70 Very Best Happiness Quotes List to Share

Are you searching for the best happiness quotes and tired of finding many that don't have the authenticity and ring of truth you are hoping for. Take a look at this curated list of some of the best happiness quotes ever.

What are some of the best happiness quotes?

I have selected what I consider to be the top quotes by famous people about finding happiness, many of whom have investigated the pursuit of happiness in depth.

Happiness quotes are a great way to get in touch with yourself, your aspirations and inner wisdom. If you are trying to figure out the path to finding your own happiness, I hope this collection of happiness quotes will unlock some key to happiness for you or at the very least brighten your day.

Remember there is a lot out there to be grateful for. Happiness can be yours for the taking if choose to be happy. It is all about attitude.

Enjoy these best happiness quotes!

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius





Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.
Palmer Sondreal





Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln





If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy








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 which has opened for us.
Helen Keller





Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
Cynthia Nelms





Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
Charles M. Schwab









A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
Lillian Gish





Happiness is a form of courage.
Holbrook Jackson





Happiness is a state of activity.
Aristotle





Happiness is a function of accepting what is.
Werner Erhard









One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
Iris Murdoch





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





Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt





Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore











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





Happiness is a direction, not a place.
Sydney J. Harris





The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
Doug Larson





A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.
Gregory Benford











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





Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch





Happiness is... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
Thomas Szasz





Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower.
John Harrigan









Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold





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





The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1.
Unknown





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











Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Leo Tolstoy





I'd far rather be happy than right any day.
Douglas Adams





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





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











Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
Hermann Hesse





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





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





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









Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Marcel Proust





Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.
Mary Lou Retton





Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell





Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.
Buddha











The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andre Maurois





The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
Brian Tracy





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





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









Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
Dennis Waitley





Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.
Gerard Way





Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour.
Walt Whitman





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









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





Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle





The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge





Whoever is happy will make others happy.
Anne Frank









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





Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
Rose Wilder Lane





Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama





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









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





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





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





Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.
Colette








The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer





Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
John Stuart Mill





Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.
Sri Chinmoy





Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.
J. Petit-Senn








Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
Marcus Aurelius





In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson





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





The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo








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





Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson





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





Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I’ve learned, that’s the path to happiness.
Lesley Ann Warren





Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are, it solely relies on what you think.
Buddha





There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Freya Stark





We overthink happiness. Keep it simple. There is something good in every moment, find it and keep your focus there.
Kristen Butler





Be happy for what you have while working for what you want.
Helen Keller





Take time to do what makes your soul happy.
Unknown





He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson





Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie





The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh





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

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