Top 55 Happy Quotes

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Are you feeling down. Don’t worry, we are here to help. Check out the top 55 happy quotes to help lift up your spirits.

#55 – 50. Happy Quotes

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

54. “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien

53. “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

52. The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. Robert Louis Stevenson

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

50. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.” ― Audrey Hepburn

#49 – 40. Happy Quotes

49. “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” ― Tom Bodett

48. To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. Albert Camus

47. The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are. Goldie Hawn

46. “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

45. The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. Mark Twain

44. We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. Anne Frank

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

42. One of the biggest challenges in trying to be happy right now isn’t that we don’t know how to be happy. It’s mostly that we just don’t do it. We don’t make the time for happiness, for peace, and for overall joy in our life. Kumar Anupam

41. Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want. Alan Cohen

40. “It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

#39 – 30. Happy Quotes

39. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

38. “It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

37. “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.” ― Mark Twain

36. The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.   Woody Allen

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

34. Be believing, be happy, don’t get discouraged. Things will work out. Gordon B. Hinckley

33. 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

32. One of the simplest ways to stay happy is by letting go of the things that make you sad. Tinku Razoria

31. “You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes”.” ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

30. Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy. Elizabeth Scott

#29 – 20. Happy Quotes

29. Happiness is not defined by any circumstance, condition, or person. You need not tie your happiness to anything. The choice to be happy is always yours to make. Make that choice and cultivate a happy spirit. Dr Anil Kr Sinha

28. If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. Andrew Carnegie

27. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” ― Dalai Lama XIV

26. “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” ― Albert Camus

25. “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer

24. Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln

23. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ― Marcel Proust

22. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

21. Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today. James Dean

20. If you want to be happy, be. Leo Tolstoy

#19 – 10. Happy Quotes

19. Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. Cynthia Nelms

18. The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. Henry Ward Beecher

17. Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it. Groucho Marx

16. “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” ― Abraham Lincoln

15. “There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

14. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” ― Dr. Seuss

13. “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” ― John Lennon

12. “Happiness is a warm puppy.” ― Charles M. Schulz

11. My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don’t use special creams or treatments – I’ll use a little bit of everything. It’s a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret. Tina Turner

10. Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness. Frank Tyger

#9 – 1. Happy Quotes

9. Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. Anne Frank

8. You can never be really happy if you keep holding to those bad memories which makes you sad. Anurag Prakash

7. “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.” ― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

6. If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton

5. “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” ― Gabriel García Márquez

4. Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Denis Waitley

3. Happy is entirely up to you and always has been. Janette Rallison

2. “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

1.“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ideas for the top 55 happy quotes were taken from the following sources.^[1]goodreads – Happiness Quotes^[2]Wise Old Sayings – Being Happy Sayings and Quotes