Embracing Joy: 50 Uplifting Happiness Quotes to inspire your life 

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Are you happy? That's the question I've been asking myself lately. Sometimes life can be tough, and amidst all the challenges and disappointments, we tend to forget the simple things that bring joy into our lives.

We often pursue wealth and success, thinking that it's the key to happiness, but it's simple things like a child's laughter or watching birds that truly encompass what happiness is all about.

Happiness is a positive state of wellbeing, feeling content with the little things, having positive thoughts, and radiating that joy into others.

A person who is truly happy is kind, always gives, and is filled with gratitude.

We've collected 50 uplifting quotes about happiness that will remind us of the beauty of life and teach us to find joy in the simple things.

1. "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.."

Herman Cain

2. "Some people cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go.."

Oscar Wilde 

3. "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.."

Helen Keller 

4. "Happy girls are the prettiest.."

Audrey Hepburn 

5. "If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we'd have a pretty good time.."

Edith Wharton 

6. Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves 

James M. Barrie

7. "Happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.."

Roy M. Goodman 

8. "Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.."

Steve Maraboli

9. "I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.."

Parker Palmer

10. To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others

Albert Camus 

11. "You are in charge of your own happiness; you don't need to wait for othe people's permission to be happy.."

Roy T. Bennett 

12. "Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.."

Ralph Marston

13. "If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.."

Morris West 

14. "The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.."

Louisa May Alcott 

15. "Being happy never goes out of style.."

Lilly Pulitzer 

16. "If you ever have to decide between winning a fight or being happy, choose happiness. Being happy automatically makes you a winner.."

Karen Salmansohn

17. "Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.."

Joel Osteen

18. "The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.."

Richard Bach

19. "The happiness you feel is in direct proportion with the love you give.."

Oprah Winfrey 

20. "For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

21. "People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.."

Anton Chekhov 

22. "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 

23. "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.."

Abraham Lincoln 

24. "Don't forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally.."

Hannah Bronfman

25. "A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.."

Albert Einstein 

26. "Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.."

Napoleon Hill

27. "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 Koenig

28. "I'd far rather be happy than right any day.."

Douglas Adams 

29. "Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.."

Bernard Meltzer

30. "The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.."

Victor Hugo 

31. "It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.."

Margaret Bonnano

32. Happiness is usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.."

Thomas Szasz

33. "Happiness is a habit- cultivate it.."

Elbert Hubbard 

34. "It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.."

Seneca

35. "The discontented man finds no easy chair.."

Benjamin Franklin 

36. "Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

37. "Divine love is perfect peace and joy, it is a freedom from all disquiet, it is all content and happiness; and makes everything to rejoice in itself.."

William Law

38. Nothing is happy until it fulfills the purpose for which it was created by God

Jack Hyles

39. "The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are.."

Goldie Hawn

40. "Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth.."

Mallory Hopkins 

41. "How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now.."

Gerald Jampolsky

42. "The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.."

Marcel Pagnol

43. "He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.."

Lao Tzu 

44. "Family and friends are the two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.."

John C. Maxwell 

45. "The happiness of life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.."

Marcus Aurelius 

46. "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.."

Dr Seuss 

47. Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.."

Jacques Prévert

48. "True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.."

Joseph Addison 

49. "Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.."

Marcel Proust 

50. "Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.."

Rose Wilder Lane 

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