+200 Short and Beautiful Phrases of Happiness and Joy

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Egbert Haynes

We all seek happiness, life is more pleasant when we feel joy, well-being and for many people that is true success, and not something material. The reality is that we insist on making life more complex, although if we have certain needs covered, life is easy.

In fact, many agree that happiness is found in the little things and in personal relationships, not in big career successes, in a car, or in a big house. This can be verified in a simple way; What are the happiest moments of your life? They are surely moments shared with loved ones.

Phrases of happiness and joy

That is why we have made this compilation of phrases of happiness and joy, very beautiful and that will let you understand the thoughts that famous characters in history had about this emotion such as Marco Aurelio, Aristotle, the Dalai Lama, Helen Keller or Confucius.
These pretty messages will help you put more joy in your life or a smile on your face. Not only to you, but to your loved ones, since they are ideal for sharing and dedicating on special days.

-Happiness is enjoying the little things in life.

-Only the one who knows how to be happy with everything can be happy always.-Confucius.

-Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.-Ayn Rand.

-Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.

-The purpose of our lives is to be happy.-Buddha.

-Do more of what makes you happy.

-Choose joy. Choose happiness. Choose to shine.

-The art of being happy is in being satisfied with what you have.

-Keep smiling. Do what makes your soul shine.

-Happiness is not outside, it is inside you.

-Life is too short not to be happy.

-Today is the perfect day to be happy.

-There is only one happiness in this life; love and be loved.-George Sand.

-Be so happy that when others look at you, they will be happy too.

-Happiness is the best makeup.-Drew Barrymore.

-Whatever you do, make sure it makes you happy.-Paulo Coelho.

-Happiness depends on ourselves.-Aristotle.

-Only those who are happy can distribute happiness.-Paulo Coelho.

-Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy.-Bernard Meltzer.

-Optimism is a magnet for happiness.-Mary Lou Retton.

-Be like a pineapple. Stand up straight, wear a crown and be sweet on the inside.

-To be happy, it is enough to have good health and a bad memory.-Ingrid Bergman.

-Happiness consists in being free, that is, not wanting anything.-Epictetus.

-Happiness is not something already done. It comes from your own actions.-Dalai Lama.

-Every minute you are pissed off you lose sixty seconds of happiness.-Ralph Waldo Emerson.

-True happiness is enjoying the present, without anxious dependence on the future.-Marco Aurelio.

-Every now and then it's good to stop looking for happiness and just be happy.-Guillaume Apollinaire.

-Happiness is not a state to reach, but a way of traveling.-Margaret Lee Runbeck.

-A smile is happiness that you will find right under your nose.-Tom Wilson.

-When what you are is what you want to be, that is happiness.-Malcolm Forbes.

-To forgive yourself is to be happy.-Robert Louis Stevenson.

-Happiness does not reside in possessions, nor in gold, but in the soul.-Democritus.

-Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.-Dale Carnegie.

-I have only one day, today, and I will be happy.-Groucho Marx.

-Happy is he who learns to endure what he cannot change.-Friedrich Schiller.

-Even if happiness forgets you a little, never forget it completely.-Jacques Prévert.

-The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage.-Thucydides.

-Happiness consists in giving and serving others.-Henry Drummond.

-The man whose pleasures are cheaper is richer.-Henry David Thoreau.

-Happiness is found in doing, not simply possessing.-Napoleon Hill.

-Be happy with what you have. Get excited with what you want.-Alan Cohen.

-If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you will never enjoy the sunlight.-Morris West.

-Happiness is not something you put off for the future, it's something you design for the present.-Jim Rohn.

-A happy life does not consist in the absence, but in the mastery of difficulties.-Hellen Keller.

-You can be happy where you are.-Joel Osteen.

-Do not wish for anything, renounce all desires and you will be happy.-Swami Sivananda.

-Who is happy, also makes others happy.-Anne Frank.

-Joy is not in things, it is in us.-Richard Wagner.

-Happiness is an address, not a place.-Sydney J. Harris.

-The simplest things can bring the greatest happiness.-Izabella Scorupco.

-There is only one person who can make you happy, and that person is you.-David D. Burns.

-Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.-Sophocles.

-Let go. That is the key to happiness.-Buddha.

-A joyful heart lives longer.-William Shakespeare.

-Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.-Albert Schweitzer.

-Happy people plan actions, not results.-Dennis Waitley.

-No one can be happy if he does not appreciate himself.-Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

-One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.-Rita Mae Brown.

-Ask yourself if you are happy and you will stop being so.-John Stuart Mill.

-The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer up another.-Mark Twain.

-We must laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.-Jean de La Bruyere.

-We only have the happiness that we have given to others.-Edouard Pailleron.

-Whoever seeks constant happiness and wisdom must accommodate frequent changes.-Confucius.

-Happiness: a pleasure shared with another person.-Jean Dolent.

-Choose to be happy. That is the only way to find happiness.-Debasish Mridha.

-Your ability to know happiness depends on your ability to know pain.-Macedonia Fernández.

-I have committed the worst sin that one can commit: I have not been happy.-Jorge Luis Borges.

-There is no duty that we neglect so much as to be happy.-Robert L. Stevenson.

-Life will bring you pain on its own. Your responsibility is to create joy.-Milton Erickson.

-The word happiness would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.-Carl Jung.

-The duck is happy in its dirty puddle because it does not know the sea.-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

-Being without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.-Bertrand Russell.

-Happiness is not doing what you want, but wanting what you do.-Jean Paul Sartre.

-Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the end of human existence.-Aristotle.

-It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.-Agnes Repplier.

-Most people are as happy as they decide to be themselves.-Abraham Lincoln.

-Happiness is never shortened by being shared.-Buddha.

-Twenty years from now you will probably be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the moorings. Sail away from the port. Catch the favorable winds in your sails. Explore. It sounds. Discover.-Mark Twain.

-The good of humanity must consist in each one enjoying the maximum happiness he can, without diminishing the happiness of others.-Aldous Huxley.

-Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose doors are defended by dragons: we must fight to conquer it.-Alexandre Dumas.

-The joy of life consists in always having something to do, someone to love and something to look forward to.-Thomas Chalmers.

-Living for others is not only the law of duty, but also the law of happiness.-Auguste Comte.

-It is not what you have, who you are, where you are or what you do that makes you happy or unhappy. It's what you think about it.-Dale Carnegie.

-Being happy does not mean that everything is perfect. It means that you have decided to look beyond the blemishes..

-Happiness is sometimes a blessing, but usually it is a conquest.-Paulo Coelho. 

-The art of being happy resides in the power to extract happiness from common things.-Henry Ward Beecher.

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

-The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.-Marco Aurelio.

-Action does not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.-Benjamin Disraeli.

-Happy is the man who has broken the chains that damage his mind, and has abandoned worry once and for all.-Ovidio.

-Happiness consists in the frequent repetition of pleasure.-Arthur Schopenhauer.

-The best way to be happy is to make every day happy.-Deepak Chopra.

-Happiness is achieved through fidelity to a worthy purpose.-Helen Keller.

-The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.-Arthur Schopenhauer.

-Money has never made a man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in his nature that produces happiness. The more you have the more you want.-Benjamin Franklin.

-One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature should not be broken.-Leo Tolstoy.

-Finding what one is destined to do, and securing an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.-John Dewey.

-We all want to help each other. Human beings are like that. We want to live with the happiness of others, not with the misfortune of others.-Charlie Chaplin.

-When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but we often look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.-Helen Keller.

-Happiness can exist only in acceptance.-George Orwell.

-The time you waste enjoying is not wasted.-Marthe Troly-Curtin.

-Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you agree to share them generously.-Albert Camus.

-There is no medicine that cures what happiness does not cure.-Gabriel García Márquez.

-Happiness does not spring from reason, but from imagination.-Immanuel Kant.

-The constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to take it for yourself.-Benjamin Franklin.

-Happiness is the result of good conscience, good health, occupation and freedom.-Thomas Jefferson.

-Daily life requires courage if it is to bring happiness.-Maxwell Maltz.

-The best years of your life are when you decide that your problems are yours. You don't blame your mother, the environment, or the president for them. You realize that you control your own destiny.-Albert Ellis.

-Happiness often sneaks through a door you didn't know you left open.-John Barrymore.

-Happiness is a virtue, not a reward.-Baruch Spinoza.

-Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.-Eleanor Roosevelt.

-There is no value in life except what you choose to place in it, and there is no happiness anywhere except that which you carry yourself.-Henry David Thoreau.

-Friends show their love in times of trouble, not of happiness.-Euripides.

-There is only one way to happiness and that is to stop worrying about things that are beyond the reach of your will.-Epithet.

-Joy is a network of love through which you can trap souls.-Mother Teresa.

-Find a situation in which your work gives you as much happiness as your free time.-Pablo Picasso.

-Sometimes your joy can be the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.-Thich Nhat Hanh.

-Happiness does not depend on external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.-Dale Carnegie.

-Happiness is something that each one carries in himself, without realizing it.-Ugo Betti.

-If we stopped trying to be happy, we could have a good time.-Edith Wharton.

-Only for the happy, tears are a luxury.-Thomas Moore.

-Be happy with what you have and are, be generous to both, and you will not have to pursue happiness.-William E. Gladstone.

-The secret of happiness is to admire without wanting.-Carl Sandburg.

-Three great essentials for happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to look forward to.-Joseph Addison.

-If your happiness depends on what someone else does, I guess you have a problem.-Richard Bach.

-People with many interests, live not only longer, but happier.-George Matthew Allen.

-Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.-Denis Waitley.

-The man just likes to tell his problems; He does not like to calculate his happiness.-Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

-Try to make at least one person happy every day.-Lawrence G. Lovasik.

-Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.-Leo Tolstoy.

-There are two things to pursue in life: first, get what you want, and after that, enjoy it.-Logan Pearsall Smith.

-Happiness is an inside job.-William Arthur Ward.

-The first recipe for happiness: avoid meditating long in the past.-Andre Maurois.

-Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.-George Washington.

-A positive thought is like a seed that sows positivity so that everyone can reap.-Miriam Muhammad.

-When every day is the same, it is because man has stopped perceiving the good things that arise in his life every time the Sun crosses the sky.-Paulo Coelho.

-Happiness exists on earth, and it is gained through the prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the Universe and constant practice of generosity.-José Martí.

-If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.-Dalai Lama.

-Most people prefer to have the certainty of being unhappy, than to risk being happy.-Dr. Robert Anthony.

-The happiest people are not those who receive more, but those who give more.-H. Jackson Brown, Jr..

-Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.-Richard Bach.

-True happiness consists in the full use of one's power and talent.-John W. Gardner.

-The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others happy.-Robert Green Ingersoll.

-The satisfaction of one's own curiosity is one of the sources of happiness in life.-Linus Pauling.

-It is more appropriate for a man to laugh at life than to lament.-Seneca.

-Be happy during this time. This moment is your happiness.-Omar Khayyam.

-Men always forget that human happiness is a disposition of the mind and not a condition of circumstances.-John Locke.

-A more compassionate mind, with a greater sense of concern for the welfare of others, is the source of happiness.-Dalai Lama.

-Life in common between people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.-George Sand.

-The knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.-George Santayana.

-The key to being happy is knowing that you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go..

-Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.-Sarah McLachlan.

-Many people miss out on their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they never stopped to enjoy it.-William Feather.

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

-The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily need happiness.-William Saroyan.

-Joy is the philosopher's stone that turns everything to gold.-Franklin D. Roosevelt.

-One sure way to lose happiness is to want it at the expense of anything else.-Bette Davis.

-Do not speak of your happiness to someone less fortunate than you.-Plutarco.

-Because you get more joy from giving joy to others, you should spend a good deal of time thinking about the happiness you are capable of giving.-Eleanor Roosevelt.

-Do not allow your happiness to depend on someone, because that person will not always be as you think.-Albert Einstein.

-Happiness is a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.-Benjamin Spock.

-The only way to multiply happiness is to divide it.-Paul Scherer.

-Happiness is inside, not outside; It does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.-Henry Van Dyke.

-Laughter is poison for fear.-George R.R. Martin.

-Everyone wants to live high up on the mountain, but all the happiness and growth happens while you're climbing it.-Andy Rooney.

-Happiness in intelligent people is the weirdest thing I know.-Ernest Hemingway.

-Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.-John Lenon.

-A man is as miserable as he thinks he is.-Seneca.

-There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.-Thich Nhat Hanh.

-If there were more people in the world who want their own happiness, than those who want the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise.-Bertrand Russell.

-Happiness is a form of courage.-Holbrook Jackson.

-Considering how the world is, a happy day is almost a miracle.-Paulo Coelho.

-Happiness is the state of consciousness that comes from the achievement of one's own values. -Ayn Rand.

-Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the furthest reaches of which we are capable.-Leo Rosten.

-What you do not want to be done to you, do not do to others.-Confucius.

-Man must seek what is right and let happiness come by itself.-Johann Pestalozzi.

-The people who make us happy are the lovely gardeners who make our souls flourish.-Marcel Proust.

-The happiness of society is the end of government.-John Adams.

-There is more to life than increasing your speed.-Mahatma Gandhi.

-Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.-Shahrukh Khan.

-Security is a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is a daring adventure.-Hellen Keller.

-Happiness does not come as a result of getting something we do not have, but of recognizing and appreciating what we have.-Frederick Keonig.

-You will never be happy if you keep looking for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.-Albert Camus.

-There are people who can do everything right except one thing - stop telling unhappy people about their happiness.-Mark Twain.

-The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal mistakes, but by the repetition of small destructive acts.-Ernest Dimmest.

-The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man makes it grow under his feet.-James Oppenheim.

-The pursuit of happiness is one of the main sources of unhappiness.-Eric Hoffer.

-Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered.-Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.

-We don't stop playing because we grow up; We grow because we stop playing.-George Bernard Shaw.

-Happiness must be cultivated. It is not something that can be abandoned or it will become weeds.-Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

-Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.-Confucius.

-If you are not happy in a place, chances are that you are not happy in any place.-Ernie Banks.

-Of all the forms of caution, caution with love is perhaps the most fatal to happiness.-Bertrand Russell.

-You can choose to be happy. There is going to be stress in your life, but it is your choice whether you will let it affect you or not.-Valerie Bertinelli.

-Just do what needs to be done. It may not be happiness, but it is greatness.-George Bernard Shaw.

-All happiness depends on courage and work.-Honoré de Balzac.

-Fortify yourself with joy, because it is an impregnable fortress.-Epitheto.

-The happiest man in the world is one who knows how to recognize the merits of others and can rejoice in the good of others as if it were his own.-Goethe.

-A great effort for great reasons is the best definition of a happy life.-William Ellery Channing.

-Independence is happiness.-Susan B. Anthony.

-Happiness is beneficial to the body, but it is pain that develops the powers of the mind.-Marcel Proust.

-Happiness is right in front of you if you pay attention and practice gratitude.-Brene Brown.

-You are rich or poor according to what you are, not according to what you have.-Henry Ward Beecher.

-Happiness is not a prize, but a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment, but a result.-Robert G. Ingersoll.

-There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.-Maria Mitchell.

-Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.-Heraclitus.

-Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.-Dr. Seuss.

-Happiness does not consist in always doing what you want, but in always having wanted to do what you do.-Leon Tolstoy.

-We do not find fulfillment in the pursuit of happiness, it is in the happiness of the pursuit.-Denis Waitley.

-You are happier while you make the greatest contribution.-Robert F. Kennedy.

-If you have not learned about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.-Nana Mouskouri.

-Gratitude is a vaccine, an antioxidant, and an antiseptic.-John Henry Jowett.

-Being without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.-Bertrand Russell.

-Most of our happiness or misfortune depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.-Martha Washington.

-My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.-Michael J. Fox.

-Marriage is the most natural state of man, the state in which you will find solid happiness.-Benjamin Frankin.

-Enjoy your life without comparing it with that of others.-Marquis de Condorcet.

-If you look for happiness in the world, you will find it in the end, because the world is round and will take you back to your own door.-Robert Brault.

-The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.-Bertrand Russell.

-The only joy in the world is to start.-Cesare Pavese.

-Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.-Mildred Barthel.

-It is never too late to have a happy childhood.-Berke Breathed.

-Happiness is a how, not a what. It is a talent, not an object.-Herman Hesse.

-The secret of joy is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and being able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.-Lin Yutang.

-People do not realize if it is winter or summer when they are happy.-Anton Chekhov.

-The true meaning of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in the details of everyday life.-William Morris.

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