When was the last time you felt truly happy?
In a recent survey, 45% of people said they haven’t felt truly happy in more than two years. And 88% of us are always on the hunt for new experiences to make us smile and laugh.
Here’s something guaranteed to make you smile right now — a long list of quotes for a happier life!
Keep reading below for a roundup of the best quotes about happiness, joy, success, and much more.
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Best Quotes About Happiness
1. “Enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.” ― Mandy Hale
2. “The day you realize that you can create your happiness out of nothing is the day your life will change forever.” ― Bhuwan Thapaliya
3. “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
4. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
5. “The big lesson in life, baby, is never to be scared of anyone or anything.” — Frank Sinatra
6. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy. It’s all that matters.” — Audrey Hepburn
7. “The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” — Ashley Montagu
8. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” — Epictetus
9. “Those who live with faith have a much better road, a much happier life.” ― Harris Faulkner
10. “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
11. “Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you.” — Beyonce
12. “If you can’t find happiness within yourself, you can’t find happiness anywhere.” ― Shiva Negi
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14. “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” — Jonathan Safran Foer
15. “I do what makes me happy because I never want to be one of those people with a collection of “I almost” stories. Imagine me saying “I almost saw the sunset on the Adriatic.” It was beautiful, y’all.” ― Darnell Lamont Walker
16. “I figure, sometimes, bad things happen to us so we can achieve a higher purpose and attain greater happiness and fulfilment in life.” ― Omoakhuana Anthonia
17. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey
18. “Happiness is not an end to reach. It’s not a goal to pursue. It is a state of being, so simply be it.” ― Anoir Ou-chad
19. “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” — Steve Marabol
20. “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.” — Dale Carnegie
21. “Happy life is not where you have everything, but appreciating everything you have at the moment.” ― Monika Rana
22. “There was more to life than chasing problems that would find you anyway. Why go looking when you could just be happy instead?” ― Nicole Snow
23. “If you wish to discover a person’s true nature, give them everything necessary to be happy.” ― Aegelis
24. “You have an absolute right to choose your life the way you want it to be until you have clear and pure intentions.” ― Giridhar Alwar
25. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” — Albert Einstein
Best Quotes to Be Happy With Your Life
26. “Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” — Anonymous
27. “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” — Abraham Lincoln
28. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” — Marcel Proust
29. “Do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as you can.” — Hillary Clinton
30. “Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius
31. “It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” — Chuck Palahniuk
32. “The intent is to create a beautiful life or pursue happiness trying.” ― Germany Kent
33. “Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.” ― Immanuel Kant
34. “Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this.” — Celine Dion
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36. “By nature, humans are happy souls, but we choose to feel miserable.” ― Sukant Ratnakar
37. “Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.” — Ashton Kutcher
38. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” — Steve Jobs
39. “Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.” ― Iris Murdoch
40. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” — Babe Ruth
41. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
42. “Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude” — Denis Waitley
43. “The more we focus on the good in others, the calmer and more peaceful we will feel.” ― Sarah Khalil
44. “Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.” — Walt Disney
45. “The only state where happiness lives is your state of mind. You have to find happiness where you are.” ― Susie Newman
Famous Quotes About Happiness
46. “It’s hard to love someone you can never be with, but it takes courage to support that person to find the right path to their happiness.” ― Christen Kuikoua
47. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” — Soren Kierkegaard
48. “Maturity is when you realize the universe is too big to get affected by your failure and success.” ― Dr Bhawna Sokta
49. “Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.” — Kobe Bryant
50. “The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.” —William Ralph Inge
51. “Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” — Lao-Tze
52. “A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.” — Albert Einstein
53. “The best portion of a good man’s life is his little nameless, unencumbered acts of kindness and of love.” — Henry Wordsworth Longfellow
54. “If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.” — Mother Teresa
55. “Life is ten per cent what happens to you and ninety per cent how you respond to it.” — Charles Swindoll
56. “Happiness is a way to get closer to God. Being happy we help more people in our world and in the entire universe. Happiness is contagious.” ― Caro Briones
57. “I think that a happy life is earned. Because life itself isn’t one thing or another. It’s not happy or sad. Like anything, it’s what you make of it.” ― Caitlin Crews
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59. “It is normal to have two trusted friends than a huge social group. It is normal to find happiness in being alone.” ― Mitta Xinindlu
60. “A positive attitude eventually begets positive experiences. Choose to be happy. Decide you are well or happy instead of unwell or unhappy, and your experience of living will begin to shift.” — James K. Papp
61. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” — Henry Ford
62. “The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us the greatest delight.” — Epictetus
63. “It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.” ― Amit Ray
64. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” — Helen Keller
65. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain
66. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” — Mahatma Gandhi
67. “There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.” — Stephen Chbosky
68. “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” — Will Smith
69. “Don’t feel guilty about what you didn’t know before; feel proud about the small step you already took by joining this great project.” ― Raad Ammari
70. “Gratitude produces happiness because it focuses your thoughts on the positive. And when you are in a positive mental attitude, you bring more good things to your life to be grateful for.” ― Caro Briones
Feel Happy Quotes for the Day
71. “Of what avail is all the colour in life if it can’t provide a shade of happiness to it!” ― B.S. Murthy
72. “Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like.” — Anonymous
73. “Happiness is that thing you get when you untie yourself from anything that weighs you down.” ― Gift Gugu Mona
74. “True happiness comes when you start embarking on a journey of doing something worthy of esteem and emulation.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
75. “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” — Mark Twain
76. “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
77. “Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.” — Jaques Prevert
78. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” — Oscar Wilde
79. “What is the call of your soul? What does it want? Your soul wants to be happy. Knowingly or unknowingly that is what you are working for, to make your soul happy.” ― Garima Dixit
80. “The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself.” — Ellen Degeneres
81. “Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.” — Mary Lou Retton
82. “Happiness is not something you will miraculously find one day in the distant future. Happiness is something that you develop over time, with your actions, thoughts, feelings, connections, and experiences every day.” — David Paul
83. “If you can’t find happiness in yourself, it’s not possible to find it elsewhere.” ― Carlos Wallace
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85. “I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.” — Anna Howard Shaw
86. “People expect their life to go the same way as others. But no one care for the hardships the other person has gone through to make things beautiful.” ― Giridhar Alwar
87. “The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.” — Julia Alvarez
88. “Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.” — Muhammad Ali
89. “When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another.” — Helen Keller
90. “You’re never happy if your main focus in life is that you want to be happy. Then you’re always thinking about whether you’re happy. You have to find some other thing that isn’t happiness that makes you happy that you focus on.” ― Hank Green
91. “Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” — Lillian Dickson
92. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier.” — Mother Teresa
93. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” — Mark Twain
94. “If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” — Roald Dahl
95. “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” — John Lennon
96. “Hold on to that one reason for being happy even when you have a hundred reasons to be unhappy.” ― Garima Soni
97. “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anais Nin
98. “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” — John Barrymore
99. “Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.” — Alice Walker
100. “Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness.” — Christian Dior
Bonus: 51 Short & Sweet Quotes About a Happy Life
101. “Very little is needed to make a happy life.” ― Louise Erdrich
102. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey
103. “The healthiest response to life is joy.” — Deepak Chopra
104. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr Seuss
105. “Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
106. “Life is the dancer and you are the dance.” — Eckhart Tolle
107. “Without hope, how can we be happy?” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
108. “The goal in life is to die young, as late as possible.” ― Ashley Montagu
109. “One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.” — Iris Murdoch
110. “If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” — Dolly Parton
111. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama
112. “Being happy never goes out of style.” — Lilly Pulitzer
113. “When you love what you have, you have everything you need.” — Anonymous
114. “Don’t worry. Be happy.” — Bobby McFerrin
115. “Embrace the glorious mess that you are.” — Elizabeth Gilbert
116. “And that’s the thing about joy, it spreads from smile to smile.” ― Anamika Mishra
117. “Live for each second without hesitation.” — Elton John
118. “Happiness is a candy wrapped in a foil of gratitude.” ― Sukant Ratnakar
119. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” — Aristotle
120. “In order to write about life first you must live it.” — Ernest Hemingway
121. “You are the source of happiness.” ― Srinivart
122. “If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.” — Maya Angelou
123. “You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.” ― George Clooney
124. “I have chosen to be happy because it’s good for my health.” — Voltaire
125. “Every day is a new day.” — Carrie Underwood
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127. “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” — Seneca
128. “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
129. “It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis.” — Margaret Bonanno
130. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon
131. “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” — Anne Frank
132. “Beauty is everywhere. You only have to look to see it.” — Bob Ross
133. “Happiness is a warm puppy.” — Charles M. Schulz
134. “There is no path to happiness; happiness is the path.” — Buddha
135. “The only joy in the world is to begin.” — Cesare Pavese
136. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
137. “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavour.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
138. “You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to swim.” — Jon Kabat Zinn
139. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown
140. “The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.” —Frank Lloyd Wright
141. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” ― Marthe Troly-Curtin
142. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Gandhi
143. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” — T.S. Eliot
144. “If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” — Morris West
145. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” ― Dalai Lama
146. “I would always rather be happy than dignified.” ― Charlotte Bronte
147. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
148. “It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” — J. K. Rowling
149. “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” — Michael Jordan
150. “Life is too short to be unhappy.” ― Roy T. Bennett
151. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” — Omar Khayyam
The Best Quotes for a Happier Life
Happiness is beautiful in every language, but these English quotes about happiness express everything we hope to feel.
Whether you’re feeling down and need a boost or you simply want a positive boost for the day, keep this list of quotes for a happier life nearby. Then you can always find the best quote for happiness to brighten your day!
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