happiness cannot. -Gabriel García Márquez
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. -Maya Angelou
Embrace the glorious mess that you are. -Elizabeth Gilbert
If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams, and you will always look lovely. -Roald Dahl
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist. -Oscar Wilde
We love because it’s the only true adventure. -Nikki Giovanni
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. -Colette
Happiness is an inside job. – William Arthur Ward
My mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. – Maya Angelou
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. – Anton Chekhov
Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness. -Steve Maraboli
Happiness is a function of accepting what is. -Werner Erhard
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
True happiness is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -Helen Keller
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. -Marthe Troly-Curtin
Now and then, it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. -Guillaume Apollinaire
Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened. -Ludwig Jacobowski
Enjoy it. Because it’s happening. -Stephen Chbosky
Happiness is a direction, not a place. -Sydney J. Harris
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
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self. -Joseph Addison
Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and poor memory. -Albert Schweitzer
Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour. -Walt Whitman
Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive. -Elbert Hubbard
The constant happiness is curiosity. -Alice Munro
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise. -Colette
Being happy is not the only happiness. -Alice Walker
All happiness depends on courage and work. -Honoré de Balzac
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. -James Oppenheim
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. -George Sand
Whoever is happy will make others happy. -Anne Frank
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. -William Saroyan
People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat – that’s the only moral they know. -Dany Laferrière
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. -Chuck Palahniuk
The secret of happiness is freedom; the secret of freedom is courage. -Carrie Jones
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 only joy in the world is to begin. -Cesare Pavese
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others. -Aesop
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
“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon. -Winnie the Pooh
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
There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations. -Jodi Picoult
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. -Freya Stark
Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerators and denominator of the fraction called happiness? -Yevgeny Zamyatin
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us to a wild-goose chase and is never attained. -Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sometimes we don’t find the thing that will make us happy because we can’t give up the thing that was supposed to. -Robert Brault
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. -Mark Twain
Short Happiness Quotes from Political Leaders
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
Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. Abraham Lincoln
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. Nelson Mandela
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli
Short Happiness Quotes from Artists
Beauty is everywhere. You only have to look to see it. Bob Ross
Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness. Frank Tyger
Doing what you were born to do… That’s the way to be happy. Agnes Martin
Short Happiness Quotes from Sports Figures
Happiness is not doing fun things. Happiness is doing meaningful things. Maxime Lagacé
The truly wise and happy are never rushed. Maxime Lagacé
The greatest secret to happiness and peace is letting every life situation be what it is, instead of what you think it should be. Then, make the very best of it. Thibaut
Seek it outside, and you’ll be exhausted. Seek it inside, and you’ll find a path. Maxime Lagacé
Stop being busy. Start being present. Maxime Lagacé
Being happy is being satisfied. Being satisfied means accepting. Maxime Lagacé
Truly happy people don’t need to show others that they are. Maxime Lagacé
Your mind will seek security and comfort in accumulation (of knowledge, material, status, etc.). This is a never-ending game. Be above that. Play the long game. Maxime Lagacé
Say “no” more often so you can say “yes” to what’s important. Maxime Lagacé
Quotes from Academics
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to swim. Jon Kabat Zinn
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Albert Einstein
Short Happiness Quotes From Women’s Rights Advocates
Independence is happiness. Susan B. Anthony
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. Rita Mae Brown
Usefulness is happiness, and… all other things are but incidental. Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife
Quotes From Mindfulness Experts
If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more. Roy T. Bennett
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. Wayne Dyer
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable than risk being happy. Dr. Robert Anthony
Short Happiness Quotes From Philosophers
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness. Ayn Rand
Happiness is that state of consciousness that proceeds from the achievement of one’s values. Ayn Rand
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. Marcus Aurelius
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius
We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh. William James
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. Seneca
I’m happy. Which often looks like crazy. David Henry Hwang
What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome. Friedrich Nietzsche
What you do not want to be done to yourself, do not do to others. Confucius
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. Albert Camus
Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. Seneca
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom. Arthur Schopenhauer
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles; it only changes them. Seneca
Happiness is a state of activity. Aristotle
The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us the greatest delight. Epictetus
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality. Seneca
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy. Heraclitus
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. Aristotle
Tension is who you think you should be; relaxation is who you are. Chinese proverb
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. Arthur Schopenhauer
There is some kind of 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.
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. John Stuart Mill
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. Niccolo Machiavelli
Tension is who you think you should be; relaxation is who you are. Chinese proverb
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
Short Happiness Quotes from Unknown People
Start each day with a grateful heart. -Unknown
When it rains, look for rainbows. When it’s dark, look for stars. -Unknown
Happiness is inversely correlated with desire. -Unknown
Happiness is acceptance. -Unknown
Happiness is not out there; it’s in you. -Unknown
A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. -Unknown
Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. -Unknown
There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness. -Unknown
You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy ice cream. And that’s kind of the same thing. -Unknown
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