55 happy quotes to brighten up every day

Happiness isn’t always easy to define, but these happy quotes can help you cultivate a greater sense of calm.

There is no magic trick to finding happiness, nor is there a single path that leads there. In fact, happiness is more often a byproduct of our actions, rather than an end result.

Happiness is also more than a passing emotion: practicing positive thinking and affirmationsyou can make a difference to your emotional and physical well-being.

In fact, a 2022 Study found that high levels of optimism were associated with greater longevity.

One way to improve your mood is to maintain a gratitude diary happy moments throughout the day so you can remember them when you’re feeling down.

During life’s most challenging times, it can be especially difficult to imagine a light at the end of the tunnel. There may be no one-size-fits-all guide to happiness, but there are many ways to find satisfaction even in your lowest days.

When you just need a little reminder to keep going, these happy quotes are the perfect pick-me-up.

Happy quotes to brighten your day

• “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama

• “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; It’s the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” -Marcel Proust

• “Those who do not seek happiness are more likely to find it, because those who do forget that the safest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.” – Martin Luther King Junior.

• “It’s the moments when I stopped to just be, instead of do, that gave me true happiness.” -Richard Branson

• “You can’t have a positive life and a negative mind.” -Joice Meyer

• “People always say, ‘But you always look so happy.’ Well, that’s Botox! Nobody is happy all the time. But I work hard for it.” -Dolly Parton

• “True happiness… is not achieved through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” – Helen Keller

• “Remember that the happiest people are not those who receive the most, but those who give the most.” -H.Jackson Brown Jr.

• “The only thing that will make you happy is to be happy with who you are, not who people think you are.” -Goldie Hawn

• “Don’t ruin a good today by thinking about a bad yesterday. Nevermind.” – Hoda Kotb, “I Really Needed This Today: Words to Live By”

• “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someone else up.” -Mark Twain

• “Smile in the mirror. Do this every morning and you will start to see a big difference in your life.” – Yoko Ono

• “There is only one lasting happiness in life: living for others.” – Leo Tolstoy

• “A great obstacle to happiness is expecting too much happiness.” -Bernard de Fontenelle

• “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” -Charles Spurgeon

• “The essence of philosophy is that a man should live in such a way that his happiness depends as little as possible on external things.” – Epictetus

• “Happiness does not reside in the mere possession of money; lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt

• “I try to treat whoever I meet like an old friend. It gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion.” – Dalai Lama

• “True happiness does not consist in a multitude of friends, but in value and choice.” -Ben Jonson

• “Don’t want anything but the best for your friends, because when your friends are happy and successful, it will probably be easier for you to be happy.” – Roxane Gay, “Bad Feminist”

• “Happiness radiates like the fragrance of a flower and attracts all good things to you.” – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

• “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” -Albert Camus

• “Take responsibility for your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.” —Roy T. Bennet, “The Light in the Heart”

• “Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” -Maya Angelou

• “The world is so full of so many things that I am sure we should all be as happy as kings.” – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Happy Thought”

• “Happiness is not a goal, it is a byproduct.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

• “When we are unhappy, we doubt everything; When happy, you don’t doubt anything. ” – Joseph Roux

• “If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never feel fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be satisfied with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize that nothing is missing, the world belongs to you.” – Lao Tse

• “Happiness is not a good to be valued, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.” -Daphne du Maurier, “Rebecca”

• “Optimism is a magnet for happiness. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be attracted to you.” -Mary Lou Retton

• “If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.” -Dolly Parton

• “Most of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, not on our circumstances.” -Marta Washington

• “Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.” -Mahatma Gandhi

• “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” – Gabriel García Márquez

• “I felt my lungs inflate with the advance of the landscape – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what being happy is.’” – Sylvia Plath, “The Bell Jar”

• “In my experience, you can almost always enjoy things if you firmly decide that you will.” – L.M. Montgomery, “Anne of Green Gables”

• “Happiness is like the top of the mountain. Sometimes it’s hidden by the clouds, but we know it’s there.” – Helen Keller

• “Let anyone who comes to you walk away feeling better and happier.” – Mother Teresa

• “I’d rather be happy than right any day.” – Douglas Adams, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”

• “I’m choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I am making space for the unknown future to fill my life with surprises that are yet to come.” – Elizabeth Gilbert, “Eat, Pray, Love”

• “One reason cats are happier than people is that they don’t have newspapers.” -Gwendolyn Brooks

• “You cannot be happy unless you are sometimes unhappy.” ―Lauren Oliver, “Delirium”

• “Enjoy the little things in life, because one day you might look back and realize they were the big things.” -Robert Brault

• “I think happiness is what makes you beautiful. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and reflect this happiness.” – Drew Barrymore

• “I would always rather be happy than worthy.” – Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre”

• “The only way to find true happiness is to take the risk of being completely open.” -Chuck Palahniuk

• “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” – Dalai Lama

• “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it is the ability to deal with them.” -Steve Maraboli

• “We should always make time for the things we enjoy. If we don’t, we may forget how to be happy.” – TJ Klune, “The House on the Cerulean Sea”

• “The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It’s not that we grab them, but that they grab us.” -Ashley Montagu

• “There is always light. If only we are brave enough to see it. If only we are brave enough to be that.” —Amanda Gorman

• “We are all drafts of the people we are still becoming.” -Bob Goff

• “Most people are as happy as they choose to be.” -Abraham Lincoln

• “The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes the home happy and the life lovely.” – Louisa May Alcott

• “Uninterrupted happiness is boring: it should have ups and downs.” – Molière

This article was originally published in TODAY.com