30 Quotes Guaranteed to Make You Happier

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Sometimes you need more than just a helping hand to get you through life’s toughest days. Happy quotes can help greatly. Just a few happy quotes can do what most people are unable to. Born Realist brings to you 30 quotes that will make you wise and happy, at the same time:



Short Happy Quotes:

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Context: People have a habit of wistfully thinking about the things they want and never really taking action to pursue them. You need to work hard to get what you want in life!

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.  -William James, short happy quotes
Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive. -Elbert Hubbard, short happy quotes
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. -Ludwig Jacobowski, short happy quotes
Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. -Guillaume Apollinaire, short happy quotes
Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness. -Frank Tyger, short happy quotes

Happy Inspirational Quotes:

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Context: Some of us like to see the best people, however, not all people are worth trusting. Just because someone has a different opinion from you doesn’t make them your enemy and not everyone who helps you is your friend.

There is more to life than increasing its speed. -Mahatma Gandhi, Happy Inspirational Quotes
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 that has been opened for us. -Helen Keller, Happy Inspirational Quotes
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it. Lou Holtz, Happy Inspirational Quotes
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self. Joseph Addison, Happy Inspirational Quotes
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.  -Marthe Troly-Curtin, Happy Inspirational Quotes

Quotes about Happiness and Love:

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Context: Just because times are tough now doesn’t mean they are going to be tough forever. Keep holding on to hope!

I am very happy because I have conquered myself and not the world. I am very happy because I have loved the world and not myself.  -Sri Chinmoy, Quotes about Happiness and Love
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. -Colette, Quotes about Happiness and Love
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. -Maya Angelou, Quotes about Happiness and Love
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. -Thomas Jefferson, Quotes about Happiness and Love
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. -Anton Chekhov, Quotes about Happiness and Love

Quotes about Happiness and Love:

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Context: Being original is the start to everything, you don’t need to be a copy to achieve great things, in fact, copying someone else is exactly what’s going to hold you back!

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. -Confucius, Cute Happy Quotes
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. -Mark Twain, Cute Happy Quotes
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. -Dalai Lama, Cute Happy Quotes
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. -Oprah Winfrey, Cute Happy Quotes 
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -Ernest Hemingway, Cute Happy Quotes 

Funny Happy Quotes:

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Context: Just because life has changed you, doesn’t mean that it hasn’t changed you for the better, sometimes our bad experiences guide us towards true happiness.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. -Mahatma Gandhi, Funny Happy Quotes
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. -Dalai Lama, Funny Happy Quotes
In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom. -Buddha, Funny Happy Quotes
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. -Buddha, Funny Happy Quotes

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, Funny Happy Quotes

True Happiness Quotes:

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Context: You’ll never be truly happy and in harmony with the people you surround yourself with unless you learn how to be tolerant.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.  -Audrey Hepburn, True Happiness Quotes
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. -Friedrich Nietzsche, True Happiness Quotes
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. -St. Augustine, True Happiness Quotes
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness. -Ayn Rand, True Happiness Quotes
Happiness depends upon ourselves. -Aristotle, True Happiness Quotes

I am Happy Quotes:

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Context: Just because the path is hard and long doesn’t mean its fruitless, every obstacle you climb over will become a source of your strength.

If you want to be happy, be. -Leo Tolstoy, I am Happy.
The constant happiness is curiosity. -Alice Munro, I am Happy.
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise. -Colette, I am Happy.
Being happy is not the only happiness. -Alice Walker, I am Happy.
Enjoy it. Because it’s happening. -Stephen Chbosky, I am Happy.
No medicine cures what happiness cannot. -Gabriel García Márquez, I am Happy.
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. -Seneca, I am Happy.

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