Where does happiness come from and what does it truly mean?
These 20 happiness quotes about life I’m sharing with you below, will help you gain more understanding on the true meaning of happiness, where to find it, and how to experience it more in your everyday life. These quotations can potentially inspire habit changes and mindset shifts with regard to the subject of true and lasting happiness in life.
Quote #1 by Dale Carnegie
“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. Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.”
Quote #2 by Hugh Downs
“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”
Quote #3 by Gerard Way
“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.”
Quote #4 by Mandy Hale
“Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is. 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. The only keeper of your happiness is you.”
Quote #5 by Alan Cohen
“Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch. Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want. Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.”
Quote #6 by Denis Waitley
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”
Quote #7 by Sri Chinmoy
“Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.”
Quote #8 by Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.”
Quote #9 by Epictetus
“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.”
Quote #10 by Marcel Pagnol
“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.”
Quote #11 by Lao Tzu
“If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.”
Quote #12 by Marcus Aurelius
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
Quote #13 by Abraham Lincoln
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
Quote #14 by W. Beran Wolfe
“If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day.”
Quote #15 by Charles Dickens
“Reflect upon you present blessings, of which every man has many–not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
Quote #16 by Groucho Marx
“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.”
Quote #17 by Democritus
“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.”
Quote #18 by Norman Vincent Peale
“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.”
Quote #19 by Deepak Chopra
“The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very moment. Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.”
Quote #20 by Saint Augustine
“Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.”
I hope you’ve found these 20 happiness quotes about life very enriching and inspiring.
Blessings and namaste 🙂
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