The Ultimate Guide on Finding Happiness and 170 Happiness Quotes

Last Updated March 23, 2023

No matter what you attain in your life, no matter how much you achieve, none of it is worth it if you’re not happy. Ultimately, the pursuit of success is a pursuit of happiness. This is why everyone tries to achieve anything in this life, just because of the sense of achievement and victory, is making them happy deep down. But, you see, you can’t throw “happiness” around like a term like it’s something trivial like hunger or anger. No, happiness is a much more complicated emotion, that requires a great sense of fulfillment to accomplish. So, here are a few things that are required of you to have to find the happiness you are looking for!

Tip no1: If your Body is Happy, then your Mind will Follow.

Have you seen an obese and unhealthy person be truly happy? Of course not. You can only be truly happy when you are in good physical condition and when you have no health issues to worry about. That means that your diet should be on point, you should work out more and most importantly, spending more time outside. This way, you will be in a state of body and mind ready to achieve happiness.

Tip no2: Happy Wife, Happy Life.

The relationships that you build with the people around you are essential when it comes to happiness. But, out of every single one of them, the one that you will end up spending the more time worrying about is the relationship with your spouse and eventually your kids. So, taking care of your family and having a beautiful and sweet environment around the house is very important, and it will make you happier than you could have ever imagined.

Tip no3: Sharing is Caring, Caring is Happiness.

The best way to “multiply” happiness is by spreading it around. There is nothing that makes a person happier than making someone else smile, even if it’s someone close to them, or a complete stranger. Giving to others gives you a sense of accomplishment and emotional stability like nothing else in this world. The more, the better. It could be a smile coming from that little kid in your family whom you just bought its favorite toy or a homeless person you bought some lunch for. It’s these smiles you get from other people that are going to make your smile come out and smiling is one of the most significant indicators of happiness. Fun fact, it has been actually scientifically proven that smiling more makes you happier, so, get those smiles all nice and bright!

Tip no4: Being True to Yourself and the People around You.

There is no need for hatred, whether it is for yourself or for someone else. Letting anger fester inside you is going to destroy you and everything around you eventually. You need to express your feelings in a non-harmful, non-hateful way. This way, not only you’re clear with your consciousness but also with the people around you. So, next time you get in a fight, try to talk yourself out of it, not yell. Next time you get treated wrongly, don’t fight over it and hold grudges. Instead, talk about it like the civilized people you are and after that, forgive and forget. But most importantly, you need to be yourself. You can never be the best copycat out there, and life is too small to be living it as somebody else. So, be true to yourself and the ones around you, in return, you will attain true happiness.

Tip no5: Do What you Love.

Life Is Like A Camera. Just Focus On What Is Important.

Doing what you love in life is a significant factor when it comes to happiness. You can’t be happy when you spend 8 hours a day on a job you despise. I know it’s hard finding the “job of your dreams” and being happy while still being financially stable. But why financially stable, you ask? Have you seen someone being truly happy when he is at risk of getting evicted from his house because he can’t pay the bills? Or when he knows that he can’t send his kids to school? Or that he can’t afford to buy gifts for his loved ones? Or when he’s hungry? Didn’t think so…

Tip no6: Money can’t buy Happiness.

I know money is important in this world, but don’t spend too much time caring about it. You see, these are only going to bring you a temporary sense of enjoyment. If you truly want to be happy, then focus on emotions, focus on the relationships with the people around you, focus on yourself, focus on your dreams. Then, you can truly be happy.

170 Inspiring Happiness Quotes

Life’s greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.
Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.
In seeking happiness for others, you find it for yourself.
Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others.
And that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
An endurance test for some people is the pursuit of happiness.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
Much happiness is overlooked because it doesn’t cost anything.
Don’t limit investing in the financial world. Invest something of yourself, and you will be richly rewarded.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Happiness comes when you believe in what you are doing, know what you are doing, and love what you are doing.
A happy person is not a person in a specific set of circumstances, but rather a person with a specific set of attitudes.
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Happiness consists in activity; such as the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream and not a stagnant pool.

He alone is the happy man who has learned to extract happiness not from ideal conditions but from real ones about him.
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
It is not necessary that while I live, I live happily; but it is essential that so long as I live, I should live honorably.
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to allow men to work out happiness for themselves.
To be happy, one must rid oneself of prejudice, be virtuous, healthy, and have a capacity for enjoyment and for passion.
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap.
Happiness is not pleasure, it’s a victory.
The more you chase it, the more it eludes you.
No one can secure happiness without earning it.
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Anybody who is happy all the time needs a psychiatrist.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.
If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
Stop searching. Happiness is right next to you.
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
One is never so happy or so unhappy as one thinks.
Happy people plan actions, they don’t expect results.
Money can’t buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.
The gift of happiness belongs to those who unwrap it.
Patience is enough to toil until some good is accomplished.
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

Happiness is made to be shared.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.
Happiness is a state of activity.
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.
Definition of happiness: The full use of your powers along the lines of excellence.
Happiness lies in our own backyard, but It’s probably well hidden by crabgrass.
Happiness is not given but exchanged.
Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with occasional little flashes of effort. Constant and vigorous living is necessary.
How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. . . . All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a pure, frugal heart.
So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy but wishing that has wanted everything.
Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
True happiness must have the tinge of sorrow outlived, the sense of pain softened by the mellowing years, the chastening of loss that in the wondrous mystery of time transmutes our suffering into love and sympathy with others.
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the more significant part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
Some pursue happiness, others create it.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Happiness is not always measured in smiles.
Talk about happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
Be happy while you’re living, for you’re a long time dead.
Strength enough to battle with difficulties and overcome them.
We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in the gladness of heart.
Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.

Happiness is the soul’s joy in possession of the intangible.
How would you know what happiness is if you’ve never been otherwise?
If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
There is only one success – to spend your life in your own way.
Happiness and misery depend as much on temperament as on fortune.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Sometimes we miss happiness by looking too far for things nearby.
Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.
You can make yourself happy or miserable, it’s the same amount of effort.
All I ask for is an opportunity to prove that money doesn’t buy happiness.
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.
You have to find happiness in yourself before you can find it with someone.
Experience praises the happiest is the one who made the most people happy.
Gather the crumbs of happiness, and they will make you a loaf of contentment.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.
Most people would rather be sure they’re miserable than risk being happy.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
Set peace of mind as your highest goal and organize your entire life around it.
It is necessary to the happiness of a man that he is mentally faithful to himself.
Science has promised us the truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
But what is happiness except for the pure harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
Happiness is like jam. You can’t spread even a little without getting some on yourself.
The supreme happiness to life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves.
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make happiness.
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
All riches are multiplied by the simple process of sharing them where they may serve others.
Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment, it is a result.
If you find some happiness inside yourself, you’ll start findin’ it in a lot of other places too.
Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
A person is never happy until their vague strivings have itself marked out its proper limitations.
Friends, books, cheerful heart, and conscience clear are the most choice companions we have here.
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
For happiness, one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required, and necessities are not wanting.
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery.
Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesses and amusements.
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves.
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.
What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God-like manner.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness, being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and exciting ways.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
What is without us has no connection with happiness, only so far as the preservation of our lives and health depends upon it. . . .
We must dare to be happy, and dare to confess it, regarding ourselves always as the depositories, not as the authors of our own joy.
All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.
If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every decent life.
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.
Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Happiness doesn’t depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel towards what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much.
The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent on things, but be a part of personality and character.
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.
We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
Happiness is a man’s most significant achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.
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 been opened for us.
If men considered not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts….take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Happiness, in this world, if it comes at all, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us on a wild-goose chase, and it is never attained.
The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.
Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain high for all time, and . . . Not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self, but the point is not only to get out, but you must also stay out; and to stay out, you must have some absorbing errand.
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made an exceptional voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!
There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else’s work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
The lives and happiness of our children, as far ahead as the mind can reach, depend on us today. If we succeed, posterity looking back will record that this was indeed man’s finest hour.
The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.
I remember hearing in a talk that the more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball,
We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.
Happiness isn’t something you experience, it’s something you remember.
Some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
The envious are not happy unless they are making other people envious.
Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.
Don’t mistake pleasure for happiness, they are a different breed of dogs.
He who has not learned to share his blessings with others has not found the right path to enduring happiness. Happiness comes from sharing one’s self and one’s blessings.
Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

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