44 happiness quotes that will make you happy all your life

All the time, we need to hear some happiness quotes to remember the sweet moments when we were happy.

Inspirational happiness quotes are gentle words of wisdom that remind us that happiness is a choice. 

Happiness quotes can also inspire us to make decisions and choices every day that make us happy forever.

“Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.”Friedrich Schiller

“Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.”_Unknown

“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.”_Ashley Montagu

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

“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 Keonig

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”_Thich Nhat Hanh

“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”_Eskimo Proverb

“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.”_Mary Stuart

“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”_Seneca

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”_Robert A. Heinlein

“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.”_Dennis Waitley

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

“The only joy in the world is to begin.”_Cesare Pavese

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”_Oscar Wilde

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”_Marthe Truly-Curtin

“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon”_Winnie the Pooh

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”_Herman Cain

“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”_Anthony de Mello

“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your actions.”_Dalai Lama

“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

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”_Aristotle

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”_Marcel Pagnol

“If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.”_Joseph Addison

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”_George Burns

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”_Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us the greatest delight.”_Epictetus

“It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”_L.M. Montgomery

“Happiness is acceptance.”_Unknown

“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”_James M. Barrie

“We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want to suffer. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our happiness.”_Dalai Lama

“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable than risk being happy.”_Dr. Robert Anthony

“The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.”Aesop

“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”_Seneca

“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit, and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”_Albert Einstein

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”_Bertrand Russell

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”_Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

“Happiness is a state of activity.”_Aristotle

“This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because, on the whole, it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”_Douglas Adams

“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you can give.”_Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”_Confucius

“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”_Arthur Schopenhauer