50 Best Happiness Quotes Which Really Makes You Smile

1. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

3. “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”― Abraham Lincoln

4. “Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.”– Alan Cohen

5. “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”― Ernest Hemingway

6. “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”– Albert Camus

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

8. “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”― John Lennon

9. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”― J.R.R. Tolkien

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

11. “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”― Gabriel García Márquez

12. “People should find happiness in the little things, like family.”– Amanda Bynes

13. “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”― Chuck Palahniuk

14. “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”― Bertrand Russell

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

16. “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get”― W. P. Kinsella

17. “All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”– Baruch Spinoza

18. “The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”― Bette Midler

19. “A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.”– Bernard de Fontenelle

20. “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”― Ayn Rand

21. “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”– Carrie Jones

22. “It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”― Haruki Murakami

23. “There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”– Charlotte Bronte

24. “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”― Steve Maraboli

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

26. “I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”― Alexandre Dumas

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

28. “I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”― Jane Austen

29. “People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat – that’s the only moral they know.”– Dany Laferrière

30. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”― Marcus Aurelius

31. “I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success.”– Diego Val

32. “Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.”– Don Marquis

33. “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.”― Steve Maraboli

34. “If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.”– Edith Wharton

35. “Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”― Charlotte Bronte

36. “The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”– Eric Hoffer

37. “Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”― Guillaume Apollinaire

38. “Happiness is a place between too much and too little.”– Finnish proverb

39. “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”― Robert Frost

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

41. “Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”― Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline

42. “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”– George Burns

43. “It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life”― Henrik Ibsen

44. “Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.”– Gretta Brooker Palmer

45. “We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”― Charles Bukowski

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

47. “Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens”― Tony DeLiso

48. “Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.”– Hosea Ballou

49. “Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.”– J. Petit Senn

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