200 Choose Happiness Quotes for Building a Happy Life
Happiness is a free gift from nature to humanity. Make use of these choose happiness quotes to cheer yourself up, no matter what you’re facing.
Choose Happiness Quotes
In times like this, we have to choose between happiness or sulking in gloominess. We have gathered these quotes on choosing happiness to help you make the right decision.
1. “Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself.” Give yourself peace of mind. “You deserve to be happy.” — Hannah Arendt
2. “You cannot control all of what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward all of what happens to you… You can choose to be happy and grateful rather than disappointed and bitter by focusing on how it could have turned out worse but didn’t, rather than how it could have turned out better but didn’t.” – Brian Tracy
3. “Happiness is always there.” You have to choose to see it. “There’s no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars.” – Carrie Hope Fletcher
4. “Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.” — Joel Osteen
5. “If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.”— Mandy Hale
6. “I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.” – Paulo Coelho
7. “If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself in a condition conducive to your goal.” – Norman Vincent Peale
8. “Learn to enjoy every minute of your life.” Be happy now. “Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future.” – Earl Nightingale
9. “Be so happy that when others look at you, they become happy too.” – Harbhajan Singh Yogi
10. “Trust your own instincts; go inside, and follow your heart.” right from the start. Go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. “As I’ve learned, that’s the path to happiness.” – Lesley Ann Warren
11. “When you get up in the morning, you have two choices—either to be happy or to be unhappy.” “Just choose to be happy.” – Norman Vincent Peale
12. “Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy.” – Hannah Arendt
13. “Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not.” – Valerie Bertinelli
14. “You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old—whatever “the old” means for you.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
15. “The happiness of your 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
16. “No matter what’s happening, choose to be happy. Don’t focus on what’s wrong. Find something positive in your life. Thank God for the small things.” – Joel Osteen
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 joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.”— Russell M. Nelson
19. “Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean
20. “It’s not that life has been easy, perfect, or exactly as expected. I just choose to be happy and grateful no matter how it all turns out. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.” – Albert Einstein
21. “What we choose to focus on and what we choose to ignore—plays in defining the quality of our life.” – Cal Newport
22. “Don’t stay in a bad situation, whether a relationship or a job, out of fear of failure.” It’s not a failure to walk away and choose to be happy. “It takes a lot of courage.” – Danielle Trussoni
23. “If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.”— Norman Vincent Peale
24. “Trust your own instincts, go inside, and follow your heart.” right from the start. Go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. “As I’ve learned, that’s the path to happiness.” — Lesley Ann Warren
25. “Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.” – Ralph Marston
26. “Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally.” – Hannah Bronfman
27. “There will always be obstacles and choices. Your job is to choose which choice leads to the best outcome.” – Germany Kent
28. “It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy.” Losing your cool makes you tired. “Getting angry a lot messes with your health.” – Joyce Meyer
29. “If you want to be happy or if you want to be miserable—either way is your choice. So choose to be happy.” – Debasish Mridha
30. “Happiness already exists in your life. All you need to do is tune into it. And you can start doing that right now.” – Anthon St. Maarten
31. “Your mind is just like your body. It’s a muscle you can train and get better at.”— Rose Namajunas
32. “Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not.”–Valerie Bertinelli
33. “The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”— William James
34. “You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old – whatever “the old” means for you.”— Sarah Ban Breathnach
Choose to Be Happy Quotes
35. “If you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times.” In the kingdom of love, there is no competition; there is no possessiveness or control. “The more love you give away, the more love you will have.” — John O’Donohue
36. “A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.”— Patricia Neal
37. “Don’t forget to tell yourself positive things daily! “You must love yourself internally to glow externally.” — Hannah Bronfman
38. “It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.” — Joyce Meyer
39. “Love yourself. Enough to take the actions required for your happiness. Enough to cut yourself loose from the drama-filled past. Enough to set a high standard for relationships. Enough to feed your mind and body in a healthy manner. Enough to forgive yourself. Enough to move on.”— Steve Maraboli
40. “Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give – pleasure, possessions, power – but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.”— Dada Vaswani
41. “I can choose to be either a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure.” “It’s all a question of how I view my life.” — Paulo Coelho
42. “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”— Carol Burnett
43. “Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.” Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented, and happy attitudes, and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.”— Norman Vincent Peale
44. “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.” “I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.” — Walter Anderson
45. “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
46. “It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.” ~Berke Breathed
47. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” ~Dalai Lama
48. “The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.” ~Doug Larson
49. “There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh
50. “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
51. “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.” ~Thomas Merton
52. “Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.” ~Iris Murdoch
53. “My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate.” ~Thornton Wilder
54. “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
55. “Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” ~Joseph Addison
56. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ~Mahatma Gandhi
57. “But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?” ~Albert Camus
58. “Find a place where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” ~Joseph Campbell
59. “The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” ~Ashley Montagu
60. “One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.” ~Iris Murdoch
61. “I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.” ~Anna Howard Shaw
62. “It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis.” ~Margaret Bonanno
63. “True self-acceptance shows up at that moment when you realize that peace cannot co-exist with war. The moment you choose to stop being your own enemy and to love yourself instead.” – Rebecca Ray
64. “Happiness is a state of mind which leaves you contented about yourself and your life.” — Lorin Hopper
65. “Choose to be happy. That is the only way to find happiness.”
66. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” – Dalai Lama
67. “When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.” ― Shannon L. Alder
68. “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” ~John Barrymore
69. “Joy enters when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offering thanks for all the troubles we don’t have. And be aware, you have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life.” — Angie Karan
Inspirational Quotes
70. “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” — John Barrymore
71. “Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I’ve learned, that’s the path to happiness.”
72. “Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.” – Douglas Jerrold
73. “Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.” – Ralph Marston
74. “There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh
75. “Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy.”
76. “Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad!”- Norm Papernick
77. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” — Epictetus
78. “Waiting for someone else to make you happy is the best way to be sad.” ~Jeffrey Benjamin
79. “The biggest reason for choosing happiness is that there is no reason to choose bitterness.”
80. “The happiness of your 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
81. “Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
82. “My ambition is to be happy.” — Penelope Cruz
83. “Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.” ~Bertrand Russell
84. “How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.” ~Oscar Wilde
85. “The key to happiness is being comfortable in this moment, right here and now.” — Mariam Gates
86. “Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.” ―Alexandre Dumas
87. “Happiness already exists in your life. All you need to do is tune into it. And you can start doing that right now.” – Anthon St. Maarten
88. “Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.” ― Walt Disney
89. “When you are happy, you can forgive a great deal.” ~Princess Diana
90. “Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” ~Joseph Addison
91. “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”
92. “When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.” ~Dalai Lama
93. “Spread love all over the world and in return, you will receive the gift of lifetime happiness.” – Nitin Namdeo
94. “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.” ~Thomas Merton
95. “A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
96. “What’s fulfilling is being happy and being able to help other people. The simple things.” – James Arthur
97. “There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”– Charlotte Bronte
98. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”- Marcus Aurelius
99. “Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.” – Jim Rohn
100. “Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it’s not. It’s all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.” ― Carolyn Crane
101. “He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.” ~Johann von Goethe
102. “If you want to be happy, be.” ― Leo Tolstoy
103. “Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.” — William Butler Yeats
104. “The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware — joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” ~Henry Miller
105. “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” —Thich Nhat Hanh
106. “Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.” ― Charles Dickens
107. Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself. Alice Walker
108. True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. Ben Jonson
109. The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
110. Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. Dalai Lama
111. There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. George Sand
112. The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it. Richard Bach
113. Happiness can exist only in acceptance. George Orwell
114. True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
115. Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open. John Barrymore
116. The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. Henry Ward Beecher
117. Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember. Oscar Levant
118. Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it. Bernard Meltzer
119. I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. Martha Washington
Happiness Quotes and Sayings
120. It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles Spurgeon
121. If you want to be happy, be. Leo Tolstoy
122. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. Helen Keller
123. Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life – a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. Princess Diana
124. Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing. Napoleon Hill
125. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi
126. Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln
127. There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. Epictetus
128. Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
129. Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Guillaume Apollinaire
130. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. Thomas Merton
131. Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature. Dennis Prager
132. Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness. William E. Gladstone
133. Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. Eleanor Roosevelt
134. The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. Carl Sandburg
135. Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. Henry Van Dyke
136. Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels. Bertolt Brecht
137. Happiness is good health and a bad memory. Ingrid Bergman
138. Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. Zhuangzi
139. The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. Andre Maurois
140. Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy. Deepak Chopra
141. Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions. Saul Bellow
142. A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away. Bil Keane
143. I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. J. D. Salinger
144. Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness. Frank Tyger
145. The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo
146. A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
147. How you choose to feel today should not be dependent on others. Anthon St. Maarten
148. To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness. Mary Stuart
149. The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. Albert Ellis
150. Don’t seek happiness. If you seek it, you won’t find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Eckhart Tolle
151. Some pursue happiness – others create it. Helen Rowland
152. Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! Friedrich Nietzsche
153. It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. Dale Carnegie
154. Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself — no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are — completely; the good and the bad — and make changes as YOU see fit — not because you think someone else wants you to be different. Stacey Charter
155. 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
156. It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving. But like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living. George Sand
Happiness Over Everything Quotes
157. 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
158. Nothing has to happen for me to feel good! I feel good because I’m alive! Life is a gift, and I revel in it. Tony Robbins
159. Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself for he shall never cease to be entertained. John Boswell
160. The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living. Walter Rauschbusch
161. Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Joseph Addison
162. The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware — joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. Henry Miller
163. When you finally allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it, you will find you dance with everything. Emanuel
164. Make one person happy each day and in forty years you will have made 14,600 human beings happy for a little time at least. Charles Wiley
165. There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere and leaving it behind them when they go. Faber
166. Happiness is like a plant: It must be watered daily with giving thoughts and actions. Swami Kriyananda
167. Happiness blooms naturally in the hearts of those who are inwardly free. It flows spontaneously, like a mountain spring after April showers, in minds that are contented with simple living. Paramhansa Yogananda
168. Happiness held is the seed. Happiness shared is the flower. John Harrigan
169. The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself. Ellen DeGeneres
170. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Victor Hugo
171. Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. Charles Dickens
172. If you want to find happiness, find gratitude. Steve Maraboli
173. The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others. Ayad Akhtar
174. You have to be willing to get happy about nothing. Andy Warhol
175. There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes. C.S. Lewis
176. You must be the best judge of your own happiness. Jane Austen
177. Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous. Marie Rutkoski
178. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. Ayn Rand
179. Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure. Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness is a Choice Quotes
180. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. Daphne Du Maurier
181. Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them. Steve Maraboli
182. Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
183. I have chosen to be happy because it’s good for my health. Voltaire
184. If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book! Orson Welles
185. I’m a happy person. If you want to be around me, you can either choose to be happy too, or follow the signs to the nearest exit! Sharon Swan
186. If you come at four in the afternoon, I’ll begin to be happy by three. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
187. Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing. Matt Haig
188. I feel like I’ve been split open and stuffed with sunshine. Tahereh Mafi
189. When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you. Shannon L. Alder
190. Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. G.K. Chesterton
191. Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy. Roy T. Bennett
192. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam
193. Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not. Valerie Bertinelli
194. When faced with the choice, choose happy. Valerie Bertinelli
195. The way to happiness; keep your heart free from hate, your mind free from worry, live simply, expect little, give much, scatter sunshine, forget self, and think of others. Norman Vincent Peale
196. Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale
197. Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast. Norman Vincent Peale
198. A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires. Paulo Coelho
199. Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided. Paulo Coelho
200. Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. Mark Twain
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