Happy Quotes

At the end of the day, you are in control of your own happiness. Life is going to happen whether you overthink it, overstress it or not. Just experience life and be happy along the way. You can't control everything in your life, but you can control your happiness.

~ Holly Holm

Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.

~ Indira Gandhi

In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness.

~ Gretchen Rubin

I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage.

~ Patrick Dewitt

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

~ Swami Sivananda

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

~ William Butler Yeats

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

~ Saint Augustine

You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel.

~ Jennifer Aniston

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

~ J. D. Salinger

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

~ Joseph Roux

To forget oneself is to be happy.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

~ George Orwell

I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.

~ Iggy Azalea

Happiness is not a luxury. It is a necessity. When we are happy, we are in the best possible place to be good to ourselves and those we love.

~ Suze Orman

While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

~ Nikos Kazantzakis

My beauty ethos? Well, I'd love to tell you it's something like 'less is more,' but honestly, it all starts with happiness. If only someone could bottle that up - when I'm happy, I'm at my most radiant and glowing. It does me better than any product ever could. And I stand by how cheesy and cliched that sounds.

~ Solange Knowles

You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.

~ Shah Rukh Khan

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?

~ Frédéric Chopin

Until you can be happy, you can't facilitate happiness for anybody else.

~ Wendy Raquel Robinson

I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, lost in the moment and forgot the time, whether was conversation, movie, or a game I was playing. That was my definition of happiness. And I was least happy when I was all over the place, distracted and restless.

~ Pico Iyer

Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.

~ Luise Rainer

A lot of money with the wrong career is not going to make you happy. If you have money without happiness, it doesn't mean anything. It's all about happiness.

~ Ellen Degeneres

The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself... One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence, honor, and happiness of the future generations.

~ Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body.

~ Douglas Fairbanks

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

~ William Ralph Inge

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

~ Immanuel Kant

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

~ Taylor Swift

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

~ Ernie Banks

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.

~ William S. Burroughs

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.

~ Mary Oliver

I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

~ Parker Palmer

Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good and always a choice... We need to make the choice to be happy in a particular situation, just as it is, and at a given moment.

~ Alexandra Stoddard

Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!

~ Frederick William Faber

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

~ Julia Roberts

When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.

~ Orhan Pamuk

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.

~ Mary Oliver

I think a lot of people think I'm either unintelligent because I'm a very happy person and I have a lot of energy or that it's a fake happiness, like fake energy. I completely understand that because it's a lot to handle, and I am a very emotional human being.

~ Dove Cameron

Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.

~ Deepak Chopra