50 Quotes About Happiness & Love That Will Make You Smile
Inspirational Quotes About Happiness & Love
Happy quotes have the power to make you feel re-energized and put a smile on your face. And who wouldn’t want that?
Below is an inspiring collection of quotes about love (of self and others) and living a happy life. Because sometimes, we all need a little reminder – in the words of a wise quote:
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“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” Abraham Lincoln
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“The happiness you feel is in direct proportion with the love you give.” Oprah Winfrey
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“There is no path to happiness – happiness is the path.” Gautama Buddha
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“Being happy isn’t having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it’s about stringing together all the little things.” Ann Brashares
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“Love is when the other persons happiness is more important than your own.” H. Jackson Brown Jr
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“And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.” Paul McCartney
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“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” Roy Croft
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“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” Robert A. Heinlein
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“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” Omar Khayyam
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“Happiness is only real when shared.” Jon Krakaur
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“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” Jim Rohn
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“The love we give away is the only love we keep.” Elbert Hubbard
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“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” James Baldwin
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“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” Dr Seuss
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“It is only possible to live happily ever after on a daily basis.” Margaret Bonnano
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“Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.” Beyonce
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“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.” Erich Fromm
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“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” Mahatma Gandhi
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“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” Morrie Schwartz
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“In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.” Theodor Reik
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“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” Maya Angelou
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“There are so many beautiful reasons to be happy.” Unknown
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“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart.” Helen Keller
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“A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.” Bette Davis
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“Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window — or break down a door.” Brooke Shields
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“Love is a friendship set to music.” Joseph Campbell
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“The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of every day.” Unknown
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“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” Lao Tzu
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“If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.” Maya Angelou
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“Happiness is not a goal … it’s a by-product of a life well lived.” Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.” Oscar Wilde
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“The best kiss is the one that has been exchanged a thousand times between the eyes before it reaches the lips.” Unknown
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“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” Oscar Wilde
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“Maybe it’s not about the happy ending. Maybe it’s about the story.” Unknown
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“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” Dalai Lama
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“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” Marcel Proust
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“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.” Lao Tzu
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“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” Friedrich Nietzsche
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“When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.” Leo Tolstoy
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“When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” John Lennon
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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
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“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
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“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” Dalai Lama
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“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” Robert A. Heinlein
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“On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do.” Eckhart Tolle
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“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
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“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.” George Sand
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“Happiness is not the absence of problems; but the ability to deal with them.” Jack Brown
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“If being happy is important to you, try this instead of regretting all you lack, celebrate all you’ve got.” Brian Vaszily
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These are beautiful quotes. who couldn’t love them. I used them in class and everybody appreciated them. how did you find all these? they made my day
Excellent job of putting together some powerfully motivating quotes to jump-start the mind and spirit of entrepreneurs.
These sure can help in some tough times , thanks
You have shared beautiful quotes with us. It helps to heal and feel motivated.
Love these quotes! They are so inspiring and remind me to appreciate the little things in life. Thank you for sharing!