Top 40 Being Happy Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Being happy never goes out of style.”

— Lilly Pulitzer

2. “A negative mind will never give you a positive life.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

3. “Don’t find a reason to smile. Find a way.”

— Rita Zahara

4. “What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”

— John Lubbock

5. “A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

6. “There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.”

— Billy Connolly

7. “If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”

— Richard Bach

8. “Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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9. “People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you’re going to lose. You’re just going to. Even if you get the money, you’re not going to be happy.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

10. “Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.”

— Alice Walker

11. “At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

12. “Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.”

— Venus Williams

13. “If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than most people.”

— Leonardo DiCaprio

14. “To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.”

— Albert Camus

15. “You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”

— Epicurus

16. “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”

— Nhat Hanh

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17. “Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.”

— R.A. Salvatore

18. “It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.”

— Jane Fonda

19. “Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.”

— Doug Larson

20. “Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window – or break down a door.”

— Brooke Shields

21. “Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.”

— Jane Austen

22. “If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.”

— Elbert Hubbard

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23. “The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”

— James M. Barrie

24. “Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.”

— C.G. Jung

25. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”

— Epictetus

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26. “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

27. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life, to be happy. It’s all that matters.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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28. “People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

29. “There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.”

— Doug Larson

30. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”

— Oscar Wilde

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31. “I’m happy being myself, which I’ve never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn’t have those things in mine.”

— Angelina Jolie

32. “We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”

— Anne Frank

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33. “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”

— C.G. Jung

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34. “Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

— H. L. Mencken

35. “That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!”

— Bill Watterson

36. “Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”

— Golda Meir

37. “We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.”

— Immanuel Kant

38. “Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.”

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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40. “You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.”

— Slavoj Žižek