70 Uplifting And Happy Quotes

In a world that often feels overwhelming, a few words of positivity can make all the difference. Whether you're looking to brighten your own day or spread cheer to someone else, uplifting and happy quotes have an incredible power to inspire and transform our mindset. We've curated a collection of the top 70 quotes that capture the essence of joy, hope, and optimism. Each quote is a little reminder that happiness is not just a destination, but a way of living. So, take a moment to immerse yourself in these pearls of wisdom and let them guide your thoughts and actions, bringing a smile to your face and warmth to your heart.

1. “Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.” - Gordon B. Hinckley

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

3. “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

4. “[Presently, science undergraduates] do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are inept at those turns of phrase or happy analogy which throw a flying bridge across a chasm of misunderstanding and make contact between mind and mind.” - Sir William Bragg

5. “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

6. “I know how syrupy this sounds, how dull, provincial, and possibly whitewashed, but what can I do? Happy childhoods happen” - Marisa de los Santos

7. “Well i am just going to try!" she thought confidently!” - Carollynn Lemky

8. “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

9. “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

10. “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

11. “If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...” - Evelyn Waugh

12. “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

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

14. “People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.” - Ayn Rand

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

16. “Please don't wait until the doctors tell you that you are going to have a baby to begin to take care of it. It is already there. Whatever you are, whatever you do, your baby will get it. Anything you eat, any worries that are on your mind will be for him or her. Can you tell me that you cannot smile? Think of the baby, and smile for him, for her, for the future generations. Please don't tell me that a smile and your sorrow just don't go together. It's your sorrow, but what about your baby? It's not his sorrow, its not her sorrow.” - Thich Nhat Hanh

17. “Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.” - William Nicholson

18. “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

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

20. “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

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

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

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

24. “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

25. “The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.” - Jeff Lindsay

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

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

28. “The devil's happy when the critics run you off.” - Criss Jami

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

30. “But you're dead,' said Harry.'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly.'Then... am I dead too?''Ah,' said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. 'That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.” - J.K. Rowling

31. “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

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

33. “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

34. “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

35. “You can never be happy until you understand why you're doing what you're doing.” - JANET JACKSON

36. “Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...” - Susan Polis Schutz

37. “I love stories with a happy ending,” Inspector Me said.” - Derek Landy

38. “The happy have whole days,and those they choose.The unhappy have but hours,and those they lose.” - Colley Cibber

39. “David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.” - J.M. Barrie

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

41. “Hapi?" I asked."Why, yes, I am happy!" Hapi beamed. "I'm always happy because I'm Hapi! Are you happy?"Zia frowned up at the giant. "Does he have to be so big?"The god laughed. Immediately he shrank down to human size, though the crazy cheerful look on his face was still pretty unnerving."Oh, Setne!" Hapi chuckled and pushed the ghost playfully. "I hate this guy. Absolutely despise him!"Hapi's smile became painfully wide. "I'd love to rip off your arms and legs, Setne. That would be amazing!"Setne ... drifted a little farther away from the smiling god."Oh!" Hapi clapped excitedly. "The world is going to end tomorrow. I forgot!""You'd never get to Memphis without my help. You'd get torn into a million pieces!"He seemed genuinely pleased to share that news.” - Rick Riordan

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

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

44. “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

45. “How to be happy in life? The short and simple answer is to SMILE more often!” - Al Munoz

46. “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

47. “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

48. “Kindness trumps everything. Kind people are magnets for all of the good things in life.” - Tom Giaquinto

49. “Be a good human.” - Tom Giaquinto

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

51. “If you want to be happy, you need to set your mind on happiness.” - Ana Kostovska

52. “. . . you don’t need a happy ending to move onto a happy beginning.” - Krystal McLean

53. “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

54. “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

55. “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

56. “What's the difference?" You ask meThe difference is, a smile touches my lipsWhen I remember both the memory of you entering my lifeAnd the memory of you leaving my life” - Tammy-Louise Wilkins

57. “Don't be sad because it's over. Be happy because you can start over.” - Ria Tumimomor

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

59. “What I see especially among the Navajos and the Zunis and the Hopis is a culture of people who have been smart enough to learn a lesson that we're awfully slow to get... They know that being rich doesn't have any damn thing to do with how much money you've got. It's got to do with are you happy and are you content.” - Rachel Dickinson

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

61. “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

62. “The world around me was oblivious, but for once, I felt absolute” - Rebecah McManus

63. “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

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

65. “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

66. “Man must be happy, as happy as a poor child cheerfully playing with his poor toy!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

67. “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

68. “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

69. “Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.” - Deepak Chopra

70. “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