Happy quotes 2023 - 150 happy positive life quotes in English with images which make everyone happy and feel good

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Happiness… everybody strives for it in this world, yet few truly understand where it comes from. While people search for joy outside themselves, the reality lies within. All we have to do is explore it within ourselves and accept that happiness lies within. Life may throw us many ups and downs along the way, but when we tackle them head-on with confidence and happiness we’ll feel joy! Happiness truly is a journey not a destination; when you find contentment within yourself life will become easier. Today I’m sharing some of my favorite happiness quotes that make me smile whenever I read them.

Happy life quotes:

Here is a collection of happiness quotes to bring smiles and motivate you in life. We hope that you’ll find these sayings inspiring!

“Happiness is contagious, spread this among people surrounding you.” ~ ureadthis

“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.” ~ Frank Tyger

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.” ~ Buddha

“There is no path to happiness; happiness is the path.” ~ Buddha

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Happiness, search it in the outer world and you’ll be exhausted. Search it inside you’ll find a path.” ~ ureadthis

“Happiness is the best makeup” ~ Drew Barrymore

“Happiness walks step by step just right beside you; if you look at it mindfully.” ~ureadthis

Happy Quotes

“Happiness is inversely correlated with desire.” ~ureadthis

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go” ~ Oscar Wilde
“The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.” ~ Woody Allen
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” ~ Buddha
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” ~ Dalai Lama

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” ~ Herman Cain
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” ~ Epictetus
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” ~ Jim Rohn

Quotes on Happiness

“True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.” ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“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
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” ~ James M. Barrie
“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.” ~ Marquis de Condorcet
“When it rains, look for rainbows. When it’s dark, look for stars.” ~ ureadthis

“Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” ~ Rita Mae Brown
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” ~ Mother Theresa
“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” ~ Steve Marabol
“If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more. ” ~ Roy T. Bennett

Being Happy Quotes

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” ~ Ludwig Jacobowski
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.” ~ William James
“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.” ~ Lou Holtz
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” ~ Joseph Addison
“Happiness is acceptance” ~ ureadthis

“Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory.” ~ Albert Schweitzer
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” ~ Denis Waitley
“I am very happy because I have conquered myself and not the world. I am very happy because I have loved the world and not myself.” ~ Sri Chinmoy
“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.” ~ Mary Lou Retton

Happy Quotes

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.” ~ Audrey Hepburn
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” ~ Dalai Lama
“Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” ~ George Sand
“Happiness comes in waves. you will find it again.” ~ ureadthis

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” ~ Dalai Lama
“Being happy never goes out of style.” ~ Lilly Pulitzer
“The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.” ~ Aesop
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?” ~ Albert Einstein
“Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.” ~ Friedrich Schiller

Quotes about Happiness

“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” ~ Mark Twain
“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
“The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.” ~ Thucydides
“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.” ~ Helen Keller
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” ~ Dale Carnegie

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not. ~ Valerie Bertinelli
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” ~ Andrew Carnegie
“The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go. ” ~ Dodinsky
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” ~ Marthe Troly-Curtin
“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

Happiness Quotes

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” ~ James Oppenheim
“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.” ~ Anthony de Mello
“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” ~ Dennis Waitley
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” ~ Confucius
“Happiness is living in the present moment. Mindfulness makes you happier than ever before.” ~ ureadthis

“Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.” ~ Gretta Brooker Palmer
“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
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” ~ Aristotle
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ~ Confucius
“Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.” ~ ureadthis

Happiness Day Quotes

“Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.” ~ Alan Cohen
Happiness is a state where nothing is missing. ~ Naval Ravikant
“The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.” ~ William Saroyan
“We can’t control the world. We can only (barely) control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement.” ~ David C. Hill
“A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.” ~ Bernard de Fontenelle

“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.” ~ Eric Hoffer
“If you do not mess your mind, you will naturally be joyful.” ~ Sadhguru
“The secret of happiness is low expectations.” ~ Barry Schwartz
“Happiness comes from peace. Peace comes from indifference” ~ Naval Ravikant
“As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.” ~ Andrew Delbanco

Feel Good Quotes

“Happiness is always the serendipitous result of looking for something else.” ~ Dr. Idel Dreimer
“Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
“Happiness is a place between too much and too little.” ~ Finnish proverb
“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.” ~ Baruch Spinoza
“Happiness is not you get what you like. Happiness is you like what you get.” ~ ureadthis
“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” ~ Ayn Rand
“The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” ~ William Morris
“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” ~ Ashley Montagu
“Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” ~ Bertrand Russell

Happiness Quotes

“Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.” ~ Goldie Hawn
“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” ~ William James
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” ~ Robert Frost
“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.” ~ Freya Stark
“There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
“Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are.” ~ Chinese proverb
“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.” ~ Carl Sandburg
“Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.” ~ Alan Cohen

Happy Quotes

“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” ~ Mother Teresa
“Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
“Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.” ~ Colette
“Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.” ~ Dale Carnegie
“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
“A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.” ~ Albert Einstein
“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
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” ~ Jonathan Safran Foer
“Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness.” ~ Christian Dior
“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” ~ Steve Maraboli

Happiness Quotes

“The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
“Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.” ~ Robert S. Lynd
“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.” ~ William Feather
“Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.” ~ Sri Chinmoy
“One joy scatters a hundred griefs.” ~ Chinese Proverb
“Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.” ~ Stephen Fry
“We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.” ~ Walter Savage Landor
“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
“The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” ~ Omar Khayyam

Happy Quotes

“People say that money isn’t the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.” ~ Joan Rivers
“If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.” ~ Mother Teresa
“Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.” ~ J. K. Rowling
“Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called ‘all the things that could go wrong.’” ~ Marianne Williamson
“I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.” ~ Paul Simon
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” ~ Maya Angelou
“Happiness is like a cloud — if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.” ~ Sarah McLachlan
“Be happy in your body. It’s the only one you’ve got, so you might as well like it.” ~ Keira Knightley
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” ~ Steven Kloves
“In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness — otherwise, how would you know when you’re happy?” ~ Leslie Caron

Happiness Quotes

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” ~ Albert Camus
“Recognizing and appreciating what you have in life brings happiness.” ~ ureadthis
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” ~ George Burns
“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.” ~ Gustave Flaubert
“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” ~ Dale Carnegie
“Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
“Be happy. It really annoys negative people.” ~ Ricky Gervais
“Happiness, in truth, lies within you. Starting from you and ending with you.” ~ ureadthis

Happy Quotes

“Happiness is an inside job.” ~ William Arthur Ward
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
“We are born with happiness, joy and fun; Why do we search it outside?” ~ ureadthis
“Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.” ~ Milton Erickson
“I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.” ~ Dalai Lama
“People should find happiness in the little things, like family.” ~ Amanda Bynes
“Happiness, not in another place but this place… not for another hour, but this hour.” ~ Walt Whitman
“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
“True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” ~ Helen Keller
“Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson