I was feeling extra peppy today so I decided to find the most wonderful happy quotes. Who knew there were so many happiness quotes out there. Phew! Are people inherently happy? Of course! You wouldn’t think so if you read the news though.
It seems like the world is this awful, awful place. Although it might be at times, it’s not so grim all the time for sure. You can’t worry about all the world’s problems. Here’s a piece of advice – pick one or only a few topics you’ll worry about deeply and leave the rest to other people. You only have so much energy, so don’t let all the world’s problems deplete it.
Celebrate happiness with these beautiful and thought-provoking quotes. Share them with friends and family. Let them know it’s ok to be happy!
What’s Happiness Quotes
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
What’s Happiness Quotes
― George Burns
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain
“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get”
― W. P. Kinsella
“It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami
“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
What’s Happiness Quotes
― Orhan Pamuk
“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.”
― Steve Maraboli
“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
― Charlotte Bronte
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
― Aristotle
“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”
― Daphne Du Maurier
“Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
What’s Happiness Quotes
― Robert Frost
“It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life”
― Henrik Ibsen
“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
“Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.”
― Laini Taylor
“Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.”
― Sarah Addison Allen
“Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.”
Happy Quotes
― Alex Flinn
“Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”
― Joanne Harri
“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
To Be Happy Quotes
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes”.”
― Lauren Oliver
“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
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.”
To Be Happy Quotes
― Sylvia Plath
“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
“Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.”
― Roy T. Bennet
“Maybe the truth is, there’s a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn’t having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it’s about stringing together all the little things.”
― Ann Brashares
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.”
To Be Happy Quotes
― Audrey Hepburn
“Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
― Neil Gaiman
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
To Be Happy Quotes
― Guillaume Apollinaire
“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.
“If only we’d stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”
― Edith Wharton
“Be believing, be happy, don’t get discouraged. Things will work out.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley
“It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don’t know everything.”
To Be Happy Quotes
― Alexander McCall Smith
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
― Dalai Lama XIV
“To be happy, make others happy.”
― Stephen Richards
“Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are”
― Germany Kent
“Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.”
― Leo Tolstoy
Happy With Life Quotes
“Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections”
― Bob Marley
“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
“Whoever is happy will make others happy.”
Happy With Life Quotes
― Anne Frank
“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”
― Steve Maraboli
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius
“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
Happy With Life Quotes
― George Washington Burnap
“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”
― Jane Austen
“Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don’t take control of yourself and your own life, someone else is bound to try.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called “All the Things That Could Go Wrong.”
― Marianne Williamson
“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
Happy With Life Quotes
― Louisa May Alcott
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
― Marcus Aurelius
“Nothing makes a person happier than having a happy heart.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“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 Brontë
“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”
― Anne Frank
“Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.”
Happy With Life Quotes
― Steve Maraboli
“I figure, sometimes, bad things happen to us so we can achieve a higher purpose and attain greater happiness and fulfillment in life.”
― Omoakhuana Anthonia
“Key to be happy in life: Don’t take it personally and don’t except to any thing or anyone.”
― Jigar Pandya
“I was happy as a child that’s why I’m luckier than you.”
― MJ Jabican
“Mostly Life gives me Happiness on Lease,
So I rent it whenever I can!”
― Somya Kedia
What Is True Happiness Quotes
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
What Is True Happiness Quotes
― Mahatma Gandhi
“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
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
“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
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
What Is True Happiness Quotes
― Chuck Palahniuk
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
― Bertrand Russell
“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
“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
“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
“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”
What Is True Happiness Quotes
― Carrie Jones
“People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat–that’s the only moral they know.”
― Dany Laferrière
“A mathematical formula for happiness: Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.”
― Jodi Picoult
“Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.”
What Is True Happiness Quotes
― Hafez
“Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn’t depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.”
― Dale Carnegie
“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”
― Jane Austen
“To buy a cake… to howl at the moon… to know true happiness… I am happy.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“When you discover true happiness you will find that you are wealthier beyond the dreams of kings.”
What Is True Happiness Quotes
― Jeffrey Fry
“Seeking external validation brings disappointment. Validate yourself from within to find true happiness.”
― Amy Leigh Mercree
“Learn to be your own best friend first then you will find true happiness, because happiness is from within.”
― Gift Gugu Mona
Happy Birthday Quotes
“God bless you today and always and may all your goals come true.”
― Auliq Ice
“The day you were born
Heaven wept at its great loss,
Earth joyed at its gain.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich
“A happy birthday is measured not in the amount one of gifts, but in the amount one is loved.”
― Todd Stocker
“Another year of life is a gift from God. May He continue to bless you with strength to conquer your challenges, wisdom to choose your battles carefully, faith that your steps have already been ordered and confidence to trust that no one person or situation can undo what He has already set in motion. – Happy Birthday!”
― Carlos Wallace
“May today be the best birthday of your life, I give you my heart as the most precious gift I can give you and I promise I always will love you.”
― Auliq Ice
Short Happy Quotes
“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”
― Douglas Adams
“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
― Honoré de Balzac
“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
― Jon Krakauer
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway
“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
Short Happy Quotes
― Charles M. Schulz
“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
― Rita Mae Brown
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
― Aristotle
“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
Short Happy Quotes
― Charles Bukowski
“Laughter is poison to fear.”
― George R.R. Martin
“Delete Backups & Restore YourSelf.”
― Md Niyaz Hussain
“A smile is made up of 1% muscles and 99% happiness.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo
“If you want to be happy, be with a happy person..”
Short Happy Quotes
― Unknown
“Do not take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.”
― Mohsin Jameel
“A happy man is a wealthy man.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo
“We all die. Not all of us live.”
― Edie Littlefield Sundby
“A happy life is a virtuous life.”
― Omoakhuana Anthonia
“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.”
Short Happy Quotes
― Aeschylus
“Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.”
― Jacqueline Kelly
“Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.”
― George Washington
