I’ve selected the happiness quotes that I find most inspiring. In doing so I’ve also been mindful of the science, selecting the quotes that reflect current insights into happiness to both inspire and guide.
Happiness quotes
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, and a hell of heaven.
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aurelius
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
H. Jackson Brown, Jnr.
Happiness is an inside job.
William Arthur Ward
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.
Martin Seligman
Happiness is a habit – cultivate it.
Elbert Hubbard
Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.
Herman Cain