Sometimes we all need a bit of inspiration. Here are 50 happiness quotes about love and life and ‘what is happiness.’
‘What is Happiness’ Quotes
“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
“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.” – Maxim Gorky
“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.” – Mildred Barthel
“Happiness is a form of courage.” – Holbrook Jackson
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” – Aristotle
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions. – Dalai Lama
“How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now.” – Gerald Jampolsky
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.” ― Charles Dickens
Happiness Quotes About Love and Relationships
“Happiness [is] only real when shared” ― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.” – Organ Pamuk
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” ― Mark Twain
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.” – Victor Hugo
“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 Bronte
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”– Joseph Addison
“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
“Happiness is not doing fun things. Happiness is doing meaningful things.” – Maxime Lagacé
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” Dalai Lama
“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
How to Find Happiness Quotes
“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” – Roy T. Bennett
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
“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, The Light in the Heart
“I’m happy. Which often looks like crazy.” ― David Henry Hwang
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” – Charles Spurgeon
“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” – Ayn Rand
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
“People should find happiness in the little things, like family.” – Amanda Bynes
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.” ― Mark Twain
“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.” – William Saroyan
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.” ― Audrey Hepburn
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” – William Morris
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”– Frederick Keonig
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer
“Happiness is a direction, not a place.” – Sydney J. Harris
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’.” – John Lennon
“Imagining something is better than remembering something.” – Robin Williams
“True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” – Helen Keller
“If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
Happiness quotes for kids
“Happiness can be found in even the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” – J. K. Rowling from Harry Potter (Albus Dumbledore)
“There are so many things that can make you happy. Don’t focus too much on things that make you sad.” A. A. Milne from Winnie the Pooh
“There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.” ― Stephen Chbosky from The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” Dr. Seuss from The Lorax
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” — Roald Dahl, from The Minpins
“Be so happy that when others look at you, they will be happy too.” A. A. Milne from Winnie the Pooh
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss (disputed)
“In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and the job’s a game.” ~ P.L. Travers, from Mary Poppins
“Sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” – Lewis Carroll from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” – Dr. Seuss