Happiness Archives - Inspiring Quotes

Quotes About Happiness

Seek and spread joy through these uplifting quotes about happiness, fulfillment, and the simple pleasures all around us.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

The only way to find permanent joy is by embracing the fact that nothing is permanent.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

Washington Irving

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

Happiness is not a goal, it’s a by-product.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

Humanitarian and former U.S. first lady (1884-1962)

Mahatma Gandhi

Indian independence leader (1869-1948)

Martha Beck

Sociologist and author (1962-present)

Washington Irving

Washington Irving

Writer and historian (1783-1859)

Audrey Hepburn

Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë

Author and poet (1816-1855)

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British philosopher, writer, and speaker (1915-1973)

French philosopher and author (1913-1960)

Alexander Woollcott

Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929-1945)

Nobel Prize-winning French writer (1940-present)

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Bessie Anderson Stanley

Actress and comedian (1922-2021)

Jamaican reggae singer (1945-1981)

Buddhist proverb

Buddy Wakefield

C

British writer (1898-1963)

Charles Baudelaire

French pastor (1852-1918)

Charlotte Brontë

Author and poet (1816-1855)

Author (1968-present)

Christopher Moore

Author (1957-present)

D

Japanese Buddhist philosopher (1928-2023)

Political commentator (1961-present)

Filmmaker (1946-2025)

David Steindl-Rast

Fashion editor (1903-1989)

E

Spiritual teacher and self-help author (1948-present)

Pulitzer Prize-winning author (1862-1937)

Eleanor Roosevelt

Humanitarian and former U.S. first lady (1884-1962)

Emily Dickinson

Poet (1830-1886)

Greek philosopher (341-270 BCE)

Eugène Ionesco

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Fernando Pessoa

Flannery O'Connor

English philosopher and statesman (1561-1626)

Frank Lloyd Wright

G

Gabrielle Zevin

George Santayana

Spanish American philosopher and writer (1863-1952)

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Author, educator, and activist (1880-1968)

Henry David Thoreau

Writer, philosopher, and naturalist (1817-1862)

I

J

Writer and civil rights activist (1924-1987)

Jamie Lee Curtis

English author (1775-1817)

Animal scientist and conservationist (1934-present)

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Actor (1962-present)

Actress, comedian, and writer (1933-2014)

Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer (1902-1968)

English Orthodox rabbi (1948-2020)

K

Editor and publisher (1952-present)

Kurt Schwitters

L

Russian author (1828-1910)

Ludwig van Beethoven

German composer (1770-1827)

Ludwig Wittgenstein

M

Indian independence leader (1869-1948)

Marcus Aurelius

Roman emperor (121-180 CE)

Margaret Wander Bonanno

Sociologist and author (1962-present)

Dancer and choreographer (1894-1991)

Marthe Troly-Curtin

Mary Lou Retton

Olympic gymnast (1968-present)

English novelist (1797-1851)

Poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928-2014)

Oscar-winning actress (1949-present)

Former U.S. first lady (1964-present)

Actress, producer, and screenwriter (1979-present)

Musician and DJ (1965-present)

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Nikos Kazantzakis

P

Singer, songwriter, and poet (1946-present)

Brazilian author (1947-present)

Buddhist nun and teacher (1936-present)

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

English actress, writer, and producer (1985-present)

R

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

Author and pilot (1936-present)

Poet and lyricist for the Grateful Dead (1941-2019)

Robert Rabensteiner

Painter and illustrator (1882-1971)

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Sharon Salzberg

Author and meditation pioneer (1952-present)

Simone de Beauvoir

French philosopher and writer (1908-1986)

Indian spiritual leader (1931-2007)

Stephen Colbert

Entrepreneur and Apple co-founder (1955-2011)

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Terry Pratchett

Fantasy author (1948-2015)

Thích Nhất Hạnh

Vietnamese Buddhist monk (1926-2022)

Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (1931-2019)

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Austrian writer (1888-1960)

EGOT-winning actress and producer (1965-present)

W

Poet and essayist (1819-1892)

Wanda Landowska

Polish harpsichordist (1879-1959)

Washington Irving

Writer and historian (1783-1859)

Novelist (1873-1947)

English poet and painter (1757-1827)

William Carlos Williams

William Shakespeare

English playwright and poet (c. 1564-1616)

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Artist and peace activist (1933-present)