Short quotes about happiness

“Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.”–Buddha

“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”–Andre Maurois

There are so many beautiful reasons to be happy.

“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.”–Marquis de Condorcet

“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”–Mary Lou Retton

“I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.”–Dalai Lama

“Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”–Joseph Campbell

“Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.”–Leo Tolstoy

“You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes”.”–Lauren Oliver

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”–Bertrand Russell

“What I do maintain is that success can only be one ingredient in happiness, and is too dearly purchased if all the other ingredients have been sacrificed to obtain it.”–Bertrand Russell

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”–Dr. Seuss

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”–Oscar Wilde

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”–Winston S. Churchill

“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”–J.R.R. Tolkien

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”–Victor Hugo

 One of the happiest moment in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you can’t change.

“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”–Roy T. Bennett

And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’ Kurt Vonnegut

The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage. Carrie Jones

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

Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. Dale Carnegie

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. Wayne Dyer

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. Jim Rohn

Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are. Chinese proverb

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. John Stuart Mill

There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way. Thich Nhat Hanh (notable-quotes.com)

Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. Niccolo Machiavelli

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Sometimes we don’t find the thing that will make us happy because we can’t give up the thing that was supposed to. Robert Brault

There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt

I’m happy. Which often looks like crazy. David Henry Hwang

What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome. Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness does not lead to gratitude. Gratitude leads to happiness. David Steindl-Rast Click to tweet

The deepest satisfaction you’ll find will be when you give all you’ve got on one thing, or when you’ll do absolutely nothing and accept life as it is. Think On and Off. Avoid the middle. Maxime Lagacé

A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness. Leo Tolstoy