33 Happy Quotes For A Positive and Joyful Mind

Happiness is a state of mind. It always and only depends on the quality of your thoughts and your perception of the world around you. These 33 carefully handpicked happy quotes remind you what to focus on, what matters in life, and why enjoying it in joy and gratitude is the surest way to feel happy. 

There are always (at least) two ways we can look at things.

Therefore, understand this: whether you feel joy or misery, love or hate, anger or calm – it all depends on how you process your thoughts and emotions and how you perceive any situation. 

Remember that your life will always find ways to challenge you, and most of the things that happen on the outside are out of your control. 

However, what is happening within you is always your choice. 

Happiness, to me, is a conscious spiritual practice where you deliberately choose to focus on the goodness in your life while understanding that facing roadblocks along the way is part of the process. 

I hope these happy quotes will uplift your mindset, bring gratitude into your space, and make you feel good. 

Happy quotes for a joyful mind 

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.” – Abraham Lincoln 

“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 it.” – Dale Carnegie 

“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” – W. P. Kinsella 

“Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson 

“Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.” – Walt Disney 

“There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path.” – Buddha 

“When you focus on the good, the good gets better.” – Abraham Hicks 

“We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one.” – Tom Hiddleston

“Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.” – Marianne Williamson

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” – Epictetus 

“You don’t find a happy life. You make it.” – Camila E. Kimball 

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” – Buddha

“Joy is a natural phenomenon. Misery is your creation.” – Sadhguru 

“True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Misery might love company, but so does joy. And joy throws much better parties.” – Billy Ivey 

“Joy is not in things. It is in us.” – Richard Wagner 

Happy quotes for a loving heart 

“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” – Robert Morley 

“Wouldn’t it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.” – Alan Cohen

”The best revenge is to have enough self-worth not to seek it.” – Courtney Jarvis

“The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go.” – Dodinsky 

“If we can just let go and trust that things will work out the way they’re supposed to, without trying to control the outcome, then we can begin to enjoy the moment more fully. The joy of the freedom it brings becomes more pleasurable than the experience itself.” – Goldie Hawn

“A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.” – Mother Teresa

“Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.” – Joseph Campbell

“I shall take the heart… for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.” – L. Frank Baum 

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

“The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.” – Gabrielle Roy

“The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.” – Douglas Wood

“When you love what you have, you have everything you need.” – unknown 

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” – Jonathan Safran Foer 

“Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.” – Rumi 

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