Happiness Quotes

Happiness is not something you find — it is something you create. These quotes from wise minds throughout history reveal the secrets to lasting happiness and help you cultivate joy in your daily life.

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

— Dalai Lama

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

— Dalai Lama

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

— Mahatma Gandhi

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy — it is all that matters."

— Audrey Hepburn

"Happiness is not a destination, it is a way of life."

— Burton Hills

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

— Marcus Aurelius

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."

— John Lennon

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

— Marcus Aurelius

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you did not know you left open."

— John Barrymore

"The only joy in the world is to begin."

— Cesare Pavese

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."

— Omar Khayyam

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

— Aristotle

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."

— Anne Frank

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

— Abraham Lincoln

"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day."

— Henri Nouwen

"Happiness is a warm puppy."

— Charles M. Schulz

"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."

— James M. Barrie

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

— Aristotle

"If you want to be happy, be."

— Leo Tolstoy

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