Quotes on Happiness: Find Joy in Every Day

Find joy through our inspiring quotes about happiness. Discover the keys to a fulfilling and joyful life.

Image of Elizabeth Olsen
I get way too much happiness from good food.
- Elizabeth Olsen
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Image of Sandra Bullock
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.'
- Sandra Bullock
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Image of Rajkumar Hirani
For me, cinema is happiness.
- Rajkumar Hirani
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Image of Bhumika Chawla
Happiness, for me, has to be real - life that is made of real conversations, of spending quality time with close friends, walks in nature and woods, praying, feeling real gratitude, reading good books, being able to be in the moment and hearing the sounds of nature.
- Bhumika Chawla
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Image of Henri Matisse
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
- Henri Matisse
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Image of Jacques Yves Cousteau
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
- Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Image of Joan Rivers
People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
- Joan Rivers
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Image of Charles Baudelaire
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
- Charles Baudelaire
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Image of Muhammad Yunus
Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.
- Muhammad Yunus
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Image of Dolley Madison
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
- Dolley Madison
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Image of Jocelyn Wildenstein
All the riches in the world do not come close to the happiness of having children and being a mother.
- Jocelyn Wildenstein
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Image of Mark Manson
Like anything worth doing in life, happiness takes time and patience and consistency.
- Mark Manson
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Image of Jeremy Bentham
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
- Jeremy Bentham
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Image of Tom Waits
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
- Tom Waits
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Image of Bobby Davro
The measure of success is happiness and peace of mind.
- Bobby Davro
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Image of Daphne du Maurier
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
- Daphne du Maurier
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Image of John C. Maxwell
Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.
- John C. Maxwell
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Image of Anthony Hopkins
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
- Anthony Hopkins
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Image of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star.
- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Image of Kareena Kapoor Khan
Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.
- Kareena Kapoor Khan
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Image of Emil Cioran
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
- Emil Cioran
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Image of Kanye West
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
- Kanye West
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Image of Queen Latifah
I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.
- Queen Latifah
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Image of Henry David Thoreau
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Image of Pharrell Williams
It's not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you're grateful, you can find happiness in everything.
- Pharrell Williams
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Image of Aldous Huxley
God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
- Aldous Huxley
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Image of Swami Sivananda
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.
- Swami Sivananda
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Image of Barbara De Angelis
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
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Image of Thomas Huxley
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
- Thomas Huxley
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Image of Tara Stiles
We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds, unpredictable, fleeting, and without responsibility to our desires. Through honest self-work, reflection, and meditation, we begin to string more of these moments together, creating a web-like design of happiness that drapes around our lives.
- Tara Stiles
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Image of Sreenivasan
No amount of money can replace the kind of happiness and satisfaction I derive out of writing.
- Sreenivasan
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Image of Pepa
There is nothing that you can't overcome. So it's never too late for happiness.
- Pepa
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Image of Valerie Bertinelli
Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.
- Valerie Bertinelli
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Image of John Dewey
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
- John Dewey
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Image of Adam Grant
The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.
- Adam Grant
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Image of Margaret Lee Runbeck
Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
- Margaret Lee Runbeck
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Image of Ruth Reichl
The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness.
- Ruth Reichl
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Image of Maria Montessori
Personal health is related to self-control and to the worship of life in all its natural beauty - self-control bringing with it happiness, renewed youth, and long life.
- Maria Montessori
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Image of Winifred Holtby
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
- Winifred Holtby
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Image of Dionne Warwick
Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.
- Dionne Warwick
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Image of William S. Burroughs
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
- William S. Burroughs
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Image of Lil Xan
It gets better: there's a light at the end of the tunnel. It may take one day, it may take ten years. But one day, you will find happiness if you manifest it. Put that energy out, and it'll come back.
- Lil Xan
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Image of Gary Larson
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
- Gary Larson
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Image of John Gunther
All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
- John Gunther
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Image of Freya Stark
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
- Freya Stark
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Image of John Lubbock
Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.
- John Lubbock
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Image of Hafez
Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
- Hafez
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Image of Amber Riley
As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.
- Amber Riley
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Image of Eric Hoffer
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
- Eric Hoffer
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Image of Al Green
The music is the message, the message is the music. So that's my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me - a little ministry called love and happiness.
- Al Green
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