Step into a realm of joy and inspiration as we present a handpicked collection of happiness quotes.In this treasury of uplifting words,discover the profound wisdom that celebrates the art of being happy.From timeless philosophies to modern insights,our compilation is a beacon of positivity.Let these happiness quotes be your guide to embracing joy,cultivating gratitude,and finding the beauty in every moment.Join us on a journey to explore the essence of happiness through these enlightening and empowering quotes.
Happiness quotes: 
1. “Some cause happiness wherever they go;others whenever they go.”—Oscar Wilde
2. “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 
3. “Happiness is not something ready-made.It comes from your own actions.”—Dalai Lama 
4. “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 
5. “It’s a helluva start,being able to recognize what makes you happy.”—Lucille Ball 
6. “Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,of just going along,listening to all the things you can’t hear,and not bothering.”—Winnie the Pooh 
7. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”—Aristotle 
8. “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 
Feeling happy quotes: 
9. “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 
10. “I’d far rather be happy than right any day.”—Douglas Adams
11. "If you want to be happy,set a goal that commands your thoughts,liberates your energy,and inspires your hopes."—Andrew Carnegie 
12. "Tension is who you think you should be,relaxation is who you are."—Chinese Proverb 
13. "Happiness is not a station you arrive at,but a manner of traveling."—Margaret Lee Runbeck 
14. “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 
15. "True happiness is not attained through self-gratification,but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."—Helen Keller 
16. "Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting."—Bernard Meltzer 
True happiness quotes: 
17. "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 
18. "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 
19. "Success is getting what you want.Happiness is wanting what you get."—Dale Carnegie 
20. “All happiness depends on courage and work.”―Honoré de Balzac
21. “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 
22. “Very little is needed to make a happy life;it is all within yourself,in your way of thinking.”—Marcus Aurelius Antoninus 
23. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance,the wise grows it under his feet.”—James Oppenheim 
24. “Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”—Albert Schweitzer 
Self happiness quotes: 
25. “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 
26. “If someone bases his/her happiness on major events like a great job,huge amounts of money,a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris,that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time.If,on the other hand,happiness depends on a good breakfast,flowers in the yard,a drink or a nap,then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.”—Andy Rooney 
27. “The first recipe for happiness is:avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”—Andre Maurois 
28. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy;they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”—Marcel Proust 
29. “Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”—Abraham Lincoln 
30. “Happiness is a warm puppy.”―Charles M.Schulz
31. “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 
32. "Far better is it to dare mighty things,to win glorious triumphs--even though checkered by failure--than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."—Theodore Roosevelt 
Happiness quotes short: 
33. “Happiness is when what you think,what you say,and what you do are in harmony.”—Mahatma Gandhi
34. “There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard.Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”―Stephen Chbosky 
35. “Count your age by friends,not years.Count your life by smiles,not tears.”―John Lennon 
36. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold,it would be a merrier world.”―J.R.R.Tolkien 
37. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.”―Audrey Hepburn 
38. "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 
39. "We all get report cards in many different ways,but the real excitement of what you're doing is in the doing of it.It's not what you're gonna get in the end—it's not the final curtain—it's really in the doing it,and loving what you're doing."—Ralph Lauren 
41. “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”—Mother Teresa 
42. “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 
43. “Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”―Guillaume Apollinaire 
44. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”―Marcus Aurelius 
45. “Happiness is not the absence of problems,it's the ability to deal with them.”―Steve Maraboli 
46. “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. 
47. “I'm choosing happiness over suffering,I know I am.I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”―Elizabeth Gilbert 
48. “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 
Woman happiness quotes: 
49. “Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”―Orhan Pamuk 
50. “Happiness only real when shared.”―Christopher McCandless
51. “Happiness is not a possession to be prized,it is a quality of thought,a state of mind.”―Daphne du Maurier 
52. “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 
53. “The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”—Louisa May Alcott 
54. “Action may not always bring happiness,but there is no happiness without action.”―William James 
55. “If only we'd stop trying to be happy,we could have a pretty good time.”—Edith Wharton 
56. “Happiness is a risk.If you’re not a little scared,then you’re not doing it right.”―Sarah Addison Allen 
Happy moments quotes: 
57. “The more you praise and celebrate your life,the more there is in life to celebrate.”―Oprah Winfrey 
58. “All I ask is one thing,and I’m asking this particularly of young people:please don’t be cynical.I hate cynicism,for the record,it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere.Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get.But if you work really hard and you’re kind,amazing things will happen.”―Conan O'Brien 
59. “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 
60. “You must be the best judge of your own happiness.”―Jane Austen
61. “Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”―Ralph Waldo Emerson 
62. “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain,but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”―Andy Rooney 
63. “Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections”―Bob Marley 
64. “One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy.”—Leo Tolstoy 
Family happiness quotes: 
65. “The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes,but in liking what one does.”―J.M.Barrie 
66. “For just one second,look at your life and see how perfect it is.Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life.Stop waiting.This is it: there's nothing else.It's here,and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go,for the rest of your life, forever.”―Lev Grossman 
67. “The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions,and not upon our circumstances.”―Martha Washington 
68. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ”―Epictetus 
69. “One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness:simple tastes,a certain degree of courage,self-denial to a point,love of work,and above all,a clear conscience.”―George Sand 
70. “You can't buy happiness”―Kurt Cobain
71. “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 
72. “I shall take the heart.For brains do not make one happy,and happiness is the best thing in the world.”―L.Frank Baum 
Funny Happiness Quotes: 
73. “My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance,and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”―Michael J.Fox 
74. “There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious.It is too good to waste on jokes.”―C.S.Lewis 
75. “Most people would rather be certain they're miserable,than risk being happy.”―Robert Anthon 
76. “Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.”―Aeschylus 
77. “I do not think we have a‘right’to happiness.If happiness happens, say thanks.”―Marlene Dietrich 
78. “Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life,by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.”―Epicurus 
79. “Got no checkbooks,got no banks.Still I'd like to express my thanks—I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.”―Irving Berlin 
81. “Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others,when we can find it in our own hearts?”―Jean-Jacques Rousseau 
82. “Do not look for happiness outside yourself.The awakened seek happiness inside.”―Peter Deunov 
83. “Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons:We must fight in order to conquer it.”―Alexandre Dumas 
84. “Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.”―Honoré de Balzac 
85. “Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear”―Taylor Swift 
86. “Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.”―Thomas Mann 
87. “The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself.”―Ellen DeGeneres 
88. “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”—Victor Hugo 
Quotes About Happiness and Smiling: 
89. “Why not seize the pleasure at once?--How often is happiness destroyed by preparation,foolish preparation!”―Jane Austen 
90. “I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.”―Sarah Addison Allen
91. “It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.Infidelity does not consist in believing,or in disbelieving,it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.”―Thomas Paine 
92. “Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it,but to delight in it when it comes.”―Charles Dickens 
93. “Happiness doesn't come from achievements,or money,or any sort of treasure.Happiness is a frame of mind,not a destination.It's appreciating what you've got and building relationships with those around you.”―Janette Rallison 
94. “If you want to find happiness,find gratitude.”―Steve Maraboli 
95. “The secret of a happy life is respect.Respect for yourself and respect for others.”―Ayad Akhtar 
96. “Happiness comes from living as you need to,as you want to.As your inner voice tells you to.Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be.”—Shonda Rhimes 
Quotes About Being Happy With Yourself: 
97. “We are all happy if we but knew it.”―Fyodor Dostoyevsky 
98. “It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors,or even our relations.”―Bertrand Russell 
99. “I've learned....That when you harbor bitterness,happiness will dock elsewhere.”―Andy Rooney 
100. “You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.”―Andy Warhol
101. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life–to be happy.It’s all that matters.”–Audrey Hepburn 
102. “Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself.”–Ralph Waldo Emerson 
103. “Never regret anything that made you smile.”–Mark Twain 
104. “Happiness is the best makeup.”–Drew Barrymore 
Best happiness quotes about life and love: 
105. “Happiness is a state of mind.It’s just according to the way you look at things.”–Walt Disney 
106. “If you want to be happy,be.”–Leo Tolstoy 
107. “Independence is happiness.”–Susan B. Anthony 
108. “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”–Anne Frank 
109. “Simplicity makes me happy.”–Alicia Keys 
110. “Life is too short to spend it at war with yourself.”–Unknown
111. “Happiness is when what you think,what you say,and what you do are in harmony.”–Mahatma Gandhi 
112. “Happiness is the secret to all beauty.There is no beauty without happiness.”–Christian Dior 
Quotes about happiness and change in your life: 
113. “Happiness isn’t a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.”–Eleanor Roosevelt 
114. “There is no path to happiness.Happiness is the path.”–Buddha 
115. “Happiness comes in waves.It’ll always come back.”–Unknown 
116. “The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are.”–Goldie Hawn 
117. “Real happiness is cheap enough,yet how dearly we pay for it is counterfeit.”–Hosea Ballou 
118. “There is only one happiness in life,to love and be loved.”–George Sand 
119. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine and the shadow will fall behind you.”–Walt Whitman 
121. “True happiness…is not attained through self-gratification,but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”–Helen Keller 
122. “Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love,grace,and gratitude.”–Denis Waitley 
123. “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 
124. “Always keep your chin up,otherwise you’re just staring at your boobs all day.”–Unknown 
125. “Some people call me crazy.I prefer the term happy with a twist.”–Unknown 
126. “Breathe in the good shit,breathe out the bullshit.”–Karen Salmansohn 
127. “They say money doesn’t bring happiness,but everyone still goes out there to see it for themselves.”–Unknown 
128. “Life is short.Smile while you still have teeth.”–Mallory Hopkins 
Quotes on happiness and our choices: 
129. “Whenever I have a problem,I sing.Then I realize that my voice is worse than my problem.”–Unknown 
130. “It’s okay if you don’t like me.Not everyone has good taste.”–Unknown
131. “Never let anyone treat you like you’re regular glue.You’re glitter glue.”–Unknown 
132. “The older you get the better you get…unless you’re a banana.”–Betty White 
133. “My dream job would be the Karma Delivery Service.”–Bill Murray 
134. “Life is better when you cry a little,laugh a lot,and are thankful for everything you’ve got.”–Unknown 
135. “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”–E.E.Cummings 
136. “Trouble knocked at the door,but hearing laughter,hurried away.”–Benjamin Franklin 
Quotes on being happy,right here and right now: 
137. “Laughter is timeless,imagination has no age,and dreams are forever.”–Walt Disney 
138. “Laughter is an instant vacation.”–Milton Berle 
139“Laughter is the best medicine.But if you’re laughing without any reason,you need medicine.”–Unknown 
140. “Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing.”–Jarod Kintz
141. “You don’t stop laughing because you grow older.You grow older because you stop laughing.”–Maurice Chevalier 
142. “And finally,in all of living have much of fun and laughter.Life is to be enjoyed,not just endured.”–Gordon B.Hinchley 
143. “Life is better when you’re laughing.”–Unknown 
144. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”–Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Happy quotes that make pain less distracting: 
145. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”–C.S.Lewis 
146. “The secret to having it all…is knowing you already do.”–Unknown 
147. “Happiness is a direction,not a place.”–Sydney J.Harris 
148. “But if you’re broken,you don’t have to stay broken.”–Selena Gomez 
149.“Comparison is an act of violence against the self.”–Iyanla Vanzant 
150. “You’ve survived 100% of your worst days.”–Unknown
151. “She wore a smile like a loaded gun.”–Atticus 
152. “I just want to spend the rest of my life laughing.”–Unknown 
Happiness quotes love life to bring smile on your face: 
153. “Happiness is an inside job.”–Unknown 
154. “Exist to be happy,not to impress.”–Unknown 
155. “No rain, no flowers.”–Unknown 
156. “Being happy never goes out of style.”–Lilly Pulitzer 
157. “In a world full of hate,be love.”–Unknown 
158. “A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.”–Coco Chanel 
159. “We grow through what we go through.”–Tyrese Gibson 
161. “Trust the next chapter because you are the author.”–Unknown 
162. “When you focus on the good,the good gets better.”–Abraham Hicks 
163. “Be somebody who makes everyone feel like a somebody.”–Courtney Shields 
164. “Some days you just have to create your own sunshine.”–Sam Sundquist 
165. “It’s not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.”–Charles Spurgeon 
166. “Bad vibes don’t go with my outfit.”–Unknown 
167. “It’s better to be annoyingly positive and optimistic than destructively negative and hateful.”–Unknown 
168. “Don’t cry because it’s over,smile because it happened.”–Dr.Seuss 
Happy quotes to brighten up your life: 
169. “When it rains look for rainbows,when it’s dark look for stars.”–Unknown 
170. “If you see someone without a smile,give them one of yours.”–Dolly Parton
171. “Don’t be sad because sad backwards is das and das not good.”–Unknown 
172. “Smile at strangers and you just might change a life.”–Masashi Kishimoto 
173. “Peace begins with a smile.”–Mother Teresa 
174. “A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”–Phyllis Diller 
175. “A simple smile.That’s the start of opening your heart and being compassionate to others.”–Dalai Lama 
176. “Because of your smile,you make life more beautiful.”–Thich Nhat Hanh 
Inspiring motivational quotes for being happier: 
177. “She was trouble,chaos really,but her smile,her smile dared me to fall in love with her.”–Atticus 
178. “We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.”–Mother Teresa 
179. “I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.”–Goldie Hawn 
180. “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”–Robert Morley
181. “So many people love you.Don’t focus on the people that don’t.”–Soyen 
182. “Forgive yourself for not having the foresight to know what seems so obvious in hindsight.”–Judy Belmont 
183. ”The best revenge is to have enough self worth not to seek it.”–Courtney Jarvis 
184. “Happiness is not something ready made.It comes from your own actions.”–Dalai Lama 
Motivational quotes to inspire success and happiness: 
185. “The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go.”–Dodinsky 
186. “If you ever have to decide between winning a fight or being happy,choose happiness.Being happy automatically makes you a winner.”–Karen Salmansohn 
187. “Never feel guilty for doing what’s best for you.”–Dushant Isankar 
188. “Happiness is the highest form of health.”–Dalai Lama 
189. “People who wonder whether the glass is half empty or full miss the point.The glass is refillable.”–Unknown 
190. “Your life isn’t yours if you always care what others think of you.”–Unknown
191. “Turn your wounds into wisdom”–Oprah 
192. “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.”–Maya Angelou 
Great quotes about happiness: 
193. “Be happy for this moment.This moment is your life.”–Omar Khayyam 
194. “We all have two lives.The second one starts when we realize we only have one.”–Tom Hiddleston 
195. “It’s okay. You just forgot who you are for a moment.Welcome back.”–Unknown 
196. “You owe to yourself the love that you give so freely to others.”–Unknown 
197. “If it comes,let it come.If it stays,let it stay.If it goes,let it go.”–Nicholas Sparks 
198. “Whoever is happy will make others happy.”–Anne Frank 
199. “I am happy.I have something to accomplish,create,and achieve.I am happy.”–Vera Nazarian 
200. “I’m lucky enough to be with someone,I am happy.”–Johnny Knoxville
In conclusion,these happiness quotes weave a tapestry of positivity,reminding us that happiness is not merely a destination but a journey.As we bid farewell to this collection,carry the wisdom of these words with you,embracing joy in the simple moments.Let these quotes be a constant companion on your path to contentment,inspiring you to find happiness within and share it generously with others.May these insights echo in your heart,echoing the beautiful symphony of a life well-lived and joyously embraced. 
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