Happiness is about finding an activity that you enjoy. Happiness has even been linked to physical health. Purchasing material items odes not make you happy. Finding meaning in your daily work and discovering what makes you feel good on a day-to-day basis will set you on the path to happiness. Here are 10 funny happiness quotes that will make you laugh till you cry:
1. “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
– A. A. Milne
2. “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
– Abraham Lincoln
3. “All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.”
– Alexander Woollcott
4. “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
– Mark Twain
5. “War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.”
– Ambrose Bierce
6. “Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.”
– Bertolt Brecht
7. “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
– Abraham Lincoln
8. “It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads.”
– Andy Borowitz
9. “Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.”
– Denis Waitley
10. “Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.”
– Saul Bellow
11. “True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
12. “The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”
– Andy Rooney
13. “Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.”
– Zhuangzi
14. “If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”
– Abraham Lincoln
15. “If you want your children to listen, try talking softly to someone else.”
– Ann Landers
16. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
– Marthe Troly-Curtin
17. “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
– Charles Spurgeon
18. “Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.”
– Anton Chekhov
19. “It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.”
– Seneca
20. “Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.”
– Bil Keane
21. “The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
– Abraham Lincoln
22. “Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change.”
– Friedrich Schiller
23. “I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.”
– Arthur C. Clarke
24. “The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.”
– Richard Bach
25. “Happiness is a direction, not a place.”
– Sydney J. Harris
26. “My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I’m right.”
– Ashleigh Brilliant
27. “The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
28. “The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.”
– Al McGuire
29. “Happiness seems made to be shared.”
– Pierre Corneille
30. “To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.”
– Ashleigh Brilliant
31. “Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
– Elbert Hubbard
32. “We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.”
– Pierre Corneille
33. “Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.”
– Benjamin Franklin
34. “The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here.”
– Robert Green Ingersoll
35. “Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.”
– Alan Dundes
36. “Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.”
– Benjamin Franklin
37. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
38. “Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.”
– William E. Gladstone
39. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”
– James Oppenheim
40. “Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born?”
– Benny Hill
41. “Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”
– Buddha
42. “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
– Albert Camus
43. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
– Bernard Baruch
44. “Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember.”
– Oscar Levant
45. “If you want to be happy, be.”
– Leo Tolstoy
46. “Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
– Abraham Lincoln
47. “Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.”
– Bertrand Russell
48. “When ambition ends, happiness begins.”
– Thomas Merton
49. “The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”
– Albert Einstein
50. “What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”
– Leo Buscaglia
