165 Happiness Quotes to Inspire Happier Living

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old — whatever the old means for you.

Be happy. It really annoys negative people.

Roll with the punches and enjoy every minute of it.

Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

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

I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment – something you don’t create, you encounter.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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.

Believing, desiring, deciding, and choosing correctly are the simple actions that define an increase in happiness and an increase in the inner assurance that transcends this life.

Happiness isn’t a goal… it’s a by-product of a life well lived.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Happiness is a state of activity.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

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

Stop looking for happiness, you are alive, you are in this moment, nothing can be happier than this.

If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.

And finally, in all of living have much of fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

There is great happiness in not wanting, in not being something, in not going somewhere.

There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

I feel like I’ve been split open and stuffed with sunshine.

Laughter is an instant vacation.

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

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Real happiness is not of temporary enjoyment, but is so interwoven with the future that it blesses for ever.

The key to happiness is being comfortable in this moment, right here and now.

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy, and rewarding life.

If you ever have to decide between winning a fight or being happy, choose happiness. Being happy automatically makes you a winner.

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.

Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Remaining positive about yourself and your situation is key to your happiness.

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

The key to happiness was achievable dreams.

One of the simplest ways to stay happy is by letting go of the things that make you sad.

Being happy includes walking around with a smile on your face, savoring the day you just had, and looking forward to tommorow.

Being happy isn’t having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it’s about stringing together all the little things.

Happiness is the result of a life well-lived.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

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.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work… or in the love of others.

If you come at four in the afternoon, I’ll begin to be happy by three.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

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.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

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.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

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.

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.

If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.

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.

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.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

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.

You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to swim.

As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement.

Being happy is not the only happiness.

Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth.

Happiness is always the serendipitous result of looking for something else.

Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do.

Forgive yourself for not having the foresight to know what seems so obvious in hindsight.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy?

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

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.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

People should find happiness in the little things, like family.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

I’d far rather be happy than right any day.

Make space in your life, space for health and happiness.

Don’t stay in a bad situation, whether it is a relationship or a job, out of fear of failure. It’s not a failure to walk away and choose to be happy. It takes a lot of courage.

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

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Find something to feel good about and get out of the way, and allow the cells to receive what they’ve been asking for. That is the key to healing.

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

There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.

Happiness is a well-balanced combination of love, labour, and luck.

You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Doing what you were born to do… That’s the way to be happy.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

Being happy never goes out of style.

I don’t understand the point of being together if you’re not the happiest.

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.

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

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy..

It’s not about being happy all the time, or being sure of all your choices. It’s about knowing that life is precious, even when it’s tough.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

If you’ve got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

Some days you just have to create your own sunshine.

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.

Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You’re in complete control of your happiness.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

Be believing, be happy, don’t get discouraged. Things will work out.

Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, , and the countless other infinitesimal of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.

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.

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

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.

Joy enters when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offering thanks for all the troubles we don’t have. And be aware, you have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

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.

The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation.

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.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.

It’s OK to have a plan, to invest in your future – for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn’t detract from it if you get there.

True happiness…arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

I don’t care about having money. It’s about being happy, man.

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.

There will always be obstacles and choices. Your job is to choose which choice leads to the best outcome.

The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of every day.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

I’m happy. Which often looks like crazy.

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

If you want to be happy, you need to set your mind on happiness.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

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

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

The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

I laugh as much as I can and cry when I have to, without apology. I think that’s happy.