Our latest collection of happiness quotes on Everyday Power.

We all have times when we can use some amazing quotes about happiness in our lives.

A day that we are a little gloomy and down. A time when we just need a positive thought to life us out of the fog. Because we want you to be happier, below is a list of quotes about happiness for you to use when you need a little injection of happiness. Keep them somewhere that you can see them easily and keep them accessible.

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Best Happiness Quotes About Life and Love

1. “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” – Confucius

2. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” –Oscar Wilde

3. “Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” – Dennis Waitley

4. “The only joy in the world is to begin.” – Cesare Pavese

5. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

6. “The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.” – Aesop

Quotes about happiness and change in your life

7. “Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.” – Friedrich Schiller

8. “Nothing makes a person happier than having a happy heart.”― Roy T. Bennett

9. “Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.”― Eleanor Roosevelt

10. “I’d far rather be happy than right any day.” – Douglas Adams

11. “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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Happy quotes about daily life

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

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

14. “Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” – Benjamin Disraeli

15. “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

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

17. “Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.” – Stacey Charter

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Quotes on happiness and our choices

18. “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

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

20. “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius

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

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

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Quotes on being happy, right here and right now

23. “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

24. “Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.” –Heraclitus

25. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein

26. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Marthe Troly-Curtin

27. “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

28. “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop

29. “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.” – Dale Carnegie

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30. “We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.” – Dalai Lama

31. “Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.” – Rose Lane

32. “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

33. “Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.” – Unknown

34. “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

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Happy life quotes about not blaming others for our problems

35. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” –Albert Ellis

36. “There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.” – Seneca

37. “If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.” – Joseph Addison

38. “I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” – Groucho Marx

39. “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

40. “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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Happiness quotes about moving on and pushing forward

41. “A smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place. When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.”― Roy T. Bennett

42. “My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.”― Ayn Rand

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

44. “Happiness is acceptance.” – Unknown

45. “The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” – Ashley Montagu

46. “It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don’t know everything.”― Alexander McCall Smith

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

48. “It is a happiness to wonder; — it is a happiness to dream.”― Edgar Allan Poe

49. “Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure.”― Arthur Schopenhauer

50. “Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.”― Marie Rutkoski

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51. “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

52. “Just because it didn’t last forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while.” – Unknown

53. “That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.” – Henry David Thoreau

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

55. “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

56. “Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” – Buddha

57. “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

58. “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

59. “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” – Albert Camus

60. “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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More happiness quotes and sayings

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

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

63. “They’ve got no idea what happiness is, they don’t know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us–there is no life.” – Leo Tolstoy

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

65. “You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.” – Wayne Dyer

66. “Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.” – Jacques Prévert

67. “We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.” – George Bernard Shaw

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

69. “Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” – Margaret Lee Runbeck

70. “Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life.” – Todd Stocker

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Happiness Quotes to Help You Find Purpose in Life

71. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama

72. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon

73. “Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Stephen King

74. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

75. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison

76. “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” – Albert Einstein

77. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Babe Ruth

78. “Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.” — Will Smith

79. “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” — Seneca

80. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” – Henry Ford

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