130 Inspiring Happiness Quotes to Transform Your Life

"Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness."

- Buddha

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."

- Dale Carnegie

"If you want to be happy, be."

- Leo Tolstoy

"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

"Happiness doesn't come from achievements, or money, or any sort of treasure. Happiness is a frame of mind, not a destination. It's appreciating what you've got and building relationships with those around you."

- Janette Rallison

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

- Aristotle

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"Don't worry. Be Happy."

- Bobby McFerrin

"Now and then, it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."

- Guillaume Apollinaire

"True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open."

- Rose Lane

"I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."

- Mother Teresa

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

- Mark Twain

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

- Dalai Lama

"The mere sense of living is happiness enough"

- Emily Dickinson

"The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are"

- Goldie Hawn

"We don't laugh because we're happy – we're happy because we laugh."

- William James

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

- John Lennon

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."

- Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes."

- Charles Dickens

"If you want to find happiness, find gratitude."

- Steve Maraboli

"Happiness comes from living as you need to, as you want to. As your inner voice tells you to. Happiness comes from being who you actually are instead of who you think you are supposed to be."

- Shonda Rhimes

"If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows like a shadow."

- Buddha

"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

"Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success."

- Herman Cain

"Very little is needed to make a happy life. It is all within YOURSELF in your way of thinking."

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Dalai Lama

"Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."

- George Sand

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

- Anne Frank

"Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them."

- Steve Maraboli

"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."

- Mildred Barthel

"Be happy for what you have, while working for what you want."

- Hellen Keller

"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

"Whoever is happy will make others happy."

- Anne Frank

"Never regret anything that made you smile."

- Mark Twain

"Life is 10% what happens to you, 90% how you react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"Life is a journey to be experienced, not a problem to be solved."

- Pooh

"If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."

- Roald Dahl

"Be happy with what you want. Be excited about what you get"

- Alan Cohen

"Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it."

- Greg Anderson

"The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely."

- Louisa May Alcott

"It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy."

- Lucille Ball

"If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine."

- Morris West

"We are all happy if we but knew it."

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"You have to be willing to get happy about nothing."

- Andy Warhol

"The Constitution only guarantees you the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."

- Johann Wolfang von Goethe

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"

- Albert Einstein

"Happiness is a habit – cultivate it."

- Elbert Hubbard

"To live happily is an inward power of the soul."

- Aristotle

"My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy."

- Holly Ketchel

"Being happy never goes out of style."

- Lilly Pulitzer

"If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway."

- Mother Theresa

"The greatest happiness of life is the convocation that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, love in spite of ourselves."

- Victor Hugo

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Happiness? That's nothing more than good health and a poor memory."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens."

- Douglas Jerrold

"The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others."

- Ayad Akhtar

"Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it."

- Confucius

"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."

- William James

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling, enduring, and accomplishing."

- George Sheehan

"A happy soul is the best shield for a cruel world."

- Atticus

"Happiness is a form of courage."

- Holbrook Jackson

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

- Confucius

"She remembered who she was and the game changed."

- Lalah Delia

"The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere."

- Mencius

"If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years."

- Bertrand Russell

"Some people cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go."

- Oscar Wilde

"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."

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

"There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path."

"Happiness is the best makeup."

"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."

"Some days, you just have to create your own sunshine."

"How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now."

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

"Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness."

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

"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."

"Happiness held is the seed. Happiness shared is the flower."

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."

"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it."

"Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination."

"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

"Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you."

"Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object."

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy."

"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."

"Happiness is only real when shared."

"Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."

"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."