Being happy is one of the most important things in life, so it should prioritize everyone. But often, people are not satisfied because they don’t know what they want. They lack knowledge and understanding of how to make themselves comfortable. Whether you are at a low point of your life or just feeling down in the dumps, there is always a way to have an uplifting moment. You have to find it!
One way is to track your happiness levels through surveys and other methods such as social media data. To better understand the different approaches taken so far to determine the most effective strategies for improving one’s well-being, it may be best to review some of the literature on happiness.
The most important thing is to find happiness, and when you’re in a challenging moment, it can be hard to find a source of peace. But these quotes are a reminder that there is always more than one way to happiness – and that’s the beauty of life.
Here are 56 quotes about being happy to make your day brighter
1. “Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.” ~ Rabbi Hyman Schachtel
2. “Everything is a gift of the universe–even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.” ~ Ken Keyes Jr.
3. “Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it’s greedy or loving.” ~ Dan Millman
4. “We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.” ~ William James
5. “Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.” ~ Alan Cohen
6. “Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. “Being happy is something that each of us determines, it is not something that we find outside of yourself, it is within us and our choice.” ~ Catherine Pulsifer
8. “Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.” ~ Bernard Meltzer
9. “Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” ~ Greg Anderson
10. “There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.” ~ Richard Bach
11. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
12. “You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
13. “Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.” ~ David Allen
14. “The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.” ~ Woody Allen
15. “Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.” ~ Germaine Greer
16. “If being happy is important to you, try this: instead of regretting all you lack, celebrate all you’ve got.” ~ Brian Vaszily
17. “Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.” ~ Frank Tyger
18. “Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.” ~ Peter Hagerty
19. “It’s not my job to make you happy. It’s your job to learn that only those who quit selfishly seeking their own happiness find it.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich
20. “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”― Anne Frank
21. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” ~ Dale Carnegie
22. “True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” ~ Helen Keller
23. “Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.” ~ Betty Smith
24. “Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” ~ Margaret Lee Runbeck
25. “The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.” ~ Buddha
26. “Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.” ~ Ariana Grande
27. “Being happy in your skin that’s what it’s all about.” ~ Koo Stark
28. “If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.” ~ Lao Tzu
29. “I enjoyed my life when I had nothing… and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.” ~ Joey Ramone
30. “We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.” ~ Lester Levinson
31. “Happiness is a deep sense of flourishing, not a mere pleasurable feeling or fleeting emotion but an optimal state of being.” ~ Matthieu Ricard
32. “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” ~ Andrew Carnegie
33. “We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill
34. “Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are.” ~ Chinese Proverb
35. “There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts and then acting on them.” ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer
36. “The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of every day.” ~ Anonymous
37. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
38. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” ~ Denis Waitley
39. “If you start to think the problem is ‘out there,’ stop yourself. That thought is the problem.” ~ Stephen Covey
40. “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
41. “Anything in life that we don’t accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.” ~ Shakti Gawain
42. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” ~ Helen Keller
43. “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” ~ James Dean
44. “We forge the chains we wear in life.” ~ Charles Dickens
45. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” ~ Dalai Lama
46. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” ~ Dalai Lama
47. “The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.” ~ William Ralph Inge
48. “Do not forget to hope and happy be.” ~ John McLeod
49. “Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.” ~ Ayn Rand
50. “Happy is entirely up to you and always has been.”― Janette Rallison
51. “Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.” ~ William Adams
52. “We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.” ~ William James
53. “Once you do something you love, you never have to work again.” ~ Willie Hill
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