Top 133 Happiness Quotes

Happiness is less a destination than a practice. The quotes in this collection point to where it actually comes from (small actions, presence, kindness, and a mind at peace), rather than where we usually go looking for it.

Run often. Run long. But never outrun your joy of running.
Julie Lonneman
Julie Lonneman
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The joy of dressing is an art.
John Galliano
John Galliano
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Ultimately, meditation can allow us to have happiness independent of conditions and that is one heck of an awesome claim.
Shinzen Young
Shinzen Young
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You know they say money can't buy happiness. Give me 50 bucks and watch me smile.
Buddy Hargrove
Buddy Hargrove
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Content is fire. Social media is gasoline.
Ryan Kahn
Ryan Kahn
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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank
Anne Frank
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Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
Jordan Gardner
Jordan Gardner
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It feels so good to be happy.
Rita James
Rita James
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I'm always smiling and happy.
Brandy Norwood
Brandy Norwood
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Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.
songtsen
songtsen
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You need nothing to be happy – you need something to be sad.
Mooji
Mooji
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When you have to work, work with a smile.
Kapil Dev
Kapil Dev
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If you laugh a lot when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places.
Andrew Mason
Andrew Mason
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You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder
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Your eyes smile peace.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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When people doubt your abilities, the greatest joy on earth is making them eat their words.
Earthy Vengeance
Earthy Vengeance
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Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.
Mary Ann Shaffer
Mary Ann Shaffer
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They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.
Joe Monkhouse
Joe Monkhouse
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It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found.
D.W. Winnicott
D.W. Winnicott
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Smile. Your eyes sparkle when you do.
Coco J. Ginger
Coco J. Ginger
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Ask often, be content of little, reward always.
Nuno Oliveira
Nuno Oliveira
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Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.
Olga Kurilenko
Olga Kurilenko
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
Henri J.M. Nouwen
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Happiness is your own responsibility.
Jennifer Garner
Jennifer Garner
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A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
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Weeping may endure for a night, But joy comes in the morning. - PSALM 30:5 NKJV.
Unknown
Unknown
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Don't ever put your happiness in someone else's hands. They'll drop it. They'll drop it every time.
Christopher Poindexter
Christopher Poindexter
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There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
Vicki Baum
Vicki Baum
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When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.
Henry Twells
Henry Twells
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Do what makes you happy. And when it doesn't make you happy anymore, make a change - without fear.
Dexra Mastery
Dexra Mastery
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Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.
Joseph Pilates
Joseph Pilates
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Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.
Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn
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Listen, smile, agree, then do whatever you were going to do anyway.
Robert Downey Jr.
Robert Downey Jr.
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If you can joyfully do whatever is needed in a given situation, this is freedom.
Sadhguru
Sadhguru
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
John Keats
John Keats
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
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There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult
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