Happiness is a state of mind. Therefore whenever you’re feeling down, one of the most important things you should do is remind yourself that it’s in your power to boost your mood and change the timeline to a more positive one. Happiness isn’t a destination, but a journey that you’re experiencing every single day. In this article, we have collected 50 happiness quotes that will remind you of what true happiness is.
Here they are 50 happiness quotes to lift your mood and brighten your day!
50 Happiness Quotes
#1
“Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.” – Wayne Dyer
#2
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
#3
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral, which always is as it is. There is the situation or the fact, and here are my thoughts about it. Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, “I am ruined” is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. “I have 50 cents left in my bank account” is a fact. Facing facts is always empowering.” – Eckhart Tolle
#4
“Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.”
#5
“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.” – Dale Carnegie
#6
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” – Epictetus
#7
“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything—anger, anxiety, or possessions—we cannot be free.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
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#8
“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
#9
“Success comes from gaining, happiness comes from giving.” – Jay Shetty
#10
“It’s not what is available or unavailable that determines your level of success and happiness; it’s what you convince yourself is true.” – Wayne Dyer
#11
“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
#12
“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” – Dennis Waitley
#13
“A Sufi mystic who had always remained happy was asked…. For seventy years people had watched him, he had never been found sad. One day they asked him, ‘What is the secret of your happiness?’ He said, ‘There is no secret. Every morning when I wake up, I meditate for five minutes and I say to myself, ‘Listen, now there are two possibilities: you can be miserable, or you can be blissful. Choose.’ And I always choose to be blissful.’
“All alternatives are open. Choose to be blissful. And then there are people who can be blissful even when they are imprisoned, and there are people who remain miserable even when they are living in marble palaces. It all depends on you.” – Osho
#14
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
#15
“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
#16
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Marthe Troly-Curtin
#17
“We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one’s own 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 own happiness.” – Dalai Lama
#18
“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
#19
“Don’t seek happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it.” – Eckhart Tolle
#20
“Happiness has nothing to do with what you have or don’t have. Happiness is related to what you are. However many things you may collect, perhaps they may increase your worries, your troubles, but happiness will not increase because of them. Certainly unhappiness will increase with them, but they have no relation to an increase in your happiness.
“I am not saying that you should renounce things, that you should escape from your home and renounce the marketplace. No, don’t misunderstand my statement. What is, is good. Nothing will happen either by dropping things and escaping from them or by clinging to them. Remain where you are, but begin the search within. Much outer searching has already been done, now go within. Now know the one, in this knowing one attains all. All desires are at once fulfilled.” – Osho
#21
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
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#22
“The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.” – Wayne Dyer
#23
“Don’t be too much concerned about money, because that is the greatest distraction against happiness. And the irony of ironies is that people think they will be happy when they have money. Money has nothing to do with happiness. If you are happy and you have money, you can use it for happiness. If you are unhappy and you have money, you will use that money for more unhappiness. Because money is simply a neutral force.
“I am not against money – remember. Don’t misinterpret me: I am not against money. I am not against anything. Money is a means. If you are happy and you have money, you will become more happy. If you are unhappy and you have money, you will become more unhappy because what will you do with your money? Your money will enhance your pattern, whatsoever it is. If you are miserable and you have power, what will you do with your power? You will poison yourself more with your power, you will become more miserable.” – Osho
#24
“Most people are searching for happiness. They’re looking for it. They’re trying to find it in someone or something outside of themselves. That’s a fundamental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think.” – Wayne Dyer
#25
“If you are really feeling happy, you are feeling happy even if the whole world contradicts you. If the whole world agrees that you are not happy, then too it doesn’t matter. Your happiness is real. It cannot be canceled by anybody’s opinion. But if your happiness is unreal, it can be canceled by anybody. Even a small child can cancel it. You will be constantly looking towards people. You will be smiling, trying to show that you are happy so that they can say, ‘Yes. You are very happy. You look very happy.’” – Osho
#26
“Tantra says be real, be authentic to yourself. Your happiness is not bad; it is good. It is not sin! Only sadness is sin, only to be miserable is sin. To be happy is virtue because a happy person will not create unhappiness for others. Only a happy person can be a ground for others’ happiness.” – Osho
#27
“Happiness has always been an internal phenomenon. The sources of your happiness is inside of you.” – Sadhguru
#28
“People believe themselves to be dependent on what happens for their happiness. They don’t realize that what happens is the most unstable thing in the universe. It changes constantly. They look upon the present moment as either marred by something that has happened and shouldn’t have or as deficient because of something that has not happened but should have. And so they miss the deeper perfection that is inherent in life itself, a perfection that lies beyond what is happening or not happening. Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is untouched by time.” – Eckhart Tolle
#29
”Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.” – Wayne Dyer
#30
“The fact that happiness is associated with relaxation does not mean that it is impossible to be happy in the midst of strenuous effort, for to be truly effective great effort must, as it were, revolve upon a steady unmoving center. The problem before us is how to find such a center of relaxed balance and poise in man’s individual life – a center whose happiness is unshaken by the whirl that goes on around it, which creates happiness because of itself and not because of external events, and this in spite of the fact that it may experience those events in all their aspects and extremes from the highest bliss to the deepest agony.” ― Alan Watts
#31
“You need nothing to be happy.” – Mooji
#32
“Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being?” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
#33
“Let’s not make happiness and success about the size of our homes, but about the size of our hearts; let’s not make it about gratification but gratitude.” – Jay Shetty
#34
“I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I’m not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I’m not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.” – Dalai Lama
#35
“Joy is a natural phenomenon. Misery is your creation.” – Sadhguru
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#36
”Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.” – Denis Waitley
#37
“Be so happy that when others look at you, they become happy too.” – Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#38
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” – Benjamin Disraeli
#39
“A whole new kind of spiritual happiness dawns in us as we realize that dark clouds do not ruin sunny skies… they merely pass through them to help us remember our love of the light.” – Guy Finley
#40
“Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth… Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it.” – John Templeton
#41
“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
#42
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.” – Albert Einstein
#43
”The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.” – James Oppenheim
#44
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” – Charles Spurgeon
#45
“A smile is happiness you’ll find right under your nose.” – Tom Wilson
#46
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” – Jim Rohn
#47
“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” – Gerard Way
#48
“The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.” – Carl Sandburg
#49
“There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.” – Joyce Grenfell
#50
”Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.” – Zig Ziglar
We hope you are inspired and motivated by these happiness quotes as much as we are!