If you are like most people, happiness is one of your main goals in life. This is why you work really hard to stay positive and avoid anything that worries, scares or annoys you every day. However, no matter how hard you try, happiness won’t be that easy to achieve. You need to be focused and committed if you want to change your perspective and be happy about your life.
To motivate you, here’s our collection of the best happy quotes that can brighten your day and make you feel better.
Famous happiness quotes
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abraham Lincoln
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. – James Openheim
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. – John Lennon
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Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. – Gretta Brooker Palmer
The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters. – Audrey Hepburn
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It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. – Frank McKinney Hubbard
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust
Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.
Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. – W.P. Kinsella
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. – Lady Blessington
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 when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness. – Ayn Rand
You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.
If you want to be happy, be. – Leo Tolstoy
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
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
Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: 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
The happiest people don’t necessarily have the best of everything, they just make the best out of everything that comes their way.
If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. – Edith Wharton
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. -Mahatma Gandhi
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. – George Sand
Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack. – Hazelmarie Elliott
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. – Anton Chekhov
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. – Rita Mae Brown
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. – Thich Nhat Hanh
I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success. – Diego Val
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. – Dalai Lama XIV
In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself.
Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. – Bernard Meltzer
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
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. – Jean de La Bruyere
The first recipe for happiness is avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. – Andre Maurois
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances. – Martha Washington
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
When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. – Helen Keller
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
One of the simplest ways to stay happy is letting go of the things that makes you sad. – Saily Dose
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Stand Up For What You Belive In Even When Your Standing Alone !!! <3
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Good happiness quotes.Actually in today’s stressful life happiness quotes give the strength to tired person
very intresting! i love this. we should read $ follow this.
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well done! nice qoutes.
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The “TRUE” Beauty,Love,Happiness,Etc…
is because the world stops and melts when it see’s
You “SMILING!” <3
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creates the happy-me 🙂
thanks then 😀
THESE QUOTES REALLY MAKE ME HAPPY
THEY R OWSUM QUOTES
I REALLY REALLY ENJOYED IT AND ALWAYS LOVE TO READ THEM
keep smiling and don’t give those who hates you the chance to smile over your sadness
All quotes r very usefull n good.
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Happiness is free of charge, buh, some people refused to have it<3
awesomeeeeeeeeeeee……………. happiness quotes
all the qoutes inspiries & always make my day special.thanks a lot
worship and pray to God,for an eternal gladness
never love cause it limits ur happiness.
absolutely beautiful and true.
nice quotes…:)
what an inspiring quotes 😀 tnx
hoping for more quotes to be uploaded
God bless 😀 BE HAPPY
yeah its all that matter.. live simply and be happy!
these made me smile to world.tanks
“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get”
the quotes is happiness it can made your mind wonderful, happy:))*
be yourself , be happy 🙂
I love theses quotes..each one is o uplifting..be happy and love yourself then you can pass on that happy vibe to all..lovely..thank u for sharing theses..p.x
awesome quotes…..
Thanks for inspiration….
Sadness is always followed by happiness
I realized that I also can be happy
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I like the video collection of happiness quotes. we need this most. it lifts my spirits to be happy. thank you.
situations are like water it can change into any form but happiness should search in our life
by smiling we can be seen 3 years younger