40 Happiness Quotes: The Best Quotes to Cheer You Up!

 

For every single person on this Earth, happiness can mean something different. For one person happiness is about financial success, another equates happiness with love, and for someone else healthiness means happiness. For many people, happiness is simply a positive coincidence that leads to something unexpected and pleasant. For more inspiration check out Funny Motivational Quotes and Sport Motivational Quotes! 

 

The Best Quotes About Happiness

Luckily, this subject has fascinated many thinkers, artists, writers and scientists from time immemorial. Each of them has their own view and opinion of the meaning of happiness and how to attain this sought-after state. Read the best quotes about happiness, get inspired and go for it.

 

"Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor and Philosopher (121-180)

 

"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.”

Epictetos, Greek philosopher and stoic (55 - 135)

 

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”

Marcel Proust, French Writer(1871 –1922)

 

"Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.”

Honoré De Balzac, French writer (1799 - 1850)

 

John Lennon, British musician (1940-1980)

 

“Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.”

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor and Philosopher (121-180)

 

"Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you."

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian Philosopher (1917 – 2008) 

 

“Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.”

Marilyn Monroe, American actress (1926 - 1962)

 

"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Novelist (1804 - 1864)

 

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."

Voltaire, French writer (1694 - 1778)

 

"It is most important to have a love, to be merciful, happy, and self-reliant."

Edith Piaf, French Chancery (1915 - 1963)

 

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”

Omar Khayyam, Iranian astronomer and poet (1048-1131)

 

"The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage."

Thucydides, Greek Historian (460 BC - 395 BC)

 

Groucho Marx, American comedian (1890 - 1977)

 

"Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

Aristotle, Greek philosopher (384 BC - 322 BC)

 

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”

Albert Camus, French writer and philosopher (1913-1960)

 

"Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know."

Richard Bach, American writer (1936 - present)

 

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."

Agnes Repplier, American essayist (1855 - 1950)

 

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.”

Audrey Hepburn, British actress (1929 - 1993)

 

"The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good."

Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)

 

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

Albert Camus, French writer and philosopher (1913-1960)

 

Dalai Lama, Tibetan Leader (1935 - present) 

 

"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.”

William E. Gladstone, British politician (1809-1988)

 

"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."

John Lennon, British musician (1940 - 1980)

 

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian thinker and politician (1869-1948)

 

"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it."

Bernard Meltzer, American radio moderator (1916 - 1998)

 

"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness."

Seneca, a Roman philosopher and statesman (4 pnl - 65 AD)

 

"It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream."

Benjamin Mays, American minister and activist (1894-1984)

 

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, prose and poet (1854 - 1900)

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American writer (1803 - 1882)

 

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."

Charles Spurgeon, British priest (1834 - 1892)

 

"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."

Tom Bodett, American author (1955 - present)

 

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”

Frederick Koenig (1774-1833)

 

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

Abraham Lincoln, US President (1809 - 1865)

 

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer."

Mark Twain, American writer (1835-1910)

 

"Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness."

Ayn Rand, American writer (1905 - 1982)

 

"The more one judges, the less one loves."

Honoré de Balzac, French writer (1799 - 1850)

 

Sam Rosen, American sports commentator (1947 - present)

 

"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."

Rita Mae Brown, American writer (1944 - present)

 

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."

James Dean, American actor (1931 - 1955)

 

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