32 Best Happiness Quotes To Make Your Day

Happiness is something we all desire, but hardly anyone knows what happiness comes from.
Stop reading for a while and give a thought on “what exactly gives you happiness.”

Anyone?

Here, we have compiled some of the rejuvenating thoughts on happiness from some of the greatest authors, philosophers of all time. The list is in no way exclusive, feel free to add more in the comment section.

#1:

If You Want to Be Happy, Be

― Leo Tolstoy

#2:

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: 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

#3:

A happy life is one spent in learning, yearning and earning.

― Lillian Gish

#4:

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

― Andrew Carnegie

#5:

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

― Goldie Hawn

#6:

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

― Ayn Rand

#7:

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

#8:

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human—in not having to be just happy or just sad—in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.

― C. JoyBell

#9:

Dance. Smile. Giggle. Marvel. TRUST. HOPE. LOVE. WISH. BELIEVE. Most of all, enjoy every moment of the journey, and appreciate where you are at this moment instead of always focusing on how far you have to go.

― Mandy Hale

#10:

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

― Eric Hoffer

#11:

Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.

― Hazelmarie Elliott

#12:

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

― Charlotte Brontë

#13:

People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat – that’s the only moral they know.

― Dany Laferrière

#14:

Happiness is always the serendipitous result of looking for something else.

― Dr. Idel Dreimer

#15:

Ups and downs. Victories and defeats. Sadness and happiness. That’s the best kind of life.

― Maxime Lagacé

#16:

Happiness is the default state. It’s what’s there when you remove the sense that something is missing in life.

― Naval Ravikant

#17:

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

― Eleanor Roosevelt

#18:

Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times; if only one remembers to turn on the light.

― J.K Rowling

#19:

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

― J. R. R. Tolkien

#20:

I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

― Hunter S Thompson

#21:

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

― Ernest Hemingway

#22:

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

― Marcel Proust

#23:

Happiness (is) only real when shared.

― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

#24:

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

― Hunter S. Thompson

#25:

Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

― Guillaume Apollinaire

#26:

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

― Gautama Buddha,

#27:

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

― Tom Bodett

#28:

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

#29:

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.

― Dalai Lama

#30:

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

― Marcel Pagnol

#31:

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

― Albert Einstein

#32:

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

― Charles Bukowski

That’s all we have for today. Thanks a lot for tuning in to HappinessDhaba. Do let me know your views on these in the comment section.
Signing off with my favorite words.