48 Inspiring Quotes On Happiness

In a world that often feels fast-paced and overwhelming, the quest for happiness remains a universal journey. Seeking comfort and wisdom in words can provide a compass to navigate life's complexities. Our curated collection of 48 inspiring quotes on happiness offers a glimpse into the diverse ways people have captured this elusive yet cherished state of being. Whether you're looking for motivation, comfort, or a fresh perspective, these quotes are sure to spark joy and reflection. Dive in and discover the timeless wisdom that might just inspire a new outlook on life.

1. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” - Dalai Lama XIV

2. “The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.” - Carlos Castaneda

3. “To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.” - Julian Barnes

4. “Sharing is caring.” - Asraa Abdelqader

5. “It had seemed like the beginning of happiness, and Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later to realize that it was happiness; that the entire experience lay in a kiss and a walk. The anticipation of dinner and a book. The dinner is by now forgotten; Lessing has been long overshadowed by other writers. What lives undimmed in Clarissa's mind more than three decades later is a kiss at dusk on a patch of dead grass, and a walk around a pond as mosquitoes droned in the darkening air. There is still that singular perfection, and its perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more. Now she knows: That was the moment, right then. There has been no other.” - Michael Cunningham

6. “It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

7. “Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.” - Julian Barnes

8. “Live Today! Do not allow your spirit to be softened of your happiness to be limited by a day you cannot have back or a day that does not yet exist.” - Steve Maraboli

9. “We never realize just how many other lives we can help when their paths cross our own.” - Wil Zeus

10. “Today, just take time to smell the roses, enjoy those little things about your life, your family, spouse, friends, job. Forget about the thorns -the pains and problems they cause you - and enjoy life.” - Bernard Kelvin Clive

11. “No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.” - Dean Koontz

12. “A lifetime of lonely regret or happiness with some pain along the way.” - Melissa Nathan

13. “And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.” - Honoré de Balzac

14. “Don't look to a husband or a child or a friend or your family to make you happy. It is not within their capacity to do so.” - Barbara Barrington Jones

15. “He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.” - Mervyn Peake

16. “Take responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, or you could be disappointed.” - Rodolfo Costa

17. “[Poem: Slates of Grey]Sullen faces like slates of grey—What I’d seen on a walk today.Bodies rushing bodies boltingTime for life a disregarding.Money to make and to grow oldWhat about the hands to hold?Deadlines, projects, people to meetWhat about our own two feet.Sullen faces like slates of grey...What I’d see most anyday.” - Jess C. Scott

18. “Insecurities have the ability to shape and mold our minds to live with everything that’s bad; like crying on the inside, while smiling on the outside…thus creating pain…but, alas, I have the answer; forget about what you thought and enjoy (embrace) what you feel” - Jeremy Aldana

19. “I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.” - Haruki Murakami

20. “Percy wakes me (fourteen)Percy wakes me and I am not ready.He has slept all night under the covers.Now he’s eager for action: a walk, then breakfast.So I hasten up. He is sitting on the kitchen counter Where he is not supposed to be. How wonderful you are, I say. How clever, if you Needed me, To wake me. He thought he would a lecture and deeply His eyes begin to shine.He tumbles onto the couch for more compliments.He squirms and squeals: he has done something That he needed And now he hears that it is okay. I scratch his ears. I turn him over And touch him everywhere. He isWild with the okayness of it. Then we walk, then He has breakfast, and he is happy.This is a poem about Percy.This is a poem about more than Percy.Think about it.” - Mary Oliver

21. “I know money isn't everything. but it certainly is something.” - Thisuri Wanniarachchi

22. “Our greatest happiness comes from the experience of love & compassion.” - Allan Lokos

23. “Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun;Thyself from thine affectionTakest warmth enough, and from thine eyeAll lesser birds will take their jollity.Up, up, fair bride, and callThy stars from out their several boxes, takeThy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and makeThyself a constellation of them all;And by their blazing signifyThat a great princess falls, but doth not die.Be thou a new star, that to us portendsEnds of much wonder; and be thou those ends.” - John Donne

24. “Judgment is a negative frequency.” - Stephen Richards

25. “Learn from your history, but don’t live in it.” - Steve Maraboli

26. “No beating yourself up. That’s not allowed. Be patient with yourself. It took you years to form the bad habits of thought that you no longer want. It will take a littletime to form new and better ones. But I promise you this: Even a slight move in this direction will bring you some peace. The more effort you apply to it, the faster you’ll find your bliss, but you’ll experience rewards immediately.” - Holly Mosier

27. “I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it.” - Emma Goldman

28. “In life, if you want to be happy, choose to be optimistic.” - Lionel Suggs

29. “Sweep the board with Cosmic Ordering Success.” - Stephen Richards

30. “In the beginning man was poor, then along came Cosmic Ordering.” - Stephen Richards

31. “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

32. “-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

33. “Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists.” - Julio Cortazar

34. “I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy.” - Megan Whalen Turner

35. “Unhappiness can be like a virus spreading from one person, to the next person, to the next one and so on. When someone is mean or rude to you, do not let their unhappiness infect your own life. If you are the unhappy one, please quarantine yourself so you do not infect others!” - Jennifer O'Neill

36. “Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.” - Amit Ray

37. “As reason returned to me, memory came with it, and I saw that even on the worst days, when I thought I was utterly and completely miserable, I was nevertheless, and nearly all the time, extremely happy. That gave me something to think about. The discovery was not a pleasant one. It seemed to me that I was losing a great deal. I asked myself, wasn't I sad, hadn't I felt my life breaking up? Yes, that had been true; but each minute, when I stayed without moving in a corner of the room, the cool of the night and the stability of the ground made me breathe and rest on gladness.” - Maurice Blanchot

38. “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

39. “You cannot do what's important now for you if your mind cannot accept what is happening in this present moment.” - John Kuypers

40. “For the Stoics, then, our judgments about the world are all that we can control, but also all that we need to control in order to be happy; tranquility results from replacing our irrational judgments with rational ones” - Oliver Burkeman

41. “Give as you wish to live, it all come's back to you. And that's without exception ...” - Ian Tucker

42. “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

43. “How much longer will you sit back and wait for your dream to spontaneously come true? Too many days, weeks, months, and years have passed! Do not be unresponsive to your own dreams. Now, set a course of action that will lead to bringing your dream into reality.” - Steve Maraboli

44. “You were born to journey in the direction of your purpose. Anything that halts your progress is contrary to your design.” - Steve Maraboli

45. “Give Happiness, Patience, kindness, and Care, and the PAIN goes away.Then only LOVE remains...” - Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

46. “There is no easy or quick plan to happiness, there is no single spot where you can start. Where you are right now is the best place to begin.” - Mark Twain

47. “Decide that life is good and you are special. Decide to enjoy today. Decide that you will live life to the fullest now, no matter what. Trust that you will change what needs changing, but also decide that you're not going to put off enjoying life just because you don't have everything you want now. Steadfastly refuse to let anything steal your joy. Choose to be happy...and you will be.” - Donna Fargo

48. “We were happy. I know I ought to be able to tell you about it, yet I cannot, for while a nightmare will stay with you like hunger, when you awake from a happy dream, you have no memory of it.” - Erik Christian Haugaard