160 Happiness Quotes to Make you Happy and Feel Good

Happiness … everybody wants to be happy in this world and chases it, but few understand from where does it come.  People keep searching for it in the outside world , but the reality is it lies within you. You just need to explore it inside you. Lots of ups and down comes  across in the life and we face many difficulties and challenges. We need to overcome from these with confidence and feel HAPPY. Happiness is a journey not a destination, life will be easy when you are happy with it. Today, I am sharing with you collection of my favorite happiness quotes, which I like most and these quotes make me smile, whenever I read them.

Happiness Quotes

Here is the collection of happiness quotes to make you smile and keep you motivated in life. Hope you will like these happy quotes.

1. “Happiness is contagious, spread this among people surrounding you.” ~ Invajy

2. “People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

3. “Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.” ~ Frank Tyger

4. “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

5. “Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.” ~ Buddha

6. “There is no path to happiness; happiness is the path.” ~ Buddha

7. “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

8. “Happiness, search it in the outer world and you’ll be exhausted. Search it inside you’ll find a path.” ~ Invajy

9. “Happiness is the best makeup” ~ Drew Barrymore​

10. “Happiness walks step by step just right beside you; if you look at it mindfully.” ~ Invajy

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11. “Happiness is inversely correlated with desire.” ~ Invajy

12. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” ~ Dalai Lama

13. “Happiness comes in waves. you will find it again.” ~ Invajy

14. “A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.” ~ Bernard de Fontenelle

15. “Happiness is acceptance” ~ Invajy

16. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” ~ Oscar Wilde
17. “The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.” ~ Woody Allen
18. “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.” ~ Buddha
19. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
20. “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
21. “True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.” ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
22. “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
23. “The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” ~ James M. Barrie
24. “Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.” ~ Marquis de Condorcet
25. “When it rains, look for rainbows. When it’s dark, look for stars.” ~ Invajy

26. “Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
27. “One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” ~ Rita Mae Brown
28. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” ~ Mother Theresa
29. “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” ~ Steve Marabol
30. “If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more. ” ~ Roy T. Bennett

Being Happy Quotes

31. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” ~ Ludwig Jacobowski
32. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
33. “We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.” ~ William James
34. “Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.” ~ Lou Holtz
35. “Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” ~ Joseph Addison
36. “Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
37. “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
38. “I am very happy because I have conquered myself and not the world. I am very happy because I have loved the world and not myself.” ~ Sri Chinmoy
39. “Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.” ~ Mary Lou Retton
40. “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
41. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.” ~ Audrey Hepburn
42. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” ~ Dalai Lama
43. “Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
44. “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” ~ George Sand
45. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” ~ Dalai Lama
46. “Being happy never goes out of style.” ~ Lilly Pulitzer
47. “The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.” ~ Aesop
48. “A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?” ~ Albert Einstein
49. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” ~ Epictetus
50. “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” ~ Jim Rohn
51. “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” ~ Mark Twain
52. “The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
53. “The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.” ~ Thucydides
54. “A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.” ~ Helen Keller
55. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” ~ Dale Carnegie

56. “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.” ~ Valerie Bertinelli
57. “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” ~ Andrew Carnegie
58. “The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go. ” ~ Dodinsky
59. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” ~ Marthe Troly-Curtin
60. “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

Happy Quotes

61. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” ~ James Oppenheim
62. “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.” ~ Anthony de Mello
63. “Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” ~ Dennis Waitley
64. “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” ~ Confucius
65. “Happiness is living in the present moment. Mindfulness makes you happier than ever before.” ~ Invajy

66. “Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.” ~ Gretta Brooker Palmer
67. “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
68. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” ~ Aristotle
69. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”  ~ Confucius
70. “Happiness is an art of never holding memories of any unpleasant thing that has passed.” ~ Invajy
71. “Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.” ~ Alan Cohen
72. “Happiness is a state where nothing is missing.” ~ Naval Ravikant
73. “The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.” ~ William Saroyan
74. “We can’t control the world. We can only (barely) control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement.” ~David C. Hill
75. “Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.” ~ Friedrich Schiller
76. “The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.” ~Eric Hoffer
77. “If you do not mess your mind, you will naturally be joyful.” ~ Sadhguru
78. “The secret of happiness is low expectations.” ~ Barry Schwartz
79. “Happiness comes from peace. Peace comes from indifference” ~ Naval Ravikant
80. “As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.” ~ Andrew Delbanco
81. “Happiness is always the serendipitous result of looking for something else.” ~ Dr. Idel Dreimer
82. “Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
    
83. “Happiness is a place between too much and too little.” ~ Finnish proverb
84. “All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.” ~ Baruch Spinoza
85. “Happiness is not you get what you like. Happiness is you like what you get.” ~ Invajy
86. “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” ~Ayn Rand
87. “The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” ~ William Morris
88. “The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” ~ Ashley Montagu
89. “Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
90. “To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” ~ Bertrand Russell

Quotes on Happiness

91. “Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
92. “The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.” ~ Goldie Hawn
93. “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
94. “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” ~ William James 
95. “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” ~  Robert Frost
96. “There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.” ~ Freya Stark
97. “There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
98. “Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are.” ~ Chinese proverb
99. “The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.” ~ Carl Sandburg
100. “Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.” ~  Alan Cohen
101. “Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” ~ Mother Teresa
102. “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
103. “Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.” ~ Colette
104. “Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.” ~ Dale Carnegie
105. “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
106. “A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.” ~ Albert Einstein
107. “Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
108. “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” ~ Jonathan Safran Foer
109. “Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness.” ~ Christian Dior
110. “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” ~ Steve Maraboli
111. “The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
112. “Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.” ~ Robert S. Lynd
113. “Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.” ~ William Feather
114. “Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.”  ~ Sri Chinmoy
115. “One joy scatters a hundred griefs.” ~ Chinese Proverb
116. “Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.” ~ Stephen Fry
117. “We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.” ~ Walter Savage Landor
118. “We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
119. “The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
120. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” ~ Omar Khayyam

Happy Life Quotes

121. “People say that money isn’t the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.” ~ Joan Rivers
122. “If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.” ~ Mother Teresa
123. “Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.” ~ J. K. Rowling
124. “Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called ‘all the things that could go wrong.’” ~ Marianne Williamson
125. “I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.” ~ Paul Simon
126. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” ~ Maya Angelou
127. “Happiness is like a cloud—if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.” ~ Sarah McLachlan
128. “Be happy in your body. It’s the only one you’ve got, so you might as well like it.” ~ Keira Knightley
129. “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” ~ Steven Kloves
130. “In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness — otherwise, how would you know when you’re happy?” ~ Leslie Caron
131. “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” ~  Albert Camus
132. “Recognizing and appreciating what you have in life brings happiness.” ~ Invajy
133. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
134. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
135. “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” ~ George Burns
136. “To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.” ~ Gustave Flaubert
137. “Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” ~ Dale Carnegie
138. “Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
139. “Be happy. It really annoys negative people.” ~ Ricky Gervais
140. “Happiness, in truth, lies within you. Starting from you and ending with you.” ~ Invajy
141. “Happiness is an inside job.” ~ William Arthur Ward
142. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
143. “We are born with happiness, joy and fun; Why do we search it outside?” ~ Invajy
144. “Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.” ~ Milton Erickson
145. “I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.” ~ Dalai Lama
146. “People should find happiness in the little things, like family.” ~ Amanda Bynes
147. “Happiness, not in another place but this place… not for another hour, but this hour.” ~ Walt Whitman
148. “He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
149. “True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” ~ Helen Keller
150. “Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
151. “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
152. “Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you’ve got.” ~ Rosamunde Pilcher
153. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!” ~ Dolly Parton
154. “Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower.” ~ John Harrigan
155. “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.” ~ Topher Kearby
156. “I have chosen to be happy because it’s good for my health.” ~ Voltaire
157. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ~ Marcel Proust
158. “Happiness is a warm puppy.” ~ Charles M. Schulz
159. “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.” ~ Mark Twain
160. “It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” ~ Lucille Ball

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