Happiness Quotes for an Inspirational Life

Happiness is not about what is going on around you, but rather what is happening inside you. So read these wonderful quotes and be as happy as you can be.

1. “Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

2. “Being happy never goes out of style.” – Lilly Pulitzer

3. “The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.” – Woody Allen

4. “If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” – Roald Dahl

5. “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

6. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

7. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi

8. “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. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.” – Carl Jung

9. “It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.” – Dale Carnegie

10. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” – Dalai Lama

11. “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha

12. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

13. “A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?” – Albert Einstein

14. “The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” – James M. Barrie

15. “It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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