Short happy quotes about life to live by
True happiness is not something to search for, something that money can buy or something that is fixed.
Here are 72 short and awesome quotes about true happiness:
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“Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith.”
Kareena Kapoor Khan
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“On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do.”
Eckhart Tolle
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“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Abraham Lincoln
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“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”
Jim Rohn
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“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
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“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
Omar Khayyam
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“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
Herman Cain
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“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
George Burns
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“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
Aristotle
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“A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.”
James E. Faust
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“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”
Anthony de Mello
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“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
Dalai Lama
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“Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.”
Milton Erickson
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“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”
James M. Barrie
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“The simplest things can bring the most happiness.”
Izabella Scorupco
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“Happiness is a state of activity.”
Aristotle
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“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.”
Morris West
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“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”
James Oppenheim
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“The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.”
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Richard Bach
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“Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”
Denis Waitley
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“And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”
Confucius
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“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“The grass is always greener where you water it.”
Unknown
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“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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“Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends.”
Divyanka Tripathi
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“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”
Thomas Merton
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“There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
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“The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.”
Marie Kondo
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“If you want to be happy, be.”
Leo Tolstoy
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“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
Dalai Lama
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“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
Benjamin Franklin
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“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
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“Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I’ve learned, that’s the path to happiness.”
Lesley Ann Warren
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“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
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“Happiness… consists in giving, and in serving others.”
Henry Drummond
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“True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
Helen Keller
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“Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.”
John Lubbock
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“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
Epictetus
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“Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.”
Leo Tolstoy
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“Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.”
Wayne Gretzky
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“Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.”
Dale Carnegie
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“My definition of beauty is happiness. I believe that when you are happy, it shines through and makes you a more attractive and beautiful person!”
Bianca Balti
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“When you’re happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness – and that’s a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.”
Suze Orman
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“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
Dale Carnegie
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“It’s enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.”
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Adrian Grenier
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“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”
Michael J. Fox
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“A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.”
William Ralph Inge
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“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
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“Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.”
Shawn Achor
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“Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.”
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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“It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.”
Lucille Ball
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“I always was a rich person because moneys not related to happiness.“
Paulo Coelho
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“You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.”
Tracy Kidder
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“Happiness is an inside job.”
William Arthur Ward
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“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
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“Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.”
William E. Gladstone
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“Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.”
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Richard Bach
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“Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.”
Deepak Chopra
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“There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.”
Maria Mitchell
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“In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.”
W. H. Auden
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“An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.”
Lydia M. Child
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“Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.”
Joseph Wood Krutch
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“Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.”
William James
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“It’s the most beautiful job in the world to give happiness to people.“
Hubert de Givenchy
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“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
Maxim Gorky
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“Life finds its purpose and fulfilment in the expansion of happiness.”
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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“Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.”
J. Donald Walters
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“Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.”
Prem Rawat
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“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
Marthe Troly-Curtin
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