Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark Twain

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.
Mark Twain

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
Mark Twain

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Mark Twain

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

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark Twain

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Mark Twain

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too.
Mark Twain

You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.
Bette Davis

True happiness is not attained through selfgratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller

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

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

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

The supreme happiness of live is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo

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

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
Mother Theresa

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
Jean de La Bruyere

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

Of cheerfulness, or a good temper the more it is spent, the more of it remains.
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Welcome to HappyQuotes.net, the haven of all things positive! Though I have tons of quotations on happiness to share with you, I’m compelled to include only 10 quotes per post and will add new posts at least every other day.

Why? I believe these quotes are worthless if you’re just reading it.  We all should digest it, understand its depth in its simplest form, and most of all APPLY them to our daily lives, both in personal and professional setting. Only then can we change our lives for the better. I hope you understand my point. If not, no worries!

Without much ado, here are the first 10 happy quotes to set the ball rolling:

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. Don Herold

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. - Jacques Prévert

Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections. – Author Unknown

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. - Robert Frost

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

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

Be happy. It’s one way of being wise. - Sidonie Gabrielle

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Happiness is always a by – product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. - Robertson Davies

You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It’s your life. - Ethan Embry

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Happiness is a conscious choice

Happiness is like a butterfly

Happiness is not a goal

The pursuit of happiness is ridiculous

Happiness is a Swedish sunset

Happiness is so hard to define

Happiness always looks small

Love yourself before you love another

Happy quotes about life

Happy quotes to live by

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Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself. – Alice Walker

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. – Francesca Reigler

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren’t happy in one place, chances are you won’t be happy anyplace. – Ernie Banks

I’m going to smile and make you think I’m happy, I’m going to laugh, so you don’t see me cry, I’m going to let you go in style, and even if it kills me- I’m going to smile

Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy. – Dale Carnegie

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. – Charles Kingsley

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. – Marcus Aurelius

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. – Epicurus

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. – G. K. Chesterton

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed. – Bertrand Russell

He alone is great and happy who requires neither to command nor to obey in order to secure his being of some importance in this world. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. – Tom Bodett

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy. – Author Unknown

The best way to make children good is to make them happy. – Oscar Wilde

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. – Susan Polis Schutz

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human enough hope to make you happy. –Author Unknown

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. – Hugh Downs

To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. – Helen Rowland

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. – Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens

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

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. – Epicurus

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

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

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

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. – Author Unknown

All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming – a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness. – Antoine de Saint – Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society. – Charles Gow

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

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

You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness. – Julia Roberts

When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy. – Oscar Wilde

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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it. – William Feather

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. – Johnny Carson

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. – J.D. Salinger

Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. – François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

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

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it. – C.P. Snow

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. – Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. – Author Unknown

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. – Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? – Albert Camus

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

You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you’ll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance. – Lavetta Sue Wegman

Happiness is the natural flower of duty. – Phillips Brooks

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God. – Jean Ingelow

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty – four crowded hours of the day. – W. Beran Wolfe

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

Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other. – Norman Bradburn

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. – Josh Billings

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. – Charles Kingsley

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

When a man has lost all happiness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. – Sophocles

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. – Hosea Ballou

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. – Charles Caleb Colton

Some pursue happiness, others create it. – Author Unknown

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. – Epictetus

Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment. – Author Unknown

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

If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that’s enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. – Antoine de Saint – Exupéry, The Little Prince

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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. – Freya Stark, The Journey’s Echo

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy? – Leslie Caron

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. – Robert Brault

On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. – William R. Inge

I hate being happy. It pisses me off. Because I know if I try to grab it, it will slip away, like one of those goddamn water snakes. And I hate just looking. I always try to grab. – D.H. Mondfleur

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. – Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956

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

Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

When you’re really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights – and flowers will bloom on a barren land. – Grey Livingston

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