113 Uplifting Happiness Quotes

In a world where the hustle and bustle of daily life can easily overshadow our sense of joy, finding little pockets of happiness becomes essential. Whether it's a simple smile from a stranger or a few words of encouragement, the power of positivity is undeniably uplifting. For those moments when you need an extra dose of sunshine, we've gathered a curated collection of 113 uplifting happiness quotes. These pearls of wisdom, from celebrated thinkers and everyday dreamers alike, are here to remind you of the beauty and joy that surrounds us all. Dive into this treasure trove and let these inspiring words spark a smile, ignite your spirit, and brighten your day.

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

2. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” - Aristotle

3. “How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.” - Nikos Kazantzakis

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

5. “The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” - George Washington Burnap

6. “To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,One clover, and a bee,And revery.The revery alone will do,If bees are few.” - Emily Dickinson

7. “Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.” - Marianne Williamson

8. “It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.” - Alexander McCall Smith

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

10. “I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness--provided a person doesn't ask much of life. I want everything of life, I do; and I want it now! I want it total, complete: otherwise I reject it! I will not be moderate. I will not be satisfied with the bit of cake you offer me if I promise to be a good little girl. I want to be sure of everything this very day; sure that everything will be as beautiful as when I was a little girl. If not, I want to die!” - Jean Anouilh

11. “There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.” - C.S. Lewis

12. “Sharing is caring.” - Asraa Abdelqader

13. “Não é verdade que a felicidade é aquilo que procuramos sem nunca sermos capazes de a reconhecer?” - Marc Levy

14. “How can one explain this trend towards a more colorless and shallow life? Well, the work was easier, if less healthy, and it brought in more money, more leisure, and perhaps more entertainment. A day in the country is long and hard. And yet the fruits of their present life were worthless compared to a single coin of their former life: a rest in the evening and a rural festivity. That they no longer knew the old kind of happiness was obvious from the discontentment which spread over their features. Soon dissatisfaction, prevailing over all their other moods, became their religion.” - Ernst Jünger

15. “In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?” - Leslie Caron

16. “Happiness is not the absence of problems; it's the ability to deal with them.” - Steve Maraboli

17. “I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth” - William Shakespeare

18. “Free yourself from the complexities of your life! A life of simplicity and happiness awaits you.” - Steve Maraboli

19. “He tapped my chest. 'Happy is here.' He tapped his own chest. 'Here.'I looked down past my chin. 'Inside?''Inside.'It was getting crowded in there. First angel. Now happy. It seemed there was more to me than cabbage and turnips.” - Jerry Spinelli

20. “There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.” - Shannon Hale

21. “We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.” - Ayn Rand

22. “May those who follow their fate be granted happiness; may those who defy it be granted glory” - Mizuo Shinonome

23. “The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.” - Jean de La Bruyère

24. “I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.” - Joanne Harris

25. “You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".” - Lauren Oliver

26. “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.” - Carrie Jones

27. “I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.” - Charles Dickens

28. “The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!”(Analects 6.11)” - Confucius

29. “It might be true that it is “quality time” that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality.” - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

30. “Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace.” - Dennis Lehane

31. “I looked long and hard for the paper roses! I found the reddest red ribbon, and a little golden card! We were all there together, many of us, in the same place; but I was the only one who found the paper roses, the only one who chose the reddest red ribbon, and the only one who topped off with a golden card. And so I learned that if people are unhappy, it is only because they don't know how to look for the paper roses, they don't see the reddest red ribbon, and they don't like the little golden cards. We are all in the same wrap-shoppe in this life. But we are different. Because some of us are looking for the paper roses, choosing the reddest red ribbon, and picking up the little golden cards.” - C. JoyBell C.

32. “To buy a cake... to howl at the moon... to know true happiness... I am happy.” - C. JoyBell C.

33. “Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life.” - Steve Maraboli

34. “When you've succeeded, you'd say:'Indeed I'd to go through those hell before fit into all of this happiness.” - Toba Beta

35. “Suffering sucks. Don't do it. Go home and love your wife. Go home and love yourself. Go homeand base your happiness on one thing and one thing only: freedom. Choose freedom, not suffering. Create a life of freedom, not wanting. Have some really good coffee and listen to the red-winged blackbirds in the marsh. Ignore the mosquitoes.” - Laura Munson

36. “Whoever said happiness needs a plan?” - Robert Holden

37. “Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had been - sharp, piercing, and snatched, like a breath while swimming in surf.” - Elizabeth Knox

38. “People argue themselves out of their pleasures” - Jude Morgan

39. “The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” - James Matthew Barrie

40. “I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...” - C.S. Lewis

41. “I let all that anger and worry go because they don't belong to me any more than the future does. And I don't wanna feel them anyhow, because the truth is, whatever happens when this war ends, here and now, far from Richmond County, I'm freer than I've ever been.” - Teresa R. Funke

42. “Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…” - Louisa May Alcott

43. “Happiness. It comes onunexpectedly. And goes beyond, really,any early morning talk about it.” - Raymond Carver

44. “They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that’s the key: simple.” - Dolly Parton

45. “He had learned that, as there is no situation in the world in which a man can be happy and perfectly free, so there is no situation in which he can be perfectly unhappy and unfree.” - Leo Tolstoy

46. “Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy!” - C. JoyBell C.

47. “Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.” - Jeremy Bentham

48. “Sometimes it just feels really really wonderful to be alive.” - Doug Coupland

49. “Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries woven by some unknown weaver on a far Oriental shore, in some antique time? No. We show our home to our friends with the pride as if it were our home, which it is. Why then should we take less pride when reading a book written by some long-dead author? Is it not our book just as much, or even more so, than theirs? So the landowner says, ‘Look at my beautiful home! Isn’t it fine?’ And not, ‘Look at the home so-and-so has built.’ Thus we shouldn’t cry, ‘Look what so-and-so has written. What a genius so-and-so is!’ But rather, ‘Look at what I have read! Am I not a genius? Have I not invented these pages? The walls of this universe, did I not build? The souls of these characters, did I not weave?” - Roman Payne

50. “Marriage is a wonderful invention; but then again so is a bicycle repair kit.” - Billy Connolly

51. “Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most.” - Rodolfo Costa

52. “When you find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will stand in front of you when other’s cast stones, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who will hold your hand when your sick, who thinks your pretty without makeup, the one who turns to his friends and say, ‘that’s her’, the one that would bear your rejection because losing you means losing his will to live, who kisses you when you screw up, watches the stars and names one for you and will hold and rock that baby for hours so you can sleep…..you marry him all over again.” - Shannon Alder

53. “Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.” - Neal Shusterman

54. “I hate going through this when we just found...," his voice trailed off."Found what?""Each other," he finished, half-smiling.” - Markelle Grabo

55. “That no man can truly imagine being happy and that's why happiness isn't for sale here.” - Robin Hobb

56. “A week feels like a year when you’re seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the gravel crunched melodiously under our feet as we danced onward through the night.” - Chloe Rattray

57. “Sometimes we assume that the new person in our life is better for us because they are totally different from the last person we dated. Only later do we see that we have chosen a different version of the same thing and they both leave us unsatisfied.” - Kristen Crockett

58. “Das Glück ist das einzige, das sich verdoppelt, wenn man es teilt.” - Albert Schweitzer

59. “Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.” - Booker T. Washington

60. “We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one” - Voltaire

61. “disputing nothing is the first step through the difficult door of happiness” - Padgett Powell

62. “Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.” - Ayn Rand

63. “Last weekend a young man asked me how I remain so positive. “It seems all the negativity in the world doesn’t affect you,” he said. I had no more than a minute with the young man so I offered this: It’s all about where you choose to put your attention, and I choose to be happy.” - Jason Mraz

64. “When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us, so that we can enjoy the simple joy of being happy and at peace with ourselves.” - Jess C. Scott

65. “An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the cold blue lakes, or out over the Mojave Desert, with its weird vegetation and immense vistas. Not very far away are Death Valley, and Yosemite, and Sequoia Forest with its giant trees which were growing long before the Parthenon was built; they are the oldest living things in the world. One should visit such places often, and be conscious, in the midst of the city, of their surrounding presence. For this is the real nature of California and the secret of its fascination; this untamed, undomesticated, aloof, prehistoric landscape which relentlessly reminds the traveller of his human condition and the circumstances of his tenure upon the earth. "You are perfectly welcome," it tells him, "during your short visit. Everything is at your disposal. Only, I must warn you, if things go wrong, don't blame me. I accept no responsibility. I am not part of your neurosis. Don't cry to me for safety. There is no home here. There is no security in your mansions or your fortresses, your family vaults or your banks or your double beds. Understand this fact, and you will be free. Accept it, and you will be happy.” - Christopher Isherwood

66. “It sometimes takes a state of solitude to bring to mind the real power of companionship.” - Stephen Richards

67. “Happiness comes in many forms — in the company of good friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else’s dream come true, or in the promise of hope renewed. It’s okay to let yourself be happy because you never know how fleeting that happiness might be.” - Lucas Scott

68. “Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.” - Deborah Day

69. “Hope finds its fulfillment when nurtured through faith and shared with love.” - Mollie Marti

70. “Your life isn't behind you; your memories are behind you. Your life is ALWAYS ahead of you. Today is a new day - seize it!” - Steve Maraboli

71. “Whatever your desire, use Cosmic Ordering to get what you require!” - Stephen Richards

72. “Benar. Kita tak pernah lagi menjumpai kebahagiaan yang setara dengan kebahagiaan masa kanak-kanak kita." Pablo mengangguk sedih.” - John Steinbeck

73. “Oui, c'est votre idée, à vous tous, les ouvriers français, déterrer un trésor, pour le manger seul ensuite, dans un coin d'égoïsme et de fainéantise. Vous avez beau crier contre les riches, le courage vous manque de rendre aux pauvres l'argent que la fortune vous envoie... Jamais vous ne serez dignes du bonheur, tant que vous aurez quelque chose à vous, et que votre haine des bourgeois viendra uniquement de votre besoin enragé d'être des bourgeois à leur place.” - Émile Zola

74. “There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.” - Edith Wharton

75. “If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.” - Paulo Coelho

76. “For each door of sadness that opens, there are a thousand means of shutting it...” - Muhammad Adb Al-Rahman Al-Arifi

77. “But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.” - Lauren Oliver

78. “So, that's the secret to happiness? Don't tak life seriously?" I ask."No," she says. "Take life seriously. That you have to do. Don't take yourself seriously, that's the key. Let it all go. Don't care for a second what people think of you. In fact, go out of your way to keep them guessing.” - Katie Kacvinsky

79. “-Me has dicho que no dura, que desear ser feliz nunca dura. Así que lo que me haría sentir completa es formar parte de algo en vez de ser invisible, pero no quiero desear eso. No puede que sea tan patética para desear algo así –su voz se apaga. –No sé qué hacer.Me río. No quiero, pero no puedo evitarlo. No me extraña que no pueda saber lo que quiere, puesto que no es un auténtico deseo. Los ojos de Viola brillan de ira.-Me alegro de que te haga gracia.Suelto otra carcajada.-Bueno, es que es imposible ser una persona rota por completo. No eres más que una persona. Solo puedes existir. Solo formas parte de ti misma, tú eres la única responsable de tu felicidad o de lo que sea. Ese sentimiento de estar rota o completa no es más que un truco de la mente mortal. Los tres deseos no te harán sentir más completa de lo que eres ahora. Al menos no por mucho tiempo.” - Jackson Pearce

80. “Let the trials in your life guide you not define you” - Kim Cormack

81. “Don't dilute yourself for any person or any reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you.” - Steve Maraboli

82. “Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.” - Neil Gaiman

83. “Relationships are complicated, but happiness in a relationship isn't: It's just wanting exactly what you have. Wanting something else is dispiriting.” - Carolyn Hax

84. “When you are present, you are not needy.” - John Kuypers

85. “Learning how to recognize and act on your Inner Knowing is the greatest tool for discovering what's important now by living in the present.” - John Kuypers

86. “When you are authentic without an intent to harm others, you give yourself an awesome feeling which is the feeling of self-love.” - John Kuypers

87. “The Paradox of Change: People can only change when they feel accepted as they are now.” - John Kuypers

88. “Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.” - Bob Goddard

89. “There occurs the beautiful feeling that only humanity together is the true human being, and that the individual can be cheerful and happy only if he has the courage to feel himself in the Whole.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

90. “All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.” - Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing

91. “Uneori uit unde mă aflu şi zâmbesc aşa, fără motiv. Câteodată sunt vesel. Vesel de tot. Pentru că uit de mine. Mă pierd pe undeva, în vreun loc depărtat, cum ai uita o carte pe fereastră.” - Marin Sorescu

92. “When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come topeace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and findsuch a blessed sense of rest!” - Charles Dickens

93. “You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.” - Paulo Coelho

94. “Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone.” - Ashly Lorenzana

95. “Happiness is feeling confident that the god of this universe is pleased with the things you say and do.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

96. “Le ChatJe souhaite dans ma maison:Une femme ayant sa raison.Un chat passant parmi les livres.Des amis en toute saisonSans lesquels je ne peux pas vivre.” - Guillaume Apollinaire

97. “I like Kindness it's something the Government can't tax and it's free to give away that will return to you some day” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

98. “A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.” - Dalai Lama XIV

99. “Watch any plant or animal and let it teach you acceptance of what is, surrender to the Now.Let it teach you Being.Let it teach you integrity — which means to be one, to be yourself, to be real.Let it teach you how to live and how to die, and how not to make living and dying into a problem.” - Eckhart Tolle

100. “As Sancho said, money does not buy happiness but it does buy nearly everything else.” - Isabel Allende

101. “Quienquiera que se inventase eso de que el dinero no hace la felicidad, se regocija Lloyd Hooks, está claro que no tenía bastante.” - David Mitchell

102. “I BELIEVE EVERYONE IS SPECIAL . . . BUT SOME PEOPLE THINK . . . . IT'S JUST ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING NO-ONE IS” - ASHISH RANJAN

103. “You can still make today the day you change yourself, love yourself, forgive yourself, respect yourself, honor yourself, cherish yourself, admire yourself, express yourself, be true to yourself... It’s never too late!” - Steve Maraboli

104. “We would do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit.” - Steve Maraboli

105. “All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them; but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls.” - Rosalia de Castro

106. “If you find yourself unwilling to share, you are cheating yourself.” - Beth Johnson

107. “From human problems come human solutions, which in turn spawn inspiration, creativity, insight and enlightenment. Without life's problems, life would become stagnant, dull and boring.” - Beth Johnson

108. “You were not meant for a life of mediocrity! Stop letting the regret of yesterday and the insecurity of tomorrow steal your today. Live this day! Do not allow your spirit to be softened or your happiness to be limited by a day you cannot have back or a day that does not yet exist. Take charge! Seize this day and allow upon this fertile day to be planted the seeds of your happiness and success.” - Steve Maraboli

109. “Todas as famílias felizes se parecem, cada família infeliz é infeliz à sua maneira.” - Tolstoi

110. “Self-love isn’t always so poetic; sometimes it’s a nice big triple back flip kick in the ass. You’ve got to call yourself on your own nonsense; on the incredibly efficient way you can be self-destructive.” - Steve Maraboli

111. “Happiness, after all, is found in the simplest of things.” - Steve Maraboli

112. “I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.” - Hermann Hesse

113. “The relationship you take for granted is the one that needs the greatest work.” - George Alexiou