20 Quotes About Happiness — Finding Joy in Everyday Life
What does it mean to be truly happy? These quotes from philosophers, writers, and leaders offer wisdom on finding and creating happiness.
"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."
Dalai Lama
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
Dalai Lama
"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."
John Lennon
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
Aristotle
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy — it's all that matters."
Audrey Hepburn
"Happiness is a warm puppy."
Charles M. Schulz (Snoopy creator)
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
Anne Frank
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."
James M. Barrie
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln
"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."
Anne Frank
"The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open."
Chuck Palahniuk
"Happiness is a direction, not a place."
Sydney J. Harris