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55 Quotes About Happiness
Be Happy
I want to take you to your happy place. Whether you see yourself as a generally happy person or someone that encounters more peaks than valleys in their day, there is never too much happiness in the world.
And happiness is nothing to be laughed off. We all reap great benefits when we choose to be happy. Here are a few:
- It drives out stress
- You become more creative
- You perform better at your job
- It promotes generosity
- You'll have a much better marriage or relationship
- You handle life's challenges easier
- You attract better people into your life
- You have better health and increased life expectancy
- You have more energy
I've put together some of my favorite quotes about happiness and being happy. Use them as a reference when you've got the blues, in a quick text to a friend, or for a toast at your next get-together. Happiness, like love, is best when shared.
55 Quotes About Happiness
1. "This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it."
-Psalm 118:24 NLT
2. "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
3. "The most important thing is to enjoy your life-to be happy-it's all that matters."
-Audrey Hepburn
4. "Whoever is happy will make others happy."
-Anne Frank
5. "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."
-Oprah Winfrey
6. "Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections."
-Bob Marley
7. "For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
-Ralph Waldo Emmerson
8. "A day without laughter is a day wasted."
-Charlie Chaplin
9. "My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations."
-Michael J. Fox
10. "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
11. "I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle into the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup."
-Drew Barrymore
12. "Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes."
-Charles Dickens
13. "You have to be willing to get happy about nothing."
-Andy Warhol
14. "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
-Oscar Wilde
15. "Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it."
-Bernard Meltzer
16. "I'd far rather be happy than right any day."
-Douglas Adams
17. "There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
18. "Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy."
-Deepak Chopra
19. "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
-Abraham Lincoln
20. "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
-Dale Carnegie
21. "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."
-Mother Teresa
22. "There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will."
-Epictetus
23. "The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."
-Henry Ward Beecher
24. "Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."
-Thomas Mann
25. "Happiness depends upon ourselves."
-Aristotle
26. "Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."
-John Lennon
27."Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them."
-Steve Maraboli
28. "The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely."
-Louisa May Alcott
29. "The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so."
-William Inge
30. "I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world."
-L. Frank Baum
31. "You can't buy happiness."
-Kurt Cobain
32. "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
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33. "Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."
-Dalai Lama
34. "Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice."
-Philippians 4:4
35. "Being happy never goes out of style."
-Lilly Pulitzer
36. "Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."
-Margaret Lee Runbeck
37. "Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window - or break down a door."
-Brooke Shields
38. "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
-Mahatma Gandhi
39. "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.
40. "One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy."
-Leo Tolstoy
41. "The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."
-J.M. Barrie
42. "Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."
-Aeschylus
43. "Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?"
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
44. "Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear."
-Taylor Swift
45. "If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy."
-Joyce Meyer
46. "Being happy in general makes life so much easier."
-Tom Daley
47. "We are all happy if we but knew it."
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
48. "It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy."
-Lucille Ball
49. "The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are."
-Goldie Hawn
50. "Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
51. " Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
-Robert Frost
52. "If your happiness depends on what someone else does, I guess you do have a problem."
-Richard Bach
53. "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
54. "Happiness is a warm puppy."
-Charles M. Schulz
55. "Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels."
-Bertolt Brecht
There you have it. 55 quotes about happiness to help you start your day, choosing to be happy. Remember that it's never about what life is doing to you, but how you respond to it that makes you who you are. Choose happiness. Living through 2021 when both my dad and son died, and my wife missed the entire end of the year in the hospital, I sometimes questioned happiness.
Let me report, today I choose happy, and I find happiness and gratitude every day. You can too.
Pursue happiness. Don't settle. Be kind to yourself and do something today that you enjoy and that makes you happy. Be grateful for what you have and turn that frown upside down - SMILE.
Don't worry. Be happy!
"Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart."
-Psalm 37:4 KJV
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