Inspirational Quotes

  • “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”Dalai Lama
  • “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.”Audrey Hepburn
  • “Happiness depends upon ourselves.”Aristotle
  • “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”Mahatma Gandhi
  • “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.”Carl Sandburg
  • “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”Chuck Palahniuk
  • “Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.”Unknown
  • “Happiness is not having what you want. It is appreciating what you have.”Unknown
  • “Happiness is a warm puppy.”Charles M. Schulz
  • “Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”George Orwell
  • “Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything.”Unknown
  • “Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”Margaret Lee Runbeck
  • “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”Jim Rohn
  • “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”Albert Camus
  • “Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.”Unknown
  • “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”George Sand
  • “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”Aristotle
  • “Happiness is an inside job.”William Arthur Ward
  • “Happiness is a state of activity.”Aristotle
  • “The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”William Saroyan
  • “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • “Happiness is a journey, not a destination.”Buddha
  • “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”Thucydides
  • “The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are.”Goldie Hawn
  • “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”Marcus Aurelius
  • “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 only real when shared.”Jon Krakauer
  • “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.”Abraham Lincoln
  • “Happiness is the secret to all beauty; there is no beauty without happiness.”Christian Dior
  • “Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.”Democritus
  • “True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”Seneca
  • “Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.”Aeschylus
  • “The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”William Morris
  • “Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”Socrates
  • “Happiness is not something you experience, it’s something you remember.”Oscar Levant
  • “Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.”Marie Rutkoski
  • “The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”Mark Twain
  • “Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.”Napoleon Hill
  • “Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.”Benjamin Franklin
  • “To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”Bertrand Russell
  • “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”Ernest Hemingway
  • “Happiness is a direction, not a place.”Sydney J. Harris
  • “The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.”Richard Bach
  • “True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.”Ben Jonson
  • “Happiness is the best makeup.”Drew Barrymore
  • “There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.”Lady Blessington
  • “Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”Immanuel Kant
  • “To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.”Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • “Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.”Gretta Palmer
  • “Happiness comes from within.”Unknown
  • “The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are.”Goldie Hawn
  • “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.”Steve Maraboli
  • “Happiness is not the belief that we don’t need to change; it is the realization that we can.”Shawn Achor
  • “Happiness is not what makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy.”David Steindl-Rast
  • “Happiness is a warm gun.”The Beatles
  • “Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.”Aeschylus
  • “Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.”John Lubbock
  • “There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”Seneca
  • “The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.”Robert Brault
  • “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
  • “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.”Steve Maraboli
  • “True contentment is knowing you have enough.”Unknown
  • “Happiness is not what makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy.”David Steindl-Rast
  • “Contentment comes from wanting what you have, not having what you want.”Unknown
  • “To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.”Alan Cohen
  • “There is no way to happiness—happiness is the way.”Thich Nhat Hanh
  • “Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without happiness.”Christian Dior
  • “Happiness is not having what you want. It is appreciating what you have.”Unknown
  • “Happiness is an inside job. Don’t assign anyone else that much power over your life.”Mandy Hale
  • “Happiness is the highest good.”Aristotle
  • “Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.”Elbert Hubbard
  • “Happiness is only real when shared.”Jon Krakauer
  • “Contentment always eludes those who don’t count themselves as blessed for what they already have.”Unknown
  • “Happiness is the highest form of health.”Dalai Lama
  • “Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.”Epictetus
  • “Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.”Douglas William Jerrold
  • “Happiness is the experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”Denis Waitley
  • “Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.”Walt Disney
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