Everybody deserves happiness. Doing the things that make you happy is one of the best moments of anyone's life. Always remember to wake up every day with a positive thought in mind. And while you will encounter unavoidable problems, you must overcome them with a smile. May these happy quotes make your life more meaningful and bright.
1. “Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.” – Daphne du Maurier
2. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
3. “Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
4. “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
5. “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties” – Helen Keller
6. “You can't change how people feel about you, just live your life and be happy.” – Anonymous
7. “Those who are not looking for happiness are most likely to find it because those who are searching for it forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
8. “Do what makes you happy, be with those who make you smile, and laugh as much as you breathe.” – Rachel Ann Nunes
9. “We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” – Khalil Gibran
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10. “Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.” – Democritus
11. “Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.” – Dalai Lama
12. “Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.” – Helen Keller
13. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius
14. “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” – Benjamin Disraeli
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15. “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 Carnegi
16. “The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of it every day.” – Anonymous
17. “Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.” – Mary Lou Retton
18. “One of the simplest ways to stay happy is letting go of the things that make you sad.” – Anonymous
19. “Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.” – Zig Ziglar
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20. “Life only comes around once, so do whatever makes you happy, and be with whoever makes you smile.” – Anonymous
21. “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha
22. “It's not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself and to make your happiness a priority. It is necessary.” – Mandy Hale
23. “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
24. “Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy.” – Paulo Coelho
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25. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein
26. “Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.” – William E. Gladstone
27. “True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.” – Ben Jonson
28. “Happiness doesn’t depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.” – William D. Hoard
29. “The most simple things can bring the most happiness.” – Izabella Scorupco
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30. “Happiness is contagious, pass it on.” – Anonymous
More Inspirational Quotes about Life and Happiness
31. “Happiness will never come to those who don’t appreciate what they already have.” – Anonymous
32. “Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.” – Frank Tyger
33. “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” – Jim Rohn
34. “Happiness is an inside job. Don’t assign anyone else that much power over your life.” – Mandy Hale
35. “The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go.” – Dodinsky
36. “Being happy is letting go of what slows you down.” – Mike Falzone
37. “Saying yes to happiness means learning to say not to the things and people that stress you out.” – Thema Davis
38. “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
39. “Don’t let the silly little things steal your happiness.” – Anonymous
40. “The most worthwhile thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.” – Robert Baden Powell
41. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam
42. “Happiness can exist only in acceptance.” – George Orwell
43. “Let the light of happiness shine from within you.” – ATGW
44. “Be happy, not because everything is good, but because you can see the good in everything.” – Anonymous
45. “Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” – Guillaume Apollinaire
46. “Happiness is not out there, it’s in you.” – Anonymous
47. “Happiness is not a goal, it's a by product of a life well lived.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
48. “Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is.” – Mandy Hale
49. “There are so many beautiful reasons to be happy.” – Anonymous
50. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
51. “The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” – Ashley Montagu
52. “Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.” – Oscar Levant
53. “Happiness is a direction, not a place.” – Sydney J. Harris
54. “I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.” – Martha Washington
55. “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
56. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” – Epictetus
57. “The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” – Henry Ward Beecher
58. “Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.” – Ovid
59. “The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
60. “Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.” – Alice Walker
61. “To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness.” – Fichte
62. “The only joy in the world is to begin.” – Cesare Pavese
63. “Being happy is the greatest form of success.” – Anonymous
64. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
65. “Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.” – Channing Pollock
66. “Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you.” – Beyoncé
67. “Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.” – Friedrich Schiller
68. “The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions, the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
69. “Be happy. Be bright. Be you.” – Kate Spade
70. “Nothing makes a person happier than having a happy heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
71. “Happiness is like mana; it is to be gathered in grains and enjoyed everyday. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated.” – Tyron Edwards
72. “Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.” – Alan Cohen
73. “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” – Andy Rooney
74. “Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
75. “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” – Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
76. “The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” – James M. Barrie
77. “I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness. It’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.” – Brené Brown
78. “I get up and I’m happy and healthy and whole.” – Huma Abedin
79. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” – James Oppenheim
80. “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore
81. “Being happy never goes out of style.” – Lilly Pulitzer
82. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Herman Cain
83. “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” – Steve Maraboli
84. “Happiness comes in waves. It will find you again.” – Anonymous
85. “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
86. “Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.” – Roy T. Bennett
87. “I choose to make the rest of my life, the best of my life.” – Louise Hay
88. “My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.” – Ayn Rand
89. “True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
90. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
91. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
92. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” – Marcus Aurelius
93. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde
94. “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.” – Thomas Merton
95. “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
96. “The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.” – Richard Bach
97. “The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.” – Andre Maurois
98. “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” – Andrew Carnegie
99. “Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.” – Alexandre Dumas
100. “Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.” – David Lee Roth
Share these Happy Life Quotes with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.
2. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
3. “Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
4. “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
5. “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties” – Helen Keller
6. “You can't change how people feel about you, just live your life and be happy.” – Anonymous
7. “Those who are not looking for happiness are most likely to find it because those who are searching for it forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
8. “Do what makes you happy, be with those who make you smile, and laugh as much as you breathe.” – Rachel Ann Nunes
9. “We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” – Khalil Gibran
11. “Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.” – Dalai Lama
12. “Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.” – Helen Keller
13. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius
14. “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” – Benjamin Disraeli
16. “The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of it every day.” – Anonymous
17. “Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.” – Mary Lou Retton
18. “One of the simplest ways to stay happy is letting go of the things that make you sad.” – Anonymous
19. “Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.” – Zig Ziglar
21. “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha
22. “It's not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself and to make your happiness a priority. It is necessary.” – Mandy Hale
23. “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
24. “Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy.” – Paulo Coelho
26. “Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.” – William E. Gladstone
27. “True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.” – Ben Jonson
28. “Happiness doesn’t depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.” – William D. Hoard
29. “The most simple things can bring the most happiness.” – Izabella Scorupco
More Inspirational Quotes about Life and Happiness
31. “Happiness will never come to those who don’t appreciate what they already have.” – Anonymous
32. “Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.” – Frank Tyger
33. “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” – Jim Rohn
34. “Happiness is an inside job. Don’t assign anyone else that much power over your life.” – Mandy Hale
35. “The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go.” – Dodinsky
36. “Being happy is letting go of what slows you down.” – Mike Falzone
37. “Saying yes to happiness means learning to say not to the things and people that stress you out.” – Thema Davis
38. “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
39. “Don’t let the silly little things steal your happiness.” – Anonymous
40. “The most worthwhile thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.” – Robert Baden Powell
41. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam
42. “Happiness can exist only in acceptance.” – George Orwell
43. “Let the light of happiness shine from within you.” – ATGW
44. “Be happy, not because everything is good, but because you can see the good in everything.” – Anonymous
45. “Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” – Guillaume Apollinaire
46. “Happiness is not out there, it’s in you.” – Anonymous
47. “Happiness is not a goal, it's a by product of a life well lived.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
48. “Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is.” – Mandy Hale
49. “There are so many beautiful reasons to be happy.” – Anonymous
50. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
51. “The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” – Ashley Montagu
52. “Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.” – Oscar Levant
53. “Happiness is a direction, not a place.” – Sydney J. Harris
54. “I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.” – Martha Washington
55. “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
56. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” – Epictetus
57. “The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” – Henry Ward Beecher
58. “Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.” – Ovid
59. “The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
60. “Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.” – Alice Walker
61. “To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness.” – Fichte
62. “The only joy in the world is to begin.” – Cesare Pavese
63. “Being happy is the greatest form of success.” – Anonymous
64. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
65. “Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.” – Channing Pollock
66. “Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you.” – Beyoncé
67. “Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.” – Friedrich Schiller
68. “The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions, the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
69. “Be happy. Be bright. Be you.” – Kate Spade
70. “Nothing makes a person happier than having a happy heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
71. “Happiness is like mana; it is to be gathered in grains and enjoyed everyday. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated.” – Tyron Edwards
72. “Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.” – Alan Cohen
73. “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” – Andy Rooney
74. “Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
75. “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” – Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
76. “The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” – James M. Barrie
77. “I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness. It’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.” – Brené Brown
78. “I get up and I’m happy and healthy and whole.” – Huma Abedin
79. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” – James Oppenheim
80. “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore
81. “Being happy never goes out of style.” – Lilly Pulitzer
82. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Herman Cain
83. “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” – Steve Maraboli
84. “Happiness comes in waves. It will find you again.” – Anonymous
85. “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
86. “Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.” – Roy T. Bennett
87. “I choose to make the rest of my life, the best of my life.” – Louise Hay
88. “My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.” – Ayn Rand
89. “True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
90. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
91. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
92. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” – Marcus Aurelius
93. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde
94. “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.” – Thomas Merton
95. “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
96. “The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.” – Richard Bach
97. “The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.” – Andre Maurois
98. “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” – Andrew Carnegie
99. “Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.” – Alexandre Dumas
100. “Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.” – David Lee Roth
Share these Happy Life Quotes with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.