Now more than ever, doing things that bring us joy should be encouraged. Whether it’s spending time with friends, taking on a new hobby, or even reading happy quotes, happiness is bound to ensue.
There are thousands if not millions of happiness quotes but we’ve put together a list of 53 of some of the best happiness quotes around. Enjoy!
1) Let the happy quotes begin!
!["Happiness is a warm puppy." - Charles M. Schulz](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-01.jpg?resize=720%2C481&ssl=1)
“Happiness is a warm puppy.” – Charles M. Schulz
2)
!["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](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-02.jpg?resize=720%2C365&ssl=1)
“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
3) Happy quotes by Abraham Lincoln.
!["Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be." - Abraham Lincoln](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-03.jpg?resize=720%2C378&ssl=1)
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
4)
![53 Happy Quotes - "Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed." - Unknown](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-04.jpg?resize=720%2C751&ssl=1)
“Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.” – Unknown
5) And happy postive quotes never go out of style either!
!["Being happy never goes out of style." - Lilly Pulitzer](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-05.jpg?resize=720%2C878&ssl=1)
“Being happy never goes out of style.” – Lilly Pulitzer
6)
!["Happiness is the best makeup." - Drew Barrymore](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-06.jpg?resize=720%2C720&ssl=1)
“Happiness is the best makeup.” – Drew Barrymore
7)
!["You can only have bliss if you don’t chase it." - Henepola Gunaratana](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-07.jpg?resize=720%2C720&ssl=1)
“You can only have bliss if you don’t chase it.” – Henepola Gunaratana
8)
!["You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness." - Jonathan Safran Foer](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-08.jpg?resize=720%2C720&ssl=1)
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
9)
![53 Happy Quotes - "Happiness comes from peace. Peace comes from indifference." - Naval Ravikant](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-09.jpg?resize=720%2C405&ssl=1)
“Happiness comes from peace. Peace comes from indifference.” – Naval Ravikant
10) Positive happy quotes for a life full of happiness.
!["Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness." - Steve Maraboli](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-10.jpg?resize=720%2C720&ssl=1)
“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” – Steve Maraboli
11)
!["Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on." - Carrie Underwood](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-11.jpg?resize=720%2C720&ssl=1)
“Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.” – Carrie Underwood
12)
!["Don't rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can't love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as you see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different." - Stacey Charter](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-12.jpg?resize=720%2C899&ssl=1)
“Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as you see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.” – Stacey Charter
13) Embrace happy quotes…
!["Embrace the glorious mess that you are." - Elizabeth Gilbert](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-13.jpg?resize=720%2C397&ssl=1)
“Embrace the glorious mess that you are.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
14)
!["Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-14.jpg?resize=720%2C510&ssl=1)
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
15) Happy quotes for a happy life…
!["Find ecstasy in life; The mere sense of living is joy enough." - Emily Dickinson](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-15.jpg?resize=720%2C878&ssl=1)
“Find ecstasy in life; The mere sense of living is joy enough.” – Emily Dickinson
16)
!["For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." - Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-16.jpg?resize=720%2C378&ssl=1)
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
17)
!["Happiness is a function of accepting what is. Love is a function of communication. Health is a function of participation. Self-expression is a function of responsibility." - Werner Erhard](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-17.jpg?resize=720%2C338&ssl=1)
“Happiness is a function of accepting what is. Love is a function of communication. Health is a function of participation. Self-expression is a function of responsibility.” – Werner Erhard
18)
!["Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." - Ernest Hemingway](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-18.jpg?resize=720%2C360&ssl=1)
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” – Ernest Hemingway
- Hardcover Book
- AA (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 05/01/1986 (Publication Date) - Charles Scribner's Sons (Publisher)
19) Happy Quotes by Marcus Aurelius
!["He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe." - Marcus Aurelius](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-19.jpg?resize=720%2C540&ssl=1)
“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.” – Marcus Aurelius
20) Start with positive happy quotes.
!["It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy." - Lucille Ball](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-20.jpg?resize=720%2C720&ssl=1)
“It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” – Lucille Ball
21)
!["If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present." - Roy T. Bennett](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-21.jpg?resize=720%2C720&ssl=1)
“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.” – Roy T. Bennett
22) Happy quotes in perfect harmony.
!["Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-22.jpg?resize=720%2C377&ssl=1)
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
23)
!["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 it." - Dale Carnegie](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-23.jpg?resize=720%2C360&ssl=1)
“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 it.” – Dale Carnegie
24)
!["It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace." - Chuck Palahniuk](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-24.jpg?resize=720%2C720&ssl=1)
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” – Chuck Palahniuk
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- Hardcover Book
- Palahniuk, Chuck (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 272 Pages - 08/26/2003 (Publication Date) - Doubleday (Publisher)
25) Happy positive quotes to cherish friends.
!["Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-25.jpg?resize=720%2C900&ssl=1)
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
26)
!["It's the little things in life."](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-26.jpg?resize=720%2C498&ssl=1)
“It’s the little things in life.”
27)
!["Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." - Robert A. Heinlein](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-27.jpg?resize=720%2C720&ssl=1)
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein
- Heinlein, Robert A. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 608 Pages - 07/31/2018 (Publication Date) - Ace (Publisher)
28)
!["Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm, and harmony." - Thomas Merton](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-28.jpg?resize=720%2C542&ssl=1)
“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm, and harmony.” – Thomas Merton
29)
!["The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us." - Ashley Montagu](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-29.jpg?resize=720%2C720&ssl=1)
“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” – Ashley Montagu
30) Be grateful for positive happy quotes.
!["Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-30.jpg?resize=720%2C1029&ssl=1)
“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
31)
!["No medicine cures what happiness cannot." - Gabriel García Márquez](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-31.jpg?resize=720%2C743&ssl=1)
“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” – Gabriel García Márquez
32)
!["Happiness is not doing fun things. Happiness is doing meaningful things." - Maxime Lagacé](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-32.jpg?resize=720%2C720&ssl=1)
“Happiness is not doing fun things. Happiness is doing meaningful things.” – Maxime Lagacé
33)
!["The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature." - Marcus Aurelius](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-33.jpg?resize=720%2C926&ssl=1)
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.” – Marcus Aurelius
34)
!["One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory." - Rita Mae Brown](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-34.jpg?resize=720%2C362&ssl=1)
“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” – Rita Mae Brown
35) Happy quotes to remind you to be yourself.
!["The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are." - Goldie Hawn](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-35.jpg?resize=720%2C720&ssl=1)
“The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.” – Goldie Hawn
36)
!["The purpose of our lives is to be happy." - Dalai Lama](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-36.jpg?resize=720%2C1026&ssl=1)
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama
37)
!["Roll with the punches and enjoy every minute of it." - Meghan Markle](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-37.jpg?resize=720%2C720&ssl=1)
“Roll with the punches and enjoy every minute of it.” – Meghan Markle
38)
!["Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination." - Mark Twain](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-38.gif?w=720&ssl=1)
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.” – Mark Twain
39)
!["Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-39.jpg?resize=720%2C587&ssl=1)
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde
40) Positive happy quotes are a state of mind.
!["Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things." - Walt Disney](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-40.jpg?resize=720%2C716&ssl=1)
“Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.” – Walt Disney
41)
!["The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy. It's all that matters." - Audrey Hepburn](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-41.jpg?resize=720%2C844&ssl=1)
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy. It’s all that matters.” – Audrey Hepburn
42)
!["There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." - Epictetus](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-42.jpg?resize=720%2C751&ssl=1)
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” – Epictetus
43)
!["There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons." - Stephen Chbosky](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-43.jpg?resize=720%2C760&ssl=1)
“There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.” – Stephen Chbosky
- Hardcover Book
- Chbosky, Stephen (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 240 Pages - 09/24/2019 (Publication Date) - MTV Books (Publisher)
44)
!["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](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-44.jpg?resize=720%2C910&ssl=1)
“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
45) Don’t worry, be happy quotes.
!["Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." - Anne Frank](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-45.jpg?resize=720%2C901&ssl=1)
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” – Anne Frank
46)
!["Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." - Marthe Troly-Curtin](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-46.jpg?resize=720%2C422&ssl=1)
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Marthe Troly-Curtin
- Hardcover Book
- Marthe Troly-Curtin (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 300 Pages - 08/24/2018 (Publication Date) - Forgotten Books (Publisher)
47)
!["True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." - Helen Keller](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-47.jpg?resize=720%2C379&ssl=1)
“True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” – Helen Keller
48)
!["Don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering." - Winnie the Pooh](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-48.jpg?resize=720%2C932&ssl=1)
“Don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.” – Winnie the Pooh
49)
!["If you want to be happy, be." - Leo Tolstoy](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-49.jpg?resize=720%2C720&ssl=1)
“If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy
50) Oh no! We’ve almost reached the end of happy positive quotes!
!["We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have." - Frederick Keonig](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-50.jpg?resize=720%2C720&ssl=1)
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” – Frederick Keonig
51)
!["Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy." - Benjamin Franklin](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-51.jpg?resize=720%2C720&ssl=1)
“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.” – Benjamin Franklin
52) Happy Quotes by Albert Camus
!["You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." - Albert Camus](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-52.jpg?resize=720%2C720&ssl=1)
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” – Albert Camus
53)
!["To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others." - Albert Camus](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-53.jpg?resize=720%2C720&ssl=1)
“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” – Albert Camus
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![I hope you enjoyed these happy quotes!](https://i0.wp.com/winkgo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-quotes-outro.gif?w=720&ssl=1)
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