Inspirational quotes about happiness

Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.
- Dalai Lama

Happiness is an inside job. Don't assign anyone else that much power over your life.

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. Theother is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give them yours.
- Zig Ziglar

The secret to success: find something you love to do so much, you can't wait for the sun to rise to do it all over again.
- Chris Gardner

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where they were only walls.
- Joseph Campbell

Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.

Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.
- Oscar Wilde

You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about the future.
- Zig Ziglar

Now is the time to start living the life you always imagined.

At the end of hardship comes happiness.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Dalai Lama

Never slow down for the world, one day it will catch-up with you.

Happiness looks gorgeous on you.

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.
- Steve Maraboli

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Be happy. Be bright. Be you.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

If a person’s basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring.
- Tenzin Gyatso

We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.
- Lester Levinson

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
- Brian Tracy

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

In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.
- Albert Clarke

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
- Ashley Montagu

Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice.
- Naval Ravikant

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde

Laugh, dance, smile, stay a little crazy. Life doesn’t always make sense.
- Maxime Lagacé

The constant happiness is curiosity.
- Alice Munro

There are so many beautiful reasons to be happy.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs--even though checkered by failure--than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
- Leo Tolstoy

Happiness does not have a price tag so smile.

Everything is a gift of the universe--even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.
- Ken Keyes Jr.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, and I’m grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.
- Evangeline Lilly

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

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.
- Maxim Gorky

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
- Jonathan Safran Foer

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
- Chinese proverb

Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
- William Adams

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
- Anton Chekhov

The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
- William Morris

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
- George Bernard Shaw

The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.
- George Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things. Cowards, you notice, are always shrieking to have troublesome people killed.
- George Bernard Shaw

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
- George Bernard Shaw

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
- George Bernard Shaw

Progress is impossible without change, and those who can not change their minds can not change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
- George Bernard Shaw

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.