100+ Happiness Quotes & Sayings

263 Quotes

Happiness is not a destination, but it is the journey which can be experienced in each moment of life. The choice of one’s source of happiness is always in their hands.

We've collected the Best Happiness Quotes of the most inspiring, touching and helpful thoughts from the past on happiness.

Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.

Walt Whitman

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

Jodi Picoult

The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.

Shannon L. Alder

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

She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration the first time she saw him outfitted in his dress blues.

Nicholas Sparks

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.

David Henry Hwang

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.

Mark Strand

It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.

Nicholas Sparks

When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.

Shannon L. Alder

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....

Charles M. Schulz

Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.

Jacqueline Kelly

It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.

Lemony Snicket

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.

Mother Teresa

Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy.

Elizabeth Scott

Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.

Shannon L. Alder

You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.

Wayne W. Dyer

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;Weep, and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,But has trouble enough of its own.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The point of simple living, for me has got to be:A soft place to landA wide margin of errorRoom to breatheLots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day

Leo Babauta

I NEVER UNDERSTOOD THE POINT OF BEING SADWHEN I COULD CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY

Megan McCafferty

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Mother Teresa

Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.

J. Maarten Troost

Exactly. How can you know it makes you happy if you’ve never experienced it?There are different kinds of happy, she said. Some kinds don’t need any proof.

Jennifer E. Smith

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

Henrik Ibsen

The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself.

Ellen DeGeneres

I'm a happy person. If you want to be around me, you can either choose to be happy too, or follow the signs to the nearest exit!

Sharon Swan

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.

Graham Greene

...because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life.

David Levithan

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

Charlotte Brontë

Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched.

Albert Camus

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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.

Albert Camus

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

L. Frank Baum

I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

J.D. Salinger

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

Albert Camus

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

J.D. Salinger

I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.

Cormac McCarthy

Mara, that's the life I want to give you. That's what I'm offering you. I want to fill you life with color and warmth. I want to fill it with light. Give me a chance

Francine Rivers

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

Albert Camus

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