50 Happiness Quotes – Meaningful Quotes for Happiness

This post is dedicated to happiness … the whole blog is dedicated to happiness.

So, here are 50 happiness quotes for you – meaningful words of wisdom to make you smile, wonder or just relax.

Quotes Source: goodreads

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

2. Happiness is not doing fun things. Happiness is doing meaningful things. – Maxime Lagacé

3. For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. – Guillaume Apollinaire

5. That’s your unlimited desires that are clouding your peace, your happiness. – Naval Ravikant

6. True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self. – Joseph Addison

7. You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. – Jonathan Safran Foer

8. It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness. – Richard Branson

9. People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. – Anton Chekhov

10. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. – Ernest Hemingway

11. All happiness depends on courage and work. – Honoré de Balzac

12. Happiness does not lead to gratitude. Gratitude leads to happiness. – David Steindl-Rast

13. Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

14. 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 it. – Dale Carnegie

15. The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. – Chuck Palahniuk

16. Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. – Augustine of Hippo

17. The greatest secret to happiness and peace is letting every life situation be what it is, instead of what you think it should be. Then, make the very best of it. – Thibaut

18. On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. – William R. Inge

19. I have only two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy. – Allen J. Lefferdink

20. Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice. – Naval Ravikant

21. Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. – Roy T. Bennett

22. You can’t buy happiness but you can buy ice cream. And that’s kind of the same thing. – Unknown

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

24. Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. – Joseph Addison

25. We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh. – William James

26. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. – Dalai Lama

27. So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? – Hunter S. Thompson

28. 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

29. Whoever is happy will make others happy. – Anne Frank

30. One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows. – Chinese proverb

31. Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. – Thomas Jefferson

32. There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. – George Sand

33. The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. – William Saroyan

34. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome. – Friedrich Nietzsche

35. Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy: Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character.Manners. Health.Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity. – Roy T. Bennett

36. 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

37. .Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness. – Steve Maraboli

38. Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. – Abraham Lincoln

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

40. Being happy is being satisfied. Being satisfied means accepting. – Maxime Lagacé

41. This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. – Susan Polis Schutz

42. Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness. – Ayn Rand

43. Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved. – Roy T. Bennett

44. 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

45. Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness. – Frank Tyger

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

47. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more. – Roy T. Bennett

48. One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. – Rita Mae Brown

49. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. – Omar Khayyam

50. Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.  – William James

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50 Happiness Quotes – Meaningful Quotes for Happiness