31 Timeless Quotes About Happiness and Contentment

 

Quotes about happiness have helped millions of people find more joy and peace in their lives. We all want to be happy, but sometimes it feels hard to find or keep that good feeling in our busy world.

This collection is made for anyone who feels stressed by daily life, has trouble staying satisfied, or just wants to think more positively.

If you’re a busy worker trying to find balance, a student dealing with tough times, or someone going through big changes, these wise words will give you daily inspiration and useful tips to feel better overall.

In this guide, you’ll get 31 handpicked quotes written by great thinkers, writers, and wise people who figured out how to be truly happy. 

We picked exactly 31 quotes intentionally—one for each day of the month. Instead of giving you too many choices, this focused plan lets you really think about and practice one important lesson each day. This creates real, lasting good changes in how you see things and how you feel every day.

 

 

31 Quotes About Happiness and Contentment

 

1.  “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” – Dalai Lama

   

2. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer

4. “If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.” – Chinese Proverb

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

   

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

 

7. “Happiness is not having what you want. It is appreciating what you have.” – Unknown

8. “Happiness is the best makeup.” – Drew Barrymore

 

   

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

 

10. “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

 

   

11. “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

 

   

12. “Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.” – Unknown

   

13. “Happiness is a habit – cultivate it.” – Elbert Hubbard

 

   

14. “Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.” – Aeschylus

 

   

15. “Happiness is an inside job.” – William Arthur Ward

 

   

16. “Happiness is found when you stop comparing yourself to other people.” – Unknown

   

17. “Happiness is a journey, not a destination.” – Buddha

 

   

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

19. “Happiness is not the result of what we have, but how we live.” – Unknown

 

   

20. “Happiness is not what happens to us, but how we perceive what happens to us.” – Unknown

 

   

21. “Happiness is not out there, it’s in you.” – Unknown

 

22. “The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they make the best of everything.” – Unknown

23. “Happiness is contagious. Surround yourself with happy people.” – Unknown

24. “Happiness is an inside job. Don’t assign anyone else that much power over your life.” – Mandy Hale

 

 

25. “Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep.” – Charles M. Schulz

  

26. “Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.” – Ralph Marston

 

 

27. “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” – Jim Rohn

 

   

28. “Happiness is not the absence of problems; it’s the ability to deal with them.” – Steve Maraboli

 

   

29. “Happiness is a warm puppy.” – Charles M. Schulz

 

   

30. “Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.” – Jim Rohn

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

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