It’s International Day of Happiness, and what better way to start the day than to share 28 of my favourite quotes about happiness and what it means.

I’m choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises – Elizabeth Gilbert

 

 

To live is the rarest thing in the world – most people just exist – Oscar Wilde 

Whoever is happy will make others happy – Anne Frank

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit – Hosea Ballou 

The only thing that will make you happy is being who you are, and not who people think you are – Goldie Hawn

 

 

Happiness is a direction, not a place – Sydney J Harris 

I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness – Drew Barrymore

One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows – Chinese Proverb 

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony – Mahatma Gandhi

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

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters – Audrey Hepburn

 

 

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get – W. P. Kinsella

All happiness depends on courage and work – Honoré de Balzac

Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands – Roy T. Bennett

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts – Marcus Aurelius

 

 

Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived – Eleanor Roosevelt

Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness – Fyodor Dostoevsky

I’d far rather be happy than right any day – Douglas Adams

Happiness depends upon ourselves – Aristotle 

 

 

Maybe the truth is, there’s a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn’t having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it’s about stringing together all the little things – Ann Brashares

Don’t let success go to your head and failure go to your heart – Will Smith 

 

What about you guys? What are you favourite quotes about happiness?

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