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What does it mean to be happy? How important is it to be happy? What makes us happy? We are all involved in the pursuit of happiness and it can mean something different to each of us. Here is a large collection of happy quotes that we think you will enjoy. Our hope is that some will speak to you and add some joy to your day! Please share widely and spread the happy!

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quote by Vicki Baum: There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. with background image:

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

--Vicki Baum
quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself. with background image:

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson
quote by Cicero: Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. with background image:

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

--Cicero
quote by Deepak Chopra: The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness. with background image:

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

--Deepak Chopra
quote by J. Donald Walters: Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than b… with background image:

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

--J. Donald Walters
quote by Jane Porter: Happiness is not perfected until it is shared. with background image:

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

--Jane Porter
quote by P. J. O'Rourke: There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have a… with background image: photo of author P. J. O'Rourke with quote: There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe...

There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.

--P. J. O'Rourke
quote by John Heywood: Better to be happy than wise. with background image:

Better to be happy than wise.

--John Heywood
quote by Paul Orfalea: Happy wife, happy life. with background image:

Happy wife, happy life.

--Paul Orfalea
quote by Ariana Grande: 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. with background image:

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
quote by Cesare Pavese: The only joy in the world is to begin. with background image:

The only joy in the world is to begin.

--Cesare Pavese
quote by Booth Tarkington: Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. with background image:

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

--Booth Tarkington
quote by Abraham Lincoln: Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. with background image:

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

--Abraham Lincoln
quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky: We are all happy if we but knew it. with background image:

We are all happy if we but knew it.

--Fyodor Dostoevsky
quote by Stephen Richards: To be happy, make others happy. with background image:

To be happy, make others happy.

--Stephen Richards
quote by Mason Cooley: Do not wait for a reason to be happy. with background image:

Do not wait for a reason to be happy.

--Mason Cooley
quote by Meher Baba: Don't Worry Be Happy. with background image:

Don't Worry Be Happy.

--Meher Baba
quote by James Oppenheim: The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. with background image:

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

--James Oppenheim
quote by Tina Turner: Sometimes you have to let everything go -- purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything -- whatever is bringing you down -- get rid of … with background image:

Sometimes you have to let everything go -- purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything -- whatever is bringing you down -- get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

--Tina Turner
quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt: Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. with background image:

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

--Franklin D. Roosevelt
quote by Ezra Taft Benson: The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to… with background image:

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

--Ezra Taft Benson
quote by Gerald Jampolsky: How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now. with background image:

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is not now.

--Gerald Jampolsky
quote by Robert Breault: Be happy, and a reason will come along. with background image:

Be happy, and a reason will come along.

--Robert Breault
quote by C. S. Lewis: Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose. with background image: photo of author C. S. Lewis with quote: Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose....

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

--C. S. Lewis
quote by Joel Osteen: Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You're in complete control of your happiness. with background image:

Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You're in complete control of your happiness.

--Joel Osteen
quote by Helen Keller: Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. with background image:

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

--Helen Keller
quote by Art Buchwald: The best things in life aren't things. with background image:

The best things in life aren't things.

--Art Buchwald
quote by Alyson Noel: You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. with background image:

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.

--Alyson Noel
quote by Milton H. Erickson: Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy. with background image:

Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.

--Milton H. Erickson
quote by Roy T. Bennett: You are in charge of your own happiness; you don't need to wait for other people's permission to be happy. with background image:

You are in charge of your own happiness; you don't need to wait for other people's permission to be happy.

--Roy T. Bennett
quote by Roy T. Bennett: Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don't take control of yourself and your own … with background image: photo of author Roy T. Bennett with quote: Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don't...

Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don't take control of yourself and your own life, someone else is bound to try.

--Roy T. Bennett


quote by Roy T. Bennett: Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude. with background image:

Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.

--Roy T. Bennett
quote by Nikos Kazantzakis: I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: 
a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of th… with background image:

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness:
a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

--Nikos Kazantzakis
quote by George Washington Burnap: The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. with background image:

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

--George Washington Burnap
quote by Alexandre Dumas: I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. with background image:

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

--Alexandre Dumas
quote by Haruki Murakami: It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story. with background image:

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

--Haruki Murakami
quote by J. Petit Senn: Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it. with background image:

Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.

--J. Petit Senn

quote by Mildred Barthel: Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. with background image:

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

--Mildred Barthel
quote by Arthur Schopenhauer: It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. with background image:

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

--Arthur Schopenhauer
quote by Mother Teresa: If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. with background image:

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

--Mother Teresa
quote by Chinese Proverb: One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows. with background image:

One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows.

--Chinese Proverb
quote by Mark Twain: Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. with background image:

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

--Mark Twain
quote by Henrik Ibsen: It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life. with background image:

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life.

--Henrik Ibsen
quote by Frank Tyger: Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness. with background image:

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

--Frank Tyger
quote by Naval Ravikant: Happiness comes from peace. Peace comes from indifference. with background image: photo of author Naval Ravikant with quote: Happiness comes from peace. Peace comes from indifference....

Happiness comes from peace. Peace comes from indifference.

--Naval Ravikant
quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: No medicine cures what happiness cannot. with background image:

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

--Gabriel Garcia Marquez
quote by Roy T. Bennett: Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever … with background image: photo of author Roy T. Bennett with quote: Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a...

Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

--Roy T. Bennett
quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne: Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. with background image:

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

--Nathaniel Hawthorne
quote by Aristotle: Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. with background image:

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

--Aristotle
quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment. with background image:

The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment.

--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
quote by Richard Branson: It's the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness. with background image:

It's the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness.

--Richard Branson
quote by Norm Papernick: Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. with background image:

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

--Norm Papernick
quote by Mary Wilson Little: Happiness is a well-balanced combination of love, labour, and luck. with background image:

Happiness is a well-balanced combination of love, labour, and luck.

--Mary Wilson Little
quote by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. with background image:

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Longer Version:

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.


quote by Jonathan Safran Foer: You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. with background image:

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

--Jonathan Safran Foer
quote by J. M. Reinoso: Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy. with background image:

Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy.

--J.M. Reinoso
quote by Holbrook Jackson: Happiness is a form of courage. with background image:

Happiness is a form of courage.

--Holbrook Jackson
quote by Gretta Brooker Palmer: Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. with background image:

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.

--Gretta Brooker Palmer
quote by Andrew Delbanco: As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themsel… with background image:

As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.

--Andrew Delbanco
quote by William Saroyan: The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. with background image:

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

--William Saroyan
quote by Alain de Botton: Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more i… with background image: photo of author Alain de Botton with quote: Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dep...

Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

--Alain de Botton
quote by Thomas Szasz: Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and… with background image:

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

--Thomas Szasz
quote by Andre Maurois: The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. with background image:

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

--Andre Maurois
quote by Thomas Jefferson: I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of tak… with background image: photo of author Thomas Jefferson with quote: I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors ...

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

--Thomas Jefferson

Longer Version:

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
-Thomas Jefferson.


quote by Baltasar Gracian: Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness. with background image:

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

--Baltasar Gracian
quote by Rosalia de Castro: Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream. with background image:

Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.

--Rosalia de Castro
quote by Harry F. Banks: Protect your health. Without it you face a serious handicap for success and happiness. with background image:

Protect your health. Without it you face a serious handicap for success and happiness.

--Harry F. Banks
quote by Zhuang Zhou: Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. with background image: photo of author Zhuang Zhou with quote: Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness....

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

--Zhuang Zhou
quote by Vladimir Putin: I think happiness is love. with background image:

I think happiness is love.

--Vladimir Putin
quote by Yaya DaCosta: Happiness is the bomb cosmetic! When I'm smiling, sometimes I'm giving thanks for all the things I have rather than worrying about the thin… with background image:

Happiness is the bomb cosmetic! When I'm smiling, sometimes I'm giving thanks for all the things I have rather than worrying about the things I don't.

--Yaya DaCosta

quote by Viktor Frankl: To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happ… with background image: photo of author Viktor Frankl with quote: To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is comman...

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'

--Viktor Frankl

Longer Version:

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.


quote by V. S. Pritchett: The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. with background image:

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

--V.S. Pritchett
quote by Victor Hugo: Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. with background image:

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

--Victor Hugo
quote by Victor Hugo: The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. with background image:

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

--Victor Hugo
quote by Vanessa Paradis: I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire. with background image:

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

--Vanessa Paradis
quote by William Beveridge: The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man. with background image:

The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man.

--William Beveridge
quote by William Lyon Phelps: If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it … with background image:

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.

--William Lyon Phelps
quote by William Bennett: Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go… with background image:

Happiness is like a cat, If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you; it will never come. But if you pay not attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.

--William Bennett
quote by William Wilberforce: It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power. with background image:

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

--William Wilberforce

quote by William Morris: The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. with background image:

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

--William Morris
quote by Willa Cather: That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. with background image:

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

--Willa Cather
quote by William Godwin: The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it co… with background image:

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

--William Godwin
quote by William Feather: Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. with background image:

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

--William Feather
quote by William Cowper: Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. with background image:

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

--William Cowper
quote by Wayne Gretzky: Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. with background image:

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

--Wayne Gretzky

quote by Thomas Chandler Haliburton: The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government. with background image:

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

--Thomas Chandler Haliburton
quote by Tyler Perry: Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased with that. It's complete peace for me. with background image:

Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased with that. It's complete peace for me.

--Tyler Perry
quote by Tom Wilson: A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose. with background image:

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

--Tom Wilson
quote by Tony Hawk: You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous. with background image:

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

--Tony Hawk
quote by Tom Hodgkinson: Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness … with background image:

Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness -- or what management types refer to as 'employee satisfaction results' -- might improve.

--Tom Hodgkinson
quote by Tom Brady: Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all ha… with background image:

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

--Tom Brady
quote by Thornton Wilder: When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being al… with background image: photo of author Thornton Wilder with quote: When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery...

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

--Thornton Wilder
quote by Thomas Jefferson: We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable ri… with background image: photo of author Thomas Jefferson with quote: We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by th...

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

--Thomas Jefferson

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