Everyone wants to be happy, but sometimes it isn’t as easy as it sounds. Here we have a collection of be happy quotes to remind you to have a positive outlook and make the decision to be happy. Experience happiness wherever you go with these famous quotes and sayings.
Be Happy Quotes
If you want to be happy, be. – Leo Tolstoy
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. – Marcus Aurelius
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. – Robertson Davies
Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. – Cynthia Nelms
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. – Helen Keller
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. – George Bernard Shaw
You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you’ll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance. – Lavetta Sue Wegman
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead. – Charles M. Schwab
Whoever is happy will make others happy, too. – Mark Twain
The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters. – Audrey Hepburn
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight. – Hannah Arendt
No longer forward nor behind
I look in hope and fear;
But grateful take the good I find,
The best of now and here. – John G. Whittier
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. – Epictetus
Happy Life Quotes
Don’t waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour’s duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning. – Lillian Gish
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. – Benjamin Franklin
I’m fulfilled in what I do… I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes-the finer things of life-would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense. – Coretta Scott King
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats. – Iris Murdoch
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? – Albert Camus
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. – Arnold Bennett
Never let life’s hardships disturb you … no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages. – Nichiren Daishonen
Imagine every day to be the last of a life surrounded with hopes, cares, anger and fear. The hours that come unexpectedly will be much the more grateful. – Horace
Funny Happy Quotes
All you may need to be happy is love, but to survive you need money! – Jason Zebehazy
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. – Fran Lebowitz
It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. – Frank McKinney Hubbard
For the last few years, it’s been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you’re in with the cool crowd, you can’t be happy. – Lenny Kravitz
More Happiness Quotes
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. – Anton Chekhov
If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. – Edith Wharton
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. – Mildred Barthel
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy. – Robert Anthony
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? – Albert Einstein
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. – St. Augustine
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. – Dalai Lama
At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage. – Bob Dylan
Find me a man who’s interesting enough to have dinner with and I’ll be happy. – Lauren Bacall
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