Best Happiness Quotes

I’m a fan of happiness quotes at any time. But I especially love happiness quotes in August … Happiness Happens Month!

Today, I want to share my favorite happiness quotes. There are so great quotes with a “happy” theme, so I’m limiting these to quotes that have the word “happy” or “happiness” in them.

“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, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“If you think sunshine brings you happiness, then you haven’t danced in the rain.” unknown

“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Abraham Lincoln

“I am happy and content because I think I am.” Alain-Rene Lesage

“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, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

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

“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.” Thomas Merton

“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” W.P. Kinsella

“Happiness is a warm puppy.” Charles M. Schulz

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” Jonathan Safran Foer

“Happiness… it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” Ayn Rand

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

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” George Washington Burnap

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

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” George Bernard Shaw

“Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others…By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.” Gordon B. Hinckley

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.” Mother Teresa

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” Mother Teresa

“There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.” Edith Wharton

“Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.” Martin Luther King Jr.

“Happiness… consists in giving, and in serving others.” Henry Drummond

“To be able to share in another’s joy, that is the secret of happiness.” George Bernanos

“Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.” Dalai Lama XIV

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.” Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“Whoever is happy will make others happy.” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” Robert Frost

“I’m choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.” Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” Louisa May Alcott

“Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.” Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“Like swimming, riding, writing or playing golf, happiness can be learned.” Dr. Boris Sokoloff

“Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.” Chuang-Tzu

“There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.” Lady Marguerite Blessington

“Happy girls are the prettiest girls.” Audrey Hepburn

“Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.” Henry van Dyke

“Wherever I am, if I’ve got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.” J. K. Rowling

“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.” Joseph Wood Krutch

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” Andy Rooney

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” Omar Khayyam

“Happiness is the best adventure on earth.” David Baird

“Happy Girls are the Prettiest Girls” Word Art Freebie (without watermark)

For other “best quotes” collections, see my “Best Quotes” post.

Wishing you a happy Happiness Happens Month every month!

Note: I have lots of word-art inspiration at the Bits of Positivity Facebook page and on Pinterest!

Photo Credit: Stock photo at the top of post by subbotina.