143 Happy Quotes

In a world that often feels chaotic and overwhelming, a few well-chosen words can make all the difference. That's why we've curated a special collection of the top 143 happy quotes to lift your spirits and brighten your day. Whether you're looking for a quick boost of positivity or a thoughtful message to share with a friend, these quotes are sure to bring a smile to your face. Join us as we explore a treasure trove of happiness, inspiration, and joy—all encapsulated in the power of words. Let's embark on this uplifting journey together!

1. “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” - Anne Frank

2. “For you where never my blood sister so no more shall I call you little sister” - Helen Dunmore

3. “Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.” - Alexandre Dumas

4. “hi I hope u want to be my friends” - Judy Blume

5. “I'm a happy person. If you want to be around me, you can either choose to be happy too, or follow the signs to the nearest exit!” - Sharon Swan

6. “I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.” - Steve Irwin

7. “God doesn't bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing.” - Warren Wiersbe

8. “...happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement....” - Aristotle

9. “He tells me I look as if I could use a hugand i laugh at him and he ignores me and steps forward and puts his arms around me and hugs me. I warm at the simple pleasure of human contact and for the first time in a long time i actually feel good." (James Frey, pg.38)” - james frey

10. “Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy.” - Peter Deunov

11. “One: Don't play leapfrog with elephants.Two: Don't pet a tiger unless his tail is wagging.Three: Never, ever, mess with the Ladies Auxiliary.-Mayberry Rules for a Long, Happy Life” - Lauren Myracle

12. “It is not that one is good; one is happy.” - Xavier Forneret

13. “Nana... How come being happy and making your dreams come true are two different things? Even now, I still don't know why...” - Ai Yazawa

14. “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

15. “I was just thinking if the sex with you is one-tenth as fun as arguing with you. I'll be one happy bastard.""You'll never find out. You--------" He kissed me. ~ Jack Travis & Ella Varner” - Lisa Kleypas

16. “If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he's spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don't think a tree looks at it that way. I am just like that, and it is just my nature to be like this.” - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

17. “Sandy is kind. But she has a smart mind” - Elizabeth

18. “He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.” - Jon Krakauer

19. “Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.” - Stephen Fry

20. “It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.” - Sebastian Barry

21. “you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.” - Ilona Andrews

22. “Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but it’s here if you choose to come back to it.” - Ilona Andrews

23. “You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it couldn’t possibly be quite as good? That’s what it felt like.” - Jodi Picoult

24. “In pursuit of happiness, smart people often end up dumbing down themselves.” - Erol Ozan

25. “Be your own kind of Beautiful” - LDS Church

26. “Free at last, he thought. Great God Almighty, I'm free at last. Then: I believe this is redemption. And it's good, isn't it? Quite good, indeed.” - Stephen King

27. “I am seldom otherwise than happy while watching in the chamber of death... . I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter--the Eternity they have entered--where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness.” - Emily Brontë

28. “Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or a convergence of lucky happenstance. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves.” - Wayne Coyne

29. “Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the only sort of person who deserves to be called happy. But mark this: until he is dead, keep the word "happy" in reserve. Till then, he is not happy, but only lucky...” - Herodotus

30. “I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.” - Patricia Highsmith

31. “I think we deserve a happily-ever-after.""If anyone ever did, it's us.” - Jodi Picoult

32. “It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.” - David Gilmour

33. “And he knew at that moment that love world never die, that it would never fade away altogether. The time might come when he would meet and marry someone else. He might even be reasonably happy. But there would always be a deep precious place in his heart that belonged to his first real love.” - Mary Balogh

34. “You've got to S-M-I-L-ETo be H-A-Double-P-Y” - Shirley Temple

35. “I had to work so hard to find myself again, Alexandr." There was pain in her voice. "I was so lost without you. You left me raw and wounded and trapped in a dark place with no windows or doors. I didn't know how to live without you. I didn't know how to smile or feel or be. It took almost two years before I really accepted that it was over and I had to find a way to go on. I made myself strong. I'm alive again. I can wake up some mornings and be happy. I can look at the ocean and find peace again. Now you're asking me to risk everything all over again and I'm not certain I could survive if it all came crashing down.” - Christine Feehan

36. “After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.” - Sebastian Barry

37. “...and he smiled a lot. The smile did not mean that he was happy. It meant he was stronger than most people, and that he intended to take advantage of it.” - Michael Cadnum

38. “If to love each other is the job, then the happy life is the salary.” - Toba Beta

39. “Who’s happy? Happy is just what people think they are when they can’t find anything to bitch about.” - Rasmenia Massoud

40. “And the tree was happy” - Shel Silverstein

41. “Are the choices you are making going to really make you happy NOW or happy eventually?” - Robert Holden

42. “Sometimes in order to be happy in the present moment you have to be willing to give up all hope for a better past.” - Robert Holden

43. “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” - Roald Dahl

44. “To do what you love and are passionate about is a dream come true, My life is consumed by music and entertainment— and it’s the best life I could ever hope for.” - Blake Lewis

45. “When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.” - Oscar Wilde

46. “Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ­people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.” - P.D. James

47. “Happy is the people that is without history. And thrice is the people without sociology.” - Christopher Henry Dawson

48. “Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.” - Steve Carell

49. “Real is not Dreams, Dreams are not Real,Unless you find the fine line...and erase it” - C. Elizabeth

50. “I’d rather be miserable loving you than happy with anyone else.” - Angela Morrison

51. “Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy.” - Elizabeth Scott

52. “Happiness is the most tired word in any language.” - Erol Ozan

53. “You cannot mistake thisYou cannot reinvent this moment You cannot call this loveIt is so much more” - Jamie Weise

54. “It's a finger snapping kind of day.” - Jamie Weise

55. “Right, you've got a crooked sort of cross..." He consulted Unfogging the Future. "That means you're going to have 'trials and suffering' — sorry about that — but there's a thing that could be the sun... hang on... that means 'great happiness'... so you're going to suffer but be very happy...""You need your Inner Eye tested, if you ask me," said Ron, and they both had to stifle their laughs as Professor Trelawney gazed in their direction.” - J.K. Rowling

56. “May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch” - Keisha Keenleyside

57. “How stupid, I thought dreamily, to have ever thought I could give this up. Not just the kissing, although, as Archer’s hands cupped my face, I had toadmit that part was pretty awesome. But all of it: joking with him and working beside him. Being with a guy who was my friend and could stil makeme feel like this.” - Rachel Hawkins

58. “Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.” - Piers Anthony

59. “It's like one of those scenes from a feel-good Hollywood movie. Where everybody is happy and nobody's hair fizzes in the wind. Where it doesn't rain, your shoes stay comfortable all day, and everybody's jokes are funny.” - Randa Abdel-Fattah

60. “Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands.” - Louisa May Alcott

61. “What does it matter? Science has achieved some wonderful things, of course, but I'd far rather be happy than right any day.” - Douglas Adams

62. “The world is big conspiracy to make you happy.” - Santosh Kalwar

63. “I like joy; I want to be joyous. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that`s all I want. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.” - Doris Day

64. “Can you tell me what happened?"Her lips thinned as she shook her head. "'Tis not a happy tale.""You have me reading a book about a girl who tries to kill an entire town. Anything else at this point would be a pick me up.” - Jenny B. Jones

65. “Most people who think they're happy are really just stupid.” - Tom Kitt

66. “Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.” - Donna Woolfolk Cross

67. “I'm generally a happy person -with the help of antidepressants, that is- so there is something to be said for surrounding myself with happy people.” - Rachel Machacek

68. “I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy” - J.D. Salinger

69. “To be happy, make others happy.” - Stephen Richards

70. “If you've got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.” - Melody Carstairs

71. “No matter where life takes me, you'll find me with a smile. Presumed to be happy, always laughing like a child. I never thought life could be this sweet! It's got me cheesing from cheek to cheek!” - Mac Miller

72. “Each moment of a happy love's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.” - Aphra Behn

73. “The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.” - J.M. Barrie

74. “Happy roads is bunk. Weary roads is right. Get you nowhere fast. That's where I've got—nowhere. Where everyone lands in the end, even if most of the suckers won't admit it.” - Eugene O'Neill

75. “Begitulah manusia. Dikaruniai berkah cantik, pintar dan populer ternyata tidak cukup membahagiakan baut mereka. Memang ada begitu banyak hal menarik yang ada di dunia. Namun satu hal yang pasti, hanya cinta yang sanggup menjanjikan kebahagiaan.” - Lea Agustina Citra

76. “Being truly happy in life involves you feeling more in control of the direction your life is going.” - Deborah Day

77. “I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.)... 'I spoke to three scholars,' [the character says 'at last.'] ...two of them said that, after death, the [sic (misprint, fault of the publisher)] just go to Paradise. The third one, though, told me to consult some verses from the Koran. [end quote]' ...I can see that he's excited. [narrator]' ...Now I have many positive things to say about Coelho: He is respectable, inspiring as a man, a truth-seeker, and an appealing writer; but one should hesitate to call him a 'literary' writer based on this quote. A 'literary' author knows that a character's excitement should be 'shown' in his or her dialogue and not in the narrator's commentary on it. Advice for Coelho: Remove the 'I can see that he's excited' sentence and show his excitement in the phrasing of his quote.(Now, in defense of Coelho, I am firmly of the opinion, having myself written plenty of prose that is flawed, that a novelist should be forgiven for slipping here and there.)Lastly, it appears that a belief in reincarnation is of great interest to Mr. Coelho ... Just think! He is a man who has achieved, (as Leonard Cohen would call it), 'a remote human possibility.' He has won lots of fame and tons of money. And yet, how his preoccupation with reincarnation—none other than an interest in being born again as somebody else—suggests that he is not happy!” - Roman Payne

78. “While I was yearning for happiness I became happy.” - Ogwo David Emenike

79. “First seek happiness from within, then you will find it without.” - Ogwo David Emenike

80. “The commencement of true happiness is the realization that your happiness begins with you.” - Ogwo David Emenike

81. “The face of a truly happy man seldom lacks smiles.” - Ogwo David Emenike

82. “Always be happy, you never know how happy you can make another by just being happy.” - Ogwo David Emenike

83. “Happiness does not completely depend on comforts or opulence. Even a pauper can be happier than a prince.” - Ogwo David Emenike

84. “To be happy, you have to risk being unhappy.” - Ogwo David Emenike

85. “Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones.” - Philippos

86. “I find that I am most happy and healthy when I am living in alignment with my goals, dreams, and principles.” - Steve Maraboli

87. “This is what I wanted. This guy. This life. This me. I was never getting my old life back, and I didn't care. I was happy. I was safe. I was right where I wanted to be.” - Kelley Armstrong

88. “He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.” - Alan Hollinghurst

89. “Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealousreaders.) But it was all too much—too much emotion, too much happiness, too much longing, perhapstoo much ice cream…” - James Patterson

90. “At first happiness might seem like just desserts for biological fitness (more accurately, the states that would have led to fitness in the environment in which we evolved). We are happier when we are healthy, well-fed, comfortable, safe, prosperous, knowledgeable, respected, non-celibate, and loved. Compared to their opposites, these objects of striving are conducive to reproduction. The function of happiness would be to mobilize the mind to seek the keys to Darwinian fitness. When we are unhappy, we work for the things that make us happy; when we are happy, we keep the status quo. The problem is, how much fitness is worth striving for?” - Steven Pinker

91. “From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned agreement to Kessa's new discovery. They knew the secret too. They knew thin was good, thin was strong; thin was safe.” - Steven Levenkron

92. “Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life.” - Todd Stocker

93. “She expressed an opinion that the happiness of a woman in Paradise is beneath the soles of her husband's feet,' he enlightened humorously, seemingly not at all averse to her obvious desire to be comforted.” - Margaret Rome

94. “Success to me is being happy, truly fulfilled, being proud of myself, and doing different things all the time.” - Leighton Meester

95. “It made you happy...” - Richelle Mead

96. “I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, words burst out of me like a shout, or, if I'm sad, they spill out of me like tears, and if I'm happy my words are like a song. If that happens it's one of my rules not to change them because they're coming out of my heart and not my head, and that's the way they're meant to be.” - Glenda Millard

97. “Living the dream.” - Tom Giaquinto

98. “It's an amazing experience when you focus on the positive things in your life. Things start to change. You become happier. You see things differently. There might still be negative things there, but like an airplane flying overhead, they become the background noise of your mind.” - Tom Giaquinto

99. “I’m always thinking about what I’m missing. Even when I’m happy with what I have.” - Alyson Noel

100. “Liz: What's it like in hell?Ketut: Same like heaven. Universe is a circle, Liss. To up, to down -- all same, at end.Liz: Then how can you tell the difference between heaven and hell?Ketut: Because of how you go. Heaven, you go up, through seven happy places. Hell you go down, through seven sad places. This is why it better for you to go up, Liss.Liz: You mean, you might as well spend your life going upward, through the happy places, since heaven and hell -- same destinations -- are the same thing anyway?Ketut: Same-same. Same in end, so better be happy on journey.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

101. “Madoka: I want to erase the tears of all those who trusted in hope. I want them to be left with a smile on their faces.” - Magica Quartet

102. “Then, slowly, like the sunrise peeking over the horizon, she smiled.She snapped the box closed.She didn’t scream. She didn’t run. She didn’t faint.There might have been a little crying.But mostly… she danced.” - Cora Carmack

103. “Face everyday with positive thoughts & God will do the rest for you. :)” - Kyrell Pena

104. “ 'Sugar, aint you ever had no good time?' she said with a bit of sadness in her voice. 'What you mean?' Sugar said,...'Seems to me that I ain't never see you look up from whatever you were doing and just smile.''Just smile? Smile at what? At who?''Smile into the air, girl!' she said and waved her arm through the air....you better start, 'cause time is running and a life without good times ain't a life worth having.” - Bernice McFadden

105. “Maybe we should remember to smile more often. You know, just for the sake of smiling.” - Gabe Berman

106. “Being happy is easy. Easy until you start believing that happiness is tied to a relationship, a job, your income, a product you buy, fame, a status, or any of a number of things that you don't currently have in your possession. Being happy is easy, as long as you understand everything you need to be happy exist in you already. You just have to stop looking out and start looking in to find it.” - Sean King

107. “Think about how much better this world would be if people would just smile at each other more often...You don't have to talk; you don't have to agree on anything; all you have to do is smile! Smiling breaks barriers; it eases tension, and it's the first step to making a new friend.” - Tom Giaquinto

108. “Life is so short. The only person you hurt when you stay angry or hold grudges is you. Forgive everyone, including yourself.” - Tom Giaquinto

109. “We change the world a little each day with our kindness.” - Tom Giaquinto

110. “ 'Not spoiling' a child means trying to break that child's spirit. ” - Dorothy Rowe

111. “I wake up exhausted it's not morning. It's back to sleep to re-dream me. We're alone and we're happy. But there you are, angry with me” - Tegan Quin

112. “I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live.” - Heather Anastasiu

113. “Psalm 37:44 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.” - LaNina King

114. “... If the dead can come back to this earth and move unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest night—amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest hours—always, always; and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath; or if the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by.” - Paul Hoffman

115. “I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.” - John Green

116. “Happy are those who evolve from within.” - Amit Abraham

117. “I'm happy here, and why change when you love the club and the club's in a really good position right now.” - Frank Lampard

118. “I make positive choices so I can be happy.” - Hayley Williams

119. “One of the simplest ways to stay happy is letting go of the things that makes you sad.” - daily dose

120. “These two things are almost all I want, but unfortunately, neither one is my strong suit. I am very strong on blame, and wish this were one of God's values, but trust, surrender? Letting go, forgiveness? Maybe just after a period of prayer, but then when the mood passes and real life rears its ugly head again? Not so much. I hate this, the fact that life is usually Chutes and Ladders, with no guaranteed gains.I cannot will myself into having these qualities, so I have to pray for them more often, if I want to be happy. I have to create the habit, just as I had to do with daily writing, and flossing.” - Anne Lamott

121. “She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface” - Diane Chamberlain

122. “...the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep...” - John Geddes

123. “As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.” - Douglas Coupland

124. “I'm sure that's when you really know you are happy - when you wake up wanting to embrace your future, rather than trying to squirm away from your past.” - Peter James

125. “The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.” - Lew Wallace

126. “Most people think love comes from the heart or soul. The heart simple pumps blood, so love can't be created there. Where is the center for what appears to be a persons soul? The brain. And what is created there Jilly? That's right-dopamine. What does dopamine do? creates feelings of love and euphoria. How do we get our brains to create more? Drugs, massage, and or sex. Boil it down and it's all just dopamine. The good news is that you can also get more dopamine pumping through your brain by skiing fast...” - Kaya McLaren

127. “And in this quiet moment, as I close my eyes, spent and sated, I think I'm in the eye of the storm. And in spite of all he's said and what he hasn't said, I don't think I have ever been so happy.” - E.L. James

128. “Although I am smiling and I promise I will be.” - Naresh Sharma

129. “It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself” - Roald Dahl

130. “I didn't think past the first step of anything, that was the key. I drank a Coke and didn't worry about how to recycle the can or about the acid puddling in my belly, acid so powerful it could strip clean a penny. We went to a dumb movie and I didn't worry about the offensive sexism or the lack of minorities in meaningful roles. I didn't even worry about anything that came next. Nothing had consequence, I was living in the moment, and I could feel myself getting shallower and dumber. But also happy.” - Gillian Flynn

131. “when you shoot for the stars, you can't ever look back.” - Brittany Perloff

132. “The power of a smile is such that even drawing a happy face on a piece of paper makes your lips turn up.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

133. “I love you , I love you, I love you, I will say it a million more times if I have to.” - brody campbell

134. “All I know is I want you to be happy, and if I could do anything to give that to you, I would.” - Amy Reed

135. “It is not possible to express the most precious insights, To see all that craves to be seen, To visit even the closest neighbors in the universe, To learn all that needs to be learned, To live without dying, And I am sad about it.But I livedAnd I am happy about that.” - Dejan Stojanovic

136. “When you are happy, you feel the sunshine even inside the fog; when you are unhappy, you feel the fog even in the sunshine.” - Mehmet Murat ildan

137. “Life is a difficult thing to understand. It makes us too much happy and suddenly takes away the happiness. But we should smile in every phase of the life.” - Sahaj Oberoi

138. “You’re going back?” asked Bod. Things that had been immutable were changing. “You’re really leaving? But. You’re my guardian.” “I was you’re guardian. But you are old enough to guard yourself. I have other things to protect.” - Neil Gaiman

139. “If you are happy, don’t analyse your happiness, don’t ask questions and don’t even think about it; just live it to the fullest!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

140. “as a childi supposei was not quitenormal.my happiest times werewheni was left alone inthe house on asaturday.” - Charles Bukowski

141. “Claire, I-Look, my life is one long series of screw-ups and bad decisions, and I know that. I own that. But you...I just want you to be happy. And it cuts me when you're not.""I'm happy with you."She heard the smile in his voice this time. "So what do you really want? A storybook life in Vampireville, with your life on the line every day and a half?""I'm considering it," she said. And she was.” - Rachel Caine

142. “What about thinking of happiness as a right instead than as a gift?” - Rossana Condoleo

143. “Don’t be gloomy. Do not dwell on unkind things. Stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight. Even if you are not happy, put a smile on your face. ‘Accentuate the positive.’ Look a little deeper for the good. Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, with great and strong purpose in your heart. Love life.” - Gordon B. Hinckley