253 Breathtaking Short Happy Quotes To Lighten Up Your Day

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Reading some short happy quotes can really brighten up your day.

It has the ability to instantly transform your mood.

By reading short happy quotes every day you will train your mind to be happier all of the time.

Being happy has many benefits such as:

Helping to combat stress
Increase life expectancy
Boost your immune system
Protecting your heart

Also, being happy just feels good too doesn’t it!

Let’s jump in and take a look at this collection of short happy quotes.

253 Short Happy Quotes

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration. – Pat Conroy

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. – St. Augustine

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.
Steve Maraboli

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. – Henry Ward Beecher

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

You’ll find happiness when you decide to truly live. – Albert Camus

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. – Eric Hoffer

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. – William Ralph Inge

Value yourself and fight for happiness. – Ayn Rand

Happiness is an inside job. – William Arthur Ward

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do. – Eckhart Tolle

Happiness comes from being satisfied. – Maxime Lagacé

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Marthe Troly-Curtin

It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. – Frank McKinney Hubbard

Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results. – Dennis Waitley

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much. Channing Pollock

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

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. – Confucius

My definition of beauty is happiness. I believe that when you are happy, it shines through and makes you a more attractive and beautiful person! – Bianca Balti

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. – Edith Wharton

Curiosity is constant happiness. – Alice Munrro

You can only have bliss if you don’t chase it. – Henepola Gunaratana

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. – John Stuart Mill

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves. – Lydia M. Child

Happiness is a function of accepting what is. – Werner Erhard

Happiness is a state where nothing is missing. – Naval Ravikant

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness. – Mignon McLaughlin

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

The notion of happiness doesn’t exist in nature, it only exists in your mind. – Maxime Lagacé

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want. – Alan Cohen

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. – Abraham Lincoln

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. – Cynthia Nelms

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. Daphne du Maurier

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. – James Oppenheim

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have. – Zig Ziglar

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. – Albert Camus

Being happy is being satisfied. Being satisfied means accepting. – Maxime Lagacé

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. – Jane Austen

Happiness is the natural flower of duty. – Phillips Brooks

If you want to find happiness, find gratitude. – Steve Maraboli

My family didn’t have a lot of money, and I’m grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness. – Evangeline Lilly

The most valuable thing you can buy to make yourself happy is time. – Maxime Lagacé

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

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
Thomas Jefferson

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

Want to be happy? Find your peace. – Naval Ravikant

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. – Seneca

Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it. – J. Petit Senn

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. – Maxim Gorky

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them. – Anthony de Mello

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abraham Lincoln

It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness. – Richard Branson

Real happiness is not of temporary enjoyment, but is so interwoven with the future that it blesses for ever. – James Lendall Basford

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. – Albert Schweitzer

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

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. –
Leo Tolstoy

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier. – Mother Teresa

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin. – John Lubbock

Find a place where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. – Joseph Campbell

Happiness is created from work and courage. – Honoré de Balzac

I have only two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy. – Allen J. Lefferdink

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. – Ausonius

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. – William Saroyan

Cry and forgiveLet the tears water your seeds of future happiness. – Steve Maraboli

The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. – William Morris

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. – Norm Papernick

Be happy. It’s one way of being wise. – Colette

Happiness will come when we understand that everything is a gift.
Robert Brault

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. – Confucius

The constant happiness is curiosity. – Alice Munro

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

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness. – William E. Gladstone

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

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. – Walter Savage Landor

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness. – Frank Tyger

It’s the most beautiful job in the world to give happiness to people. – Hubert de Givenchy

That’s your unlimited desires that are clouding your peace, your happiness. – Naval Ravikant

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. – Lady Blessington

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

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. – Ernest Hemingway

Being happy means nothing is missing. – Naval Ravikant

Happiness is our key to success. – Albert Schweitzer

We are most alive when we’re in love. – John Updike

The simplest things can bring the most happiness. – Izabella Scorupco

Happiness depends on that which we are attached to. – Baruch Spinoza

I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. – Dalai Lama

The most simple things can bring the most happiness. – Izabella Scorupco

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 Keonig

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. – Freya Stark

Happiness can be found even in the darkest time if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Albus Dumbledore

Happiness comes from one’s own actions. – Dalai Lama XIV

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality. – Seneca

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

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. – George Burns

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. – Doug Larso

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. – Dale Carnegie

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

Happiness will never decrease the more it is shared. – Buddha

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

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life. – Euripides

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are. – Goldie Hawn

Being happy is letting go of what slows you down. – Mike Falzone

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.
Tracy Kidder

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine. – Morris West

Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim, and end of human existence. – Aristotle

Happiness is the default state. It’s what’s there when you remove the sense that something is missing in life. – Naval Ravikant

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not. – George Bernard Shaw

Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack. – Hazelmarie Elliott

To be happy, we must let go of what we thought could bring us happiness. – Robert Brault

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. – Charles Dickens

Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive. – Elbert Hubbard

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. – Baruch Spinoza

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. – Immanuel Kant

Happiness is only real when shared. – Jon Krakauer

Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life, and good friends.
Divyanka Tripathi

Happiness is not doing fun things. Happiness is doing meaningful things. – Maxime Lagacé

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. – Albert Camus

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it. – Richard Bach

Independence is happiness. – Susan B. Anthony

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. – Jim Roh

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. – Mark Twain

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

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

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. – Bertrand Russel

Living the life you dream of is the biggest adventure of your life. – Oprah Winfrey

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. – Mark Twain

Happiness… consists in giving, and in serving others. – Henry Drummond

Saying yes to happiness means learning to say not to the things and people that stress you out. Thema Davis

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.
Robert Brault

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. – George Sand

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

Happiness is always the serendipitous result of looking for something else. – Dr. Idel Dreimer

It’s my life mission to thrive and live with passion, humor, and style. – Maya Angelou

Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy. – Deepak Chopra

Now and then, it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. – Guillaume Apollinaire

Doing what you were born to do… That’s the way to be happy. – Agnes Martin

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. – Albert Einstein

Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy. – J.M. Reinoso

Seek it outside and you’ll be exhausted. Seek it inside you’ll find a path. – Maxime Lagacé

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. – W. H. Auden

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life. – Henrik Ibsen

Being happy is not the only happiness. – Alice Walker

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.
Gretta Brooker Palmer

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. – Charles Spurgeon

Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy. – Dr. Robert Anthony

Happiness is a well-balanced combination of love, labour, and luck. – Mary Wilson Little

Be happy. It really annoys negative people. – Ricky Gervais

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. – Channing Pollock

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values. Ayn Rand

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. – John Lennon

It’s enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back. – Adrian Grenier

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances. – J. Donald Walters

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you. –
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

There is more to life than increasing its speed. – Mahatma Gandhi

You, of all people, deserve a happy ending. – Sylvain Reynard

Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness. – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. – Helen Keller

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. – Thomas Merton

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self. – Joseph Addison

If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more. – Roy T. Bennett

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

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. – John Gunther

Simplicity makes me happy. – Alicia Keys

Happiness is found in virtuous activities. – Aristotle

Happiness is a warm puppy. – Charles M. Schulz

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.
Taisen Deshimaru

The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage. – Thucydides

Life finds its purpose and fulfilment in the expansion of happiness. – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Happy girls are the prettiest. – Audrey Hepburn

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. – Joseph Roux

Being happy is all that matters. – Audrey Hepburn

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. – William James

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. – James M. Barrie

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. – Don Marquis

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. – Benjamin Franklin

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. – Buddha

When ambition ends, happiness begins. – Thomas Merton

No medicine cures what happiness cannot. – Gabriel García Márquez

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.
Robert S. Lynd

Whoever is happy will make others happy. – Anne Frank

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

When you’re happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness – and that’s a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life. – Suze Orman

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. – Seneca

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. – Jonathan Safran Foer

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it. – Lou Holtz

Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory. – Albert Schweitzer

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others. – Aesop

I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success. – Diego Val

The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment. – Marie Kondo

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.
Prem Rawat

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. – Chuck Palahniuk

Happiness is the best makeup. – Drew Barrymore

It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. – Lucille Ball

Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.- Shawn Achor

To be happy, we must depend on ourselves. – Aristotle

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon. – Winnie the Pooh

I am happy because I’ve loved the world more than myself. – Sri Chinmoy

The only joy in the world is to begin. – Cesare Pavese

Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy. – Roy T. Bennett

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy. – Wayne Gretzky

Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy. – Milton Erickson

Being happy never goes out of style. – Lily Pulitzer

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

To be loved for who we are is our greatest happiness in life. – Victor Hugo

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way. – Thich Nhat Hanh

Finding happiness is easy: stop being busy. Maxime Lagacé

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

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. – Epictetus

Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle

Happiness is a state of activity. – Aristotle

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions; it is governed by our mental attitude. – Dale Carnegie

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world. – Orhan Pamuk

Happiness is a form of courage. – Holbrook Jackson

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight. – Epictetus

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

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. – Joseph Wood Krutch

Happiness is usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. – Thomas Szasz

I always was a rich person because moneys not related to happiness. – Paulo Coelho

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

You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes. – Lauren Oliver

You’ll lose your happiness every moment you’re angry. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive. – Joanne Harris

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. – Margaret Lee Runbec

If you want to be happy, be. – Leo Tolstoy

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens. – Douglas Jerrold

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison

You do not find the happy life. You make it. – Camilla E. Kimball

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. – Benjamin Franklin

Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith. – Kareena Kapoor Khan

Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things. – Walt Disney

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. – Albert Einstein

Happiness ain’t a thing in itself – it’s only a contrast with something that ain’t pleasant. – Mark Twain

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

One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows. – Chinese proverb

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. – Anne Frank

We forge the chains we wear in life. – Charles Dickens

Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness.
Christian Dior

I’m happy. Which often looks crazy. – David Henry Hwang

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. – Mother Teresa

Happiness is in the world but often comes incidentally – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened – Dr. Seuss

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. – Omar Khayyam

People should find happiness in the little things, like family. – Amanda Bynes

Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour. – Walt Whitman

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.
William James

The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. – V.S. Pritchett

To Sum Up

Hopefully you have enjoyed this huge list of short happy quotes.

Whenever, you need a pick-me-up, have a read through.

Better still, print your favourites out and put them round your house.

If there are any you think I’ve missed, drop them in the comments below.

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