100 Best Happiness Quotes to Brighten Your Day

 

Happiness is a state of mind that we all wish to achieve. It s the feeling of joy, contentment, and fulfillment that comes from living a life that aligns with our values, passions, and purpose.

Whether it s the simple pleasures of life, such as spending time with loved ones, enjoying nature and its beauty, pursuing a hobby, or the achievements and milestones that bring us pride and satisfaction, happiness is the ultimate goal that we all strive for.

In this blog, we ll explore the topic of happiness and dig into some of the most inspiring and uplifting quotes from renowned writers, philosophers, thinkers, and f that celebrate the joys of life. 

These quotes remind us of the beauty and wonder of the world around us, from the smallest moments of laughter and playfulness to the grandest gestures of love and kindness. They also remind us that happiness is not something we chase, but something we cultivate within ourselves through gratitude, mindfulness, and positive thinking.

So, if you re in need of some inspiration to lift your spirits and celebrate the joys of life, read through some of the most beautiful and meaningful quotes about happiness and joy. Let s spread the love and laughter and make the world a brighter and happier place.

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“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” —Aristotle

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“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.” —Mary Stuart

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

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“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

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“It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” —Lucille Ball

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“Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.” —Winnie the Pooh

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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” —Oscar Wilde

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“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

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“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” —L.M. Montgomery

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“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” —Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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 “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” —James Oppenheim

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“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” —Albert Schweitzer

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“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.” —Andre Maurois

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“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” —Marcel Proust

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“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” —Abraham Lincoln

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"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes." —Andrew Carnegie

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"Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are." —Chinese Proverb

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"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." —Margaret Lee Runbeck

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“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

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"True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." —Helen Keller

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"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting." —Bernard Meltzer

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"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

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"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." —Dale Carnegie

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“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

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“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” —Mahatma Gandhi

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“There s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.” - Stephen Chbosky

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“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”-John Lennon

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“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” -J.R.R. Tolkien

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“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it s all that matters.”-Audrey Hepburn

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“Happiness is a warm puppy.” -Charles M. Schulz

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“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.” -Orhan Pamuk

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“All happiness depends on courage and work.” -Honoré de Balzac

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“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.” —Mother Teresa

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“Now and then it s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” -Guillaume Apollinaire

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“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” -Marcus Aurelius

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“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it s the ability to deal with them.” -Steve Maraboli

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“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.

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“I m choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.” ?Elizabeth Gilbert

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“Whoever is happy will make others happy.” -Anne Frank

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“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” -Martha Washington

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“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.” -Daphne du Maurier

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“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.” -Thich Nhat Hanh

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“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” —Louisa May Alcott

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“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ” ?William James

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“If only we d stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.” —Edith Wharton

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“Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.” ?Sarah Addison Allen

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“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” ?Oprah Winfrey

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“There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.” ?Charlotte Brontë

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“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ” ?Epictetus

 

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“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.” ?Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occur while you re climbing it.” - Andy Rooney

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“Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections” -Bob Marley

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“One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy.” —Leo Tolstoy

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“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” -J.M. Barrie

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“Happiness is only real when shared.” -Christopher McCandless

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“You must be the best judge of your own happiness.” -Jane Austen

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“There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.” -C.S. Lewis

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“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

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“I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.” -L. Frank Baum

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“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations.” ?Michael J. Fox

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“You can t buy happiness” ?Kurt Cobain

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“Most people would rather be certain they re miserable than risk being happy.” ?Robert Anthony

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“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.” ?Aeschylus

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“I do not think we have a ‘right’ to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.” ?Marlene Dietrich

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

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“Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still, I d like to express my thanks—I ve got the sun in the mornin and the moon at night.” ?Irving Berlin

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“Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.” ?Peter   Deunov

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“Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau 

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“A flower blossoms for its own joy.” ?Oscar Wilde

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“Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.” ?Alexandre Dumas

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“Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another s happiness than in your own.” ?Honoré de Balzac

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“Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear” ?Taylor Swift

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“Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.” ?Thomas Mann

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“The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself.” ?Ellen DeGeneres

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“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.” —Victor Hugo

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“Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!” ?Jane Austen

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“I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.” ?Sarah Addison Allen

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“It is necessary for the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.” -Thomas Paine

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“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.” ?Charles Dickens

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“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

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“If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.” ?Steve Maraboli

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“The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.” ?Ayad Akhtar

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“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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“We are all happy if we but knew it.” ?Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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“It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors or even our relations.” ?Bertrand Russell

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“I ve learned...That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.” ?Andy Rooney

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“You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.” ?Andy Warhol

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

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“Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.”- Kareena Kapoor Khan

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“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”-Jim Rohn

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“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” - Omar Khayyam

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“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. 

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"If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”- Herman Cain

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“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” - George Burns

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“Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.” -  Milton Erickson

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“The simplest things can bring the most happiness.”-Izabella Scorupco

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“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” -Morris West

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“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”- James Oppenheim

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“The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.”- Richard Bach

Summary

We hope these quotes were able to add a little bit of sunshine to your grey sky day. Always remember that happiness increases when you share it with others. If there’s something more that’s on your mind and troubles you, consult an online therapist at HopeQure.

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