Everyone wants and deserves happiness, but it doesn’t come easy for some. Life can throw us all kinds of curve balls that throw our smiles out the window.
These handy happy quotes are great to keep in your back pocket for when you need a quick happy fix. It’s time to turn that frown upside down with these 50 happy quotes!
50 Happy Quotes to inspire your inner happiness
1.”It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness”. -Richard Branson
2. People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. -Anton Chekhov
3. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters. -Audrey Hepburn
4. Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness. -Ayn Rand
5. “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be”. -Abraham Lincoln
6. ” Whoever is happy, will make others happy”. – Anne Frank
7. “Happiness does not lead to gratitude. Gratitude leads to happiness.” -David Steindl-Rast
8.”There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” -Nelson Mandela
9.” 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
10. “Be happy. It really annoys negative people.” -Ricky Gervais
11. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
12. “Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.” –J. Petit Senn
13.”My best advice for finding inner happiness is to reach outside yourself, to use your talents and brains and personality to make life better for someone else.” –Nick Vujicic
14.“Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.”-Unknown
15. “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present”. –Jim Rohn
16.“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
17.“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
18. Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.”–
19.“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”-Steve Jobs
20.“People should find happiness in the little things, like family.” -Amanda Bynes
21.”To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” – Oscar Wilde.
22. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” –
23. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” – George Addair
24.”The harder you fall, the higher the bounce.”-Unknown
25.“If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.” -Steve Maraboli
26. “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.”– Unknown
27.“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein
28. “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Unknown
29.“When I was five 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’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”-John Lennon
30. “Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” –
31.“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”–
32.“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.”–
33.“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”-Aristotle
34. Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.”–
35.”People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.”-Kent M. Keith
36.“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”–
37.“Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.”–
38. “You must not wallow in negative emotions, because then they will cloud your perspective, and even prevent you from achieving happiness.”– Melinda Bauer
39.“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” –Marcus Aurelius
40.“When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.”-
41.“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” –
42.“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” –J.R.R. Tolkien
43.“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” –Marcus Aurelius
44.“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” –
45.“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Josuha.J Marine
46.“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” –
47.“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”–
48.“Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is.” -Mandy Hale
49.“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable than risk being happy.”–Dr. Robert Anthony
50.“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” –
We hope you’ve enjoyed these Happy Quotes and you’re feeling much more happier! Spread happiness and share them with your friends and family on social media.
Emmy is the founder and content writer at woopdedo. With a background in the performing arts, she then had a career working on cruise ships, until she decided to return to NZ where she spends most of her time storytelling and freelance writing. You can contact her on the social media links below or visit the work with us page.
