Are you looking for a positive way to start your day? Or has today so far been a boring, stressful or simply bad day?
Then today’s post can help you out. In it I want to share 120 of the most powerful and empowering short happy quotes.
Ones that will make you think and help you find a new perspective. Ones that will add positive energy to your day and help you to turn it around.
And ones that will bring gratitude and more happiness to your life.
Short Happy Quotes for Positive Good Vibes
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
– Mark Twain
“If you want to be happy, be.”
– Leo Tolstoy
“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
– Charles M. Schulz
“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.”
– Dalai Lama
“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.”
– W. P. Kinsella
“A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.”
– Albert Einstein
“Happiness is not a goal… it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”
– Joseph Campbell
“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.”
– Dennis Waitley
“Happiness is acceptance.”
– Unknown
“The mere sense of living is joy enough.”
– Emily Dickinson
“Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.”
– Walt Disney
“Simplicity makes me happy.”
– Alicia Keys
“Independence is happiness.”
– Susan B. Anthony
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
– Anne Frank
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
– Dr. Seuss
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
– Confucius
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
– Omar Khayyam
“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
– Alice Munro
“Think positive, feel positive and positive things will happen.”
– Unknown
“Roll with the punches and enjoy every minute of it.”
– Meghan Markle
“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”
– Mary Lou Retton
“Whoever is happy will make others happy.”
– Anne Frank
Short Happy Quotes for Positive Thoughts
“That’s your unlimited desires that are clouding your peace, your happiness.”
– Naval Ravikant
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anaïs Nin
“The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are.”
– Goldie Hawn
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
– Dalai Lama
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.”
– Andrew Carnegie
“Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.”
– Leo Tolstoy
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
– Aristotle
“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
– Ayn Rand
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
– Rita Mae Brown
“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.”
– Lou Holtz
“We become what we think about.”
– Earl Nightingale
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.”
– Steve Maraboli
“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.”
– Charles Dickens
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
– Guillaume Apollinaire
“Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
– Ram Dass
“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
– Honoré de Balzac
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy.”
– Leo Buscaglia
“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.”
– Morris West
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust
“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
– Louisa May Alcott
Short Happy Quotes That Will Make You Smile
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
– Marthe Troly-Curtin
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.”
– Elbert Hubbard
“Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called ‘All the Things That Could Go Wrong.’”
– Marianne Williamson
“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.”
– William Arthur Ward
“Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness.”
– Christian Dior
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
– Senec
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.”
– Winnie the Pooh
“Be happy. It really annoys negative people.”
– Ricky Gervais
“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.”
– Stephen Hawking
“Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
– George Burns
“There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
– Stephen Chbosky
“If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.”
– Proverb
“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.”
– William Arthur Ward
“If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
– Roald Dahl
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
Deep and Short Happy Quotes
“Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.”
– William Feather
“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.”
– Rose Lane
“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
– Martha Washington
“Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.”
– Unknown
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”
– James Oppenheim
“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
– Nikos Kazantzakis
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
– Tom Bodett
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”
– Carrie Jones
“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.”
– Dale Carnegie
“The grass is always greener where you water it.”
– Unknown
“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.”
– Marquis de Condorcet
“On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do.”
– Eckhart Tolle
“Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.”
– Buddha
“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.”
– Andre Maurois
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“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
“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”
– James M. Barrie
Short Happy Quotes About Life
“The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
– Nelson Mandela
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
– Robert Frost
“Just because it didn’t last forever, doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth your while.”
– Unknown
“Happiness is distraction from human tragedy.”
– J.M. Reinoso
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
– Chuck Palahniuk
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
– Dalai Lama
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.”
– Audrey Hepburn
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
– Helen Keller
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.”
– Carrie Underwood
“It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness.”
– Richard Branson
“Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.”
– Roy T. Bennett
“Happiness does not lead to gratitude. Gratitude leads to happiness.”
– David Steindl-Rast
“Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.”
– Milton Erickson
“The only joy in the world is to begin.”
– Cesare Pavese
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.”
– Helen Keller
Short Happy Quotes for the Day
“The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”
– William Morris
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
– Mark Twain
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
“Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.”
– Aesop
“Remember today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”
– Dale Carnegie
“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
– Dalai Lama
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”
– Groucho Marx
“Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”
– Dalai Lama
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.”
– Albert Schweitzer
“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“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
“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.”
– Anton Chekhov
“Happiness is a state of activity.”
– Aristotle
“Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are.”
– Chinese Proverb
“Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.”
– Dale Carnegie
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