Everyone chases after Happiness. After all, life’s better when we’re happy, healthy, and successful. But few understand where it comes from. There is no single definition of happiness. Happiness isn’t a destination but a journey you’re experiencing every day, embracing the negative and the positive.

Here, we’ve compiled the very best, most inspiring quotes about happiness in the hopes that they’ll help to put a smile on your face. From Walt Disney’s famous positive quote about happiness being a mindset (“Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things”) to Albert Einstein’s thoughts on the peaceful life (“A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness”), there’s something here for just about everyone.

These happiness quotes will help you understand the true meaning of happiness, and hopefully, you’ll stop finding happiness and start experiencing it. And please remember, the happiest and wisest people are the ones who chase nothing. They say “yes” to what happens. Enjoy!

300 Best Happy Quotes – Quotes to Make You Happy

Top 10 Happiness Quotes

“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

“We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.” – Dalai Lama

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Theresa

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

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

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore

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

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

“Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” – Helen Keller

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde

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“Happiness is a warm puppy.” – Charles M. Schulz

“Happiness is a state where nothing is missing.” – Naval Ravikant

“Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.” – Walt Disney

“Happiness is a state of activity.” – Aristotle

“Happiness is a place between too much and too little.” – Finnish proverb

“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 how; not a what. A talent, not an object.” – Herman Hesse

“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.” – Charles Dickens

“Happiness is a function of accepting what is.” – Werner Erhard

“Happiness is a form of courage.” – Holbrook Jackson

“Happiness is a direction, not a place.” – Sydney J. Harris

“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.” – Mildred Barthel

“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

“Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice.” – Naval Ravikant

“Happiness is an inside job.” – William Arthur Ward

“Happiness is only real when shared” – Jon Krakauer

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

“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 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 the natural flower of duty.” – Phillips Brooks

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

“Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.” – Don Marquis

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

“Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.” – Unknown

“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.” – Ayn Rand

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.” – Rose Lane

“Happiness is only real when shared.” – Jon Krakauer

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” – Albert Schweitzer

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

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

“Happiness is not out there, it’s in you.”

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

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

“Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” – Margaret Lee Runbeck

“Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“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 inversely correlated with desire.”

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.” – Orhan Pamuk

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

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

“Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy.” – J.M. Reinoso

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

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

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

“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

“Happiness is acceptance.”

“Independence is happiness.” – Susan B. Anthony

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

“Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory.” – Albert Schweitzer

“Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour.” – Walt Whitman

“Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.” – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

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

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” – Ernest Hemingway

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

“Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.” – Dale Carnegie

“Happiness does not lead to gratitude. Gratitude leads to happiness.” – David Steindl-Rast

“Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.” – Aristotle

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

“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

“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

“Happiness comes when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offer thanks for all the troubles we don’t have.”

“Happiness comes from peace. Peace comes from indifference.” – Naval Ravikant

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

“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

“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

“The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.” – Thucydides

“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.” – Carl Sandburg

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

“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

“Usefulness is happiness, and… all other things are but incidental.” – Lydia Maria Child

“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

“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

“What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

Short Happiness Quotes

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“If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy

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

“All happiness depends on courage and work.” – Honoré de Balzac

“Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.” – Colette

“Be happy. It really annoys negative people.” – Ricky Gervais

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

“Being happy never goes out of style.” – Lily Pulitzer

“Being happy is not the only happiness.” – Alice Walker

“Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.” – C.S. Lewis

“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” – Dennis Waitley

“Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.” – Friedrich Schiller

“I’m happy. Which often looks like crazy.” – David Henry Hwang

“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.” – Douglas Adams

“If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.” – Taisen Deshimaru

“If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us.” – Richard Carlson

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

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” – Gabriel García Márquez

“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” – Rita Mae Brown

“One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows.” – Chinese proverb

“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.” – Heraclitus

“Simplicity makes me happy.” – Alicia Keys

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.” – Mark Twain

“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” – W.P. Kinsella

“The constant happiness is curiosity.” – Alice Munro

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

“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

“There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.” – Lady Blessington

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

“There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.”

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” – Albert Camus

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

“We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.” – William James

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

“Whoever is happy will make others happy.” – Anne Frank

“Happy girls are the prettiest.” – Audrey Hepburn

Funny Happiness Quotes

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“The thicker the skin, the happier the man.”

“You can’t buy happiness but you can buy ice cream. And that’s kind of the same thing.”

“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.” – Will Ferrell

“You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair.” – Chinese proverb

“You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that you have to live each day like it’s your last. Bullshit. Life is long. You’re probably not gonna get hit by a bus. And you’re gonna have to live with the choices you make for the next fifty years.” – Chris Rock

“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.” – Gertrude Stein

“If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.” – Groucho Marx

“The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth.” – Jim Harrison

“Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.” – Bill Vaughan

“Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.” – Thomas Szasz

“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

Famous Happiness Quotes

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“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” – The Dalai Lama

“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?” – Albert Einstein

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

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

“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

“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

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.” – Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice, Amazon)

“If a person’s basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring.” – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

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

“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

“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.” – Dale Carnegie

“It’s kind of overwhelming right now, … I can barely walk. I’m tired and sore, but really happy to have finished.” – Chris Connelly

“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

“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

“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds 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

“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” – Henry Ward Beecher

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

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

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

“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

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

“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.” – Winston Churchill

“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 which has opened for us.” – Helen Keller

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

“And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.” – Confucius

“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

True Happiness Quotes

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“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.” – Seneca

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

“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.” – Joseph Addison

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

“The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” – M. Scott Peck

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

“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

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

“I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.” – Audrey Hepburn

“A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.” – Thomas Jefferson

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

“Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” – Andy Rooney

“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

“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.” – Nikos Kazantzakis

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

“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.” – Epicurus

“If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.” – Roy T. Bennett

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

“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

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

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

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

“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.” – Andre Maurois

“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

Finding Happiness Quotes

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“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. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” – Buddha

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

“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

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

“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

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

“Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.” – Charles Caleb Colton

“It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

“If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.” – Mother Teresa

“If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.” – Mother Teresa

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

“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

“Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.” – Carrie Underwood

“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“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 greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.” – William Saroyan

“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” – Ashley Montagu

“The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.” – Woody Allen

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

“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

“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.” – Gustave Flaubert

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

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

“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

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” – William James

Love And Happiness Quotes

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“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.” – Mary Stuart

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” – Eskimo Proverb

“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

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” – Bertrand Russell

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

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

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

“If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” – Roald Dahl

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

“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

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

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

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

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

“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

“You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.” – Julia Roberts

Choose Happiness Quotes

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“The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go.” – Dodinsky

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” – Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” – Groucho Marx

“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” – Steve Maraboli

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

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

“Doing what you were born to do… That’s the way to be happy.” – Agnes Martin

Happiness Quotes For Life

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“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

“Train your mind to see the good in everything. Positivity is a choice. The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.”

“Sometimes life knocks you on your ass… get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” – Steve Maraboli

“The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.” – Brian Tracy

“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

“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. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” – Earl Nightingale

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

“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

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius

“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 have 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

“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

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

“The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” – George Washington Burnap

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

“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” – Diane Ackerman

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

“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” – Will Rogers

“The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.” – William Phelps

“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

“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

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” – Louisa May Alcott

“Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others…By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.” – Gordon B. Hinckley

“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 most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.” – Audrey Hepburn

“A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.” – Albert Einstein

“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

“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

Happiness Quotes For Kids

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“Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called “All the Things That Could Go Wrong.” – Marianne Williamson

“To every child – I dream of a world where you can laugh, dance, sing, learn, live in peace and be happy.” – Malala Yousafzai

“A child can teach an adult three things… To be happy for no reason. To always be busy with something. And to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.” – Paulo Coelho

“There are three things that a child can teach an adult: To be happy for no reason; to be always busy doing something; And to know how to demand – with all one’s might – what one wants.” – Paulo Coelho

“If you make children happy now, you make make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.”

Happiness Quotes From The Bible

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“Your regulations remain true to this day, for everything serves your plans. If your instructions hadn’t sustained me with joy, I would have died in my misery. I will never forget your commandments, for by them you give me life.” – Psalm 119: 91-93

“You will show me the way of life, granting me the joy of your presence and the pleasures of living with you forever.” – Psalm 16:11

“You have turned my mourning into joyful dancing. You have taken away my clothes of mourning and clothed me with joy,” – Psalm 30:11

“Those who plant in tears will harvest with shouts of joy.” – Psalm 126:5

“Those who look to him for help will be radiant with joy; no shadow of shame will darken their faces.” – Psalm 34: 5

“Those who listen to instruction will prosper; those who trust the Lord will be joyful.” – Psalm 16:20

“The Lord is my strength and shield. I trust him with all my heart. He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy. I burst out in songs of thanksgiving.” – Psalm 28:7

“The commandments of the Lord are right, bringing joy to the heart. The commands of the Lord are clear, giving insight into living.” – Psalm 19:8

“So, we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding. Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better. We also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power, so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. May you be filled with joy, always thanking the Father. He has enabled you to share in the inheritance that belongs to his people, who live in the light.” – Colossians 1:9-12

“Our hearts ache, but we always have joy. We are poor, but we give spiritual riches to others. We own nothing, and yet we have everything.” – 2 Corinthians 6:10

“Oh, the joys of those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand around with sinners, or join in with mockers. But they delight in the law of the Lord, meditating on it day and night. They are like trees planted along the riverbank, bearing fruit each season. Their leaves never wither, and they prosper in all they do.” – Psalm 1: 1-3

“Now I want you to know, dear brothers and sisters, what God in his kindness has done through the churches in Macedonia. Many troubles are testing them, and they are very poor. But they are also filled with abundant joy, which has overflowed in rich generosity. I can testify that they gave not only what they could afford, but far more. And they did it of their own free will.” – 2 Corinthians 8:1-3

“Joyful are people of integrity, who follow the instructions of the Lord. Joyful are those who obey his laws and search for him with all their hearts. They do not compromise with evil, and they walk only in his paths.” – Psalm 119: 1-3

“I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.” – Psalm 15: 13

“Dear brothers and sisters, when troubles of any kind come your way, consider it an opportunity for great joy. For you know that when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing.” – James 1: 2-4

“And so, my children, listen to me, for all who follow my ways are joyful. Listen to my instruction and be wise. Don’t ignore it. Joyful are those who listen to me, watching for me daily at my gates, waiting for me outside my home! For whoever finds me finds life and receives favor from the Lord.” – Proverbs 8:32-35

Happiness In Yourself Quotes

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

“Your work is discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” – Buddha

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

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” – Confucius

“The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself.” – Ellen DeGeneres

“The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.” – Benjamin Franklin

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

“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

“Every time you feel yourself being pulled into other people’s drama, repeat these word: Not my circus, not my monkeys.” – Polish Proverb

“Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.” – Stacey Charter

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

“Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.” –