Everyone wants to be happy, but sometimes life gets tough and makes it hard to smile. While life's challenges can sometimes overshadow our moments of joy. However, the right words can lift our spirits. I am sharing some life-related quotes about happiness that can help you feel better and bring a smile to your face.
Here are 40 happiness quotes that promise to bring a smile to your face and a sense of contentment to your heart.
- "If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes." —Andrew Carnegie
- "Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are." —Chinese Proverb
- "Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." —Margaret Lee Runbeck
- “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
- "True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." —Helen Keller
- "Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting." —Bernard Meltzer
- "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity." —Carl Jung
- "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
- "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." —Dale Carnegie
- "We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you're doing is in the doing of it. It's not what you're gonna get in the end—it's not the final curtain—it's really in the doing it, and loving what you're doing." —Ralph Lauren
- “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ” ?Epictetus
- “Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.” ?Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.” ?Andy Rooney
- “Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections” ?Bob Marley
- “One must believe in the possibility of happiness to be happy.” —Leo Tolstoy
- “The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” ?J.M. Barrie
- “Happiness is only real when shared.” ?Christopher McCandless
- “You must be the best judge of your happiness.” ?Jane Austen
- “One is happy as a result of one's efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.” ?George Sand
- “There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.” ?C.S. Lewis
- “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
- “Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our hearts?” ?Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- “A flower blossoms for its joy.” ?Oscar Wilde
- “Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight to conquer it.” ?Alexandre Dumas
- “Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.” ?Honoré de Balzac
- “Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear” ?Taylor Swift
- "For me, it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book, and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief." Fernandez de Andrada
- "You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy." Alan Cohen
- "The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than growing with them." Bernard M. Baruch
- "Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect." Alain De Botton
- "If you start to think the problem is 'out there,' stop yourself. That thought is the problem." Stephen Covey
- "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
- "Security is when everything is settled when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life." Germaine Greer
- "Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it." Greg Anderson
- "The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature, and God. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, then there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be." Anne Frank
- "In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom." Buddha
- "Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is." Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey
- "You never regret being kind." Nicole Shepherd
- "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Ben Franklin
- "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." Paul Boese
These quotes serve as gentle reminders that happiness is within our reach, often in the simplest of moments and choices. By reflecting on these words of wisdom, we can find inspiration to create more joy in our lives and spread it to those around us. Embrace these insights, and may they bring a smile to your face and warmth to your heart.
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