Top 200 Happiness Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

102. “Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

103. “You are free. You are powerful. You are good. You are love. You have value. You have purpose. All is well.”

— Esther Hicks

104. “Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

105. “Happiness is the overall experience of pleasure and meaning.”

— Tal Ben-Shahar

106. “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 which has been opened for us.”

— Helen Keller

107. “Any fool can be unhappy when things are not okay. But it takes courage to be happy even when things are falling apart.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

108. “If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

109. “Be happy. This is a blessing and an order!”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

110. “Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.”

— Shawn Achor

111. “The best form of worship is to be happy, to be grateful.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

112. “The happiest people spend much time in a state of flow – the state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.”

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

113. “You go into flow when your highest strengths are deployed to meet the highest challenges that come your way.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

114. “There is one aspect of happiness that’s been well studied, and it’s the notion of flow. Ask yourselves, when for you does time stop? When are you truly at home, wanting to be no place else?”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

115. “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

116. “Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.”

— Shawn Achor

117. “If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

118. “The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

119. “Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now.”

— Earl Nightingale

120. “Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

121. “Focusing on the good isn’t just about overcoming our inner grump to see the glass half full. It’s about opening our minds to the ideas and opportunities that will help us be more productive, effective, and successful at work and in life.”

— Shawn Achor

122. “Just as our view of work affects our real experience of it, so too does our view of leisure. If our mindset conceives of free time, hobby time, or family time as non-productive, then we will, in fact, make it a waste of time.”

— Shawn Achor

123. “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”

— Helen Keller

124. “Happiness is the ultimate goal. It is the goal of all other goals.”

— Deepak Chopra

125. “In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don’t worry. Be happy.”

— Bobby McFerrin

126. “My day begins with gratitude and joy. I look forward with enthusiasm to the adventures of the day, knowing that in my life, All is good.”

— Louise Hay

127. “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

128. “Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.”

— Shawn Achor

129. “You are a physical extension of pure positive energy. Therefore, there is nothing more important than that you feel good.”

— Esther Hicks

130. “Think thoughts that make you happy. Do things that make you feel good. Be with people who make you feel good. Eat things that make your body feel good. Go at a pace that makes you feel good.”

— Louise Hay

131. “Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”

— Og Mandino

132. “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

133. “Let’s fight for our happiness by following a daily program of cheerful and constructive thinking.”

— Dale Carnegie

134. “There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

135. “Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.”

— Sri Chinmoy

136. “Happiness is contagious. Be a carrier!!”

— Robert Orben

137. “Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.”

— Nhat Hanh

138. “The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.”

— Buddha

139. “It is a great mitzvah to be happy always.”

— Nachman of Breslov

140. “Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We fail to see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in a belief that happiness should take a particular form.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

141. “Joy is the wild card of life; it supersedes every other formula for success. If you can find a way to create joy, you can rise beyond all external factors. If you can play at whatever you are doing, you are the master of your life.”

— Alan Cohen

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

— Brooke Shields

143. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

— Albert Schweitzer

144. “Your happiness depends upon your very own thoughts. No one else can think your thoughts for you. Deliberately think thoughts of what you want because they’re the thoughts that make you happy.”

— Rhonda Byrne

145. “You’re not RESPONSIBLE for somebody else’s happiness. You’re responsible for your own HAPPINESS.”

— Joel Osteen

146. “We can’t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. For maximum happiness, peace, and contentment, may we choose a positive attitude.”

— Thomas S. Monson

147. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”

— Maya Angelou

148. “Comparison is the thief of joy.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

149. “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.”

— William W. Purkey

150. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”

— Oprah Winfrey