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Is there a single word that describes the state of not being happy with something but having to be satisfied with it?

Example:

I wanted to split the video into small segments. Programming this would take a lot of time, as there’s no managed interface for C# to the multi media SDK. So, instead of doing it programmatically and wasting time, I’ll have to be satisfied with using the Nero application.

asked Aug 21, 2011 at 11:33

AviAvi

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Given the context, I would suggest «make do with» as in «I’ll have to make do with using Nero.» This suggests the solution to your problem is suboptimal but workable. I would argue that to «resign oneself» to something is a bit too strong for this case. One might resign oneself to a life of thankless toil, or to never achieving one’s Olympic dreams, whereas one might make do with a pair of flip flops that are too large. A suboptimal software solution seems closer to the second case.

answered Aug 21, 2011 at 15:16

jelajela

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In English, you can resign yourself to something. This site explains:

Meaning: If you resign yourself to something, you accept that it’s true and that there’s nothing you can do to change it.

For example:

Margaret has resigned herself to the fact that her company won’t survive, and she’s started looking for a job.

I admitted that my dream of being a famous movie star would never come true, and I resigned myself to a life in the suburbs with everyone else.

So if you resign yourself to something, then you aren’t happy with it but you accept it as is. The associated state of being is resigned.

answered Aug 21, 2011 at 12:02

simchonasimchona

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Acquiesce would be the word you are looking for.

To acquiesce is to accept something reluctantly but without protest.

For example:

Avi didn’t want to go see that movie, but acquiesced
to Betty, who really wanted to see the film.

answered Aug 21, 2011 at 12:07

RGW1976RGW1976

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Also to settle for something.

answered Aug 21, 2011 at 19:12

Henrik NHenrik N

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I’d also suggest suffice:

To be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be equal to the end proposed; to be adequate.

In the sentence:

…the Nero application will have to suffice.

answered Aug 21, 2011 at 21:03

jtbandesjtbandes

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Acceptance is the willingness to live with an unpleasant situation.

answered Aug 21, 2011 at 11:43

Tolerate is another option.

Daniel

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answered Aug 21, 2011 at 15:07

You can also «cope» or «put up» with Nero.

answered Aug 21, 2011 at 14:50

It’s a bit informal perhaps, but I tend to use «swallow.» If I don’t like it, but have to accept it, I swallow it, or, even more informally, choke it down.

answered Aug 21, 2011 at 15:05

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I am unfamiliar with this figure of speech. «Nero» clearly, from your explanation, represents the concept of non-optimal choice when a choice must be made. Sounds like politics. Thus, depending on the context what you are referring to is a compromise

answered Aug 21, 2011 at 18:28

xtianxtian

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You could say that you will «grudgingly use Nero».

RegDwigнt

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answered Aug 22, 2011 at 13:18

The expression grin and bear it according to the online dictionary freeonlinedictionary.com means:

grin and bear it

to put up with something unpleasant without
complaining He doesn’t like his present job but he’ll just have to
grin and bear it till he finds another.

answered Aug 22, 2011 at 7:49

There is an informal expression «you’ll have to lump it» which means more or less what you want. There is a further (stylistically neutral) expression «to put up with something» which is the same, e,g «you’ll use have to put up with it».

answered Aug 21, 2011 at 14:33

‘To bite the bullet’ is also a useful phrase in informal situations — here’s the definition from Wikipedia:

To «bite the bullet» is to endure a painful or otherwise unpleasant situation that is seen as unavoidable.

So, instead of wasting my time trying to program the interface, I’ll bite the bullet and use Nero.

answered Aug 22, 2011 at 15:42

HanneleHannele

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I’m resigned to doing it this way.

I’ll resign myself do doing it this way.

simchona

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answered Aug 22, 2011 at 16:44

patrickpatrick

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Maybe, «be patient» with something?

answered Aug 21, 2011 at 20:44

AnixxAnixx

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You might consider the word «inured». Generally one speaks of becoming inured to a persistent annoyance that one is unable to stop. «I have become inured to my neighbours’ loud parties.»

Basically, «have learned to endure». It’s less suitable for a shorter-term issue, like an undesirable expediency.

answered Aug 21, 2011 at 21:07

Satisfy + Suffice = Satisfice. I remember it from SmashingMagazine’s book #1 which talked about it in a chapter about UI and decision making. Not a real dictionary word, but it is widely used.

In decision making, satisficing explains the tendency to select the first option that meets a given need or select the option that seems to address most needs rather than the “optimal” solution. (Wikipedia)

While technically it talks about the process of finding the most optimal solution being too costly as the reason for choosing a less-optimal solution, I think it can still be used in your context.

answered Aug 22, 2011 at 0:04

shesekshesek

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The word «suffer» indicates something painful or tedious. The word muddle indicates bumbling or confusion. Depending upon what exact meaning you wish, one or the other may suffice.

So, instead of doing it programmatically and wasting time, I’ll have to suffer with using the Nero application.

So, instead of doing it programmatically and wasting time, I’ll have to be muddle through using the Nero application.

answered Aug 22, 2011 at 11:35

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but I think that if I could

with you… that I could

be happy

with my life.

что если бы я мог

быть

с тобой… то я мог бы

быть счастлив

всю мою жизнь.

I will come to you in Moscow. I have

never

been happy, I am unhappy now, and I shall never be happy—never!

I have

never

been happy, I am unhappy now, and I shall never be happy—never!

If he told you, he probably figured that you would never be happy again.

That I would never be happy with anyone else as long as you walked the earth.

The result of this imbalance between our material and non-material needs can never be happy for mankind.

Результаты этого дисбаланса между нашими материальными и нематериальными потребностями никогда не могут быть позитивными для человечества.

Now a girl like Odette, she could never be happy living off a meager 6-figure salary like yours.

А такая девушка, как Одетт, не могла бы счастливо жить на скудную 6- значную зарплату как у вас.

You will

never

be happy with that woman.

Я никогда больше не обрету счастья.

Then I will

never

be happy, whatever I do.

Если я не смогу этого сделать, то никогда не буду счастлива.

I will

never

be happy. Not while you’re alive.

We will get so rich, we will

never

be happy again!

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„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.“

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— Albert Camus

Источник: «Intuitions» (October 1932), published in Youthful Writings (1976)

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Be Happy Quotes and Sayings

1. “Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.” —Buddha

2. “One joy scatters a hundred griefs.” —Chinese Proverb

3. “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” —Mark Twain

4. “Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.” —Hosea Ballou

5. “If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.” —Roy T. Bennett

6. “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.” —Mark Twain

7. “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” —Ayn Rand

8. “Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.” —Mildred Barthel

9. “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” —Roy T. Bennett

10. “There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.” —Lady Blessington

11. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” —Marcus Aurelius

12. “Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.” —Hazelmarie Elliott

13. “Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking.” —H.W. Byles

14. “Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.” —Gretta Brooker Palmer

15. “Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” —Guillaume Apollinaire

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

17. “Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.” —Bernard Meltzer

18. “A sure way to lose happiness, is to want it at the expense of everything else.” —Bette Davis

19. “Whoever is happy will make others happy.” —Anne Frank

20. “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” —Steve Maraboli

21. “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” —Chuck Palahniuk

22. “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” —Gabriel García Márquez

23. “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” —George Sand

24. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” —Mother Theresa

25. “Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” —Helen Keller

26. “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” —William James

27. “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” —Charles Spurgeon

28. “An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.” —Lydia M. Child

29. “If you want to be happy, be.” —Leo Tolstoy

30. “Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” —H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

31. Be happy and Smile

This is a number one rule for all of us. In order for us to be happy, we should smile. A smile is a curve in our body that shows a person’s sexiness.

32. Create your own Happiness

Originally posted by Jarrod Inspires

All of us are responsible for our own happiness. We can’t experience it if we are too preoccupied with the things that we want although we already have the things that make us happy in front of us.

33. Happiness is like Jam

Happiness is contagious. As they say, whatever emotions you portray to others, they will automatically be mirrored. So if you give a smile to some stranger today, they will definitely smile back.

34. We all deserve to be Happy

Every one of us deserves to be happy. We just have to take that leap that leads to it. Being happy should never be a choice because if it is, then we can never experience it fully.

35. Be Happy Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

A saying from Leo Tolstoy, reminds us that if today, we want to be happy, then let it be. There’s no one out there who can tell us when to be happy, so it might as well start within us.

36. A good life is full of Happy Moments

In order for us not to regret anything, we should fill our lives with happy memories that we can surely treasure for a lifetime. Certain circumstances will make us go into despair but we can always replace them with happy moments.

37. Be Happy Quotes by Anne Frank

A message from Anne Frank, is that we should appreciate the beauty that we have around us to be happy. We are surrounded by beautiful people and beautiful surroundings, learn to stop for a while, admire the wonders, and feel good inside.

38. Never lose Happiness

This is a very powerful quote between anger and happiness. We should never allow anger to take over us for we lose happiness.

39. Find reasons to be Happy

Let us find reasons to be happy. May it be an appreciation of the wonders of the world, a promotion, or even a birth of a newborn. If we appreciate simple things in life, then happiness will come to us as fast as a strike of lightning.

40. Happiness is a Journey

It is true that in life, we come across events that prevent us from happiness. Life’s journey is not about having a stable job or having lots of money, but life is about creating a road to happiness.

41. Don’t Worry, Be Positive

Do what makes you happy, and don’t worry about the obstacles ahead, as long as you stay positive, everything will fall into place.

42. Don’t be afraid to Walk away

People come and go. If they are meant to stay in our lives, then they will find a way to never walk away. If you feel that a person is better off without you, then give way. It is the only way for you to find your own happiness too!

43. Be Happy in times of Sadness

Let’s admit it, women are more emotional than men. Women sometimes tend to be emotionally irrational when it comes to love and commitment. Although women act this way, they are very strong when it comes to handling sadness because they always find a way to divert emotion to happiness, which makes them very strong individuals.

44. Decisions that lead to Happiness

In life, we should always decide for our own happiness. We should think carefully if the choices that were going to make will make us happy to avoid any regrets. These be happy quotes will help you find comfort.

45. Happiness is a result of your Choices

As individuals, it is our nature to be self-actualized. Some of us, although already self-fulfilled, always feel that there is something missing. If we do things wholeheartedly, then happiness is not hard to find.

46. Do what makes you Happy

Always be happy and appreciate what you have. Opportunities will come in the least that you expect, so might as well be happy while looking forward to the best things that can happen.

47. Be Happy and Be Positive

If we learn to look at the bright side of life, then there will be no reason for us to be sad. Be happy, because being happy is good.

48. Be Happy, It drives people Crazy

All of us have haters. They always talk behind our backs and we often wonder why? We haven’t done anything bad to them. If we show them that we are happy despite all the negative things that they are saying, then it will drive them crazy because we will never get affected.

49. Count the Reasons to be Happy

We have many reasons to stay happy. The fact that we are blessed beyond what we deserve is the plain sole reason why we should be happy and content with what we have right now.

50. Be Happy Quotes by Hellen Keller

Some of us always want more than what we have, even billionaires want even more! It is just a matter of contentment. If we are happy with what we have today, then, of course, you will get what you want in the future.

51. Pursuit of Happiness

We all know the movie The Pursuit of Happiness. A very touching movie where a father takes care of his son while trying to find a job without a home. All of us are trying to pursue different things to find happiness.

52. Hard work leads to a Beautiful Life

We desire of having a beautiful life with our family. And of course, it will not just happen if we do not put in hard work and sacrifice for the life that we want.

53. Life itself is the Reason

The fact that we are given a lifetime to celebrate and experience life here on earth, let’s spend it as happily as we could. A lifetime is only a one-time opportunity for us.

54. Simple Rules to be Happy

Originally posted by Imgandpics

We have five simple rules to be happy. Let’s have faith in the Lord that He will provide what our heart desires. Let us keep trying until we reach our goals. Let’s keep everything simple to avoid complications. Laugh at our problems because surely we can find a proper solution and let us stay as youthful as a kid and see things from their own perspectives.

55. Be Happy by Frederick Keong

Let us never forget that happiness doesn’t come from material things, but happiness comes from the love of family and friends.

56. Acceptance leads to Happiness

Accepting where we are in life and not wanting more will make us happy. Although we may not have the material things others may have, at least we have the love of the family that will be with us in life’s journey.

57. Seek Happiness

If we give happiness to others, it is also an opportunity for us to reflect and find the things that can make us happy.

58. Make others Happy

If you are happy, make someone happy as well so that someone can pass it on to another until each of us can feel the happiness that one person spreads.

59. Think Happy

We always hear the words “think happy thoughts”. It is not just a good feeling but every time we think happy, we release our happy hormones and it makes us feel good all day.

60. Happy Quote by Dalai Lama

These are very inspiring be happy quotes by the Dalai Lama. Our actions bring us happiness. So why not practice the acts of giving, sharing, and loving so that everyone can be happy?

61. Be Happy Again

After the painful experiences that we had, we realize that it’s time to be happy. It’s time to go back to our old selves where we are happy by just appreciating simple things in life.

62. Decide to be Happy

Originally posted by Very Best Quotes

Let us not strive to be happy but let us decide to be happy now. Happiness is not for us to achieve but something we must feel each and every day of our lives.

63. Be Yourself

In the world today, people live by to please others. We have already forgotten how to keep it real so others would love us the way we are. We don’t need to pretend in order for others to like us. If we keep it real, then we will be happy.

64. Don’t be Miserable

Originally posted by New Beginning Quotes

Cynthia Nelms reminds us that each of us is struggling differently. If you are cussing with the life that you have today, then might as well be happy because others cannot do anything about it unless you make an effort to change.

65. Surround yourself with Loved Ones

Our family gives us the unconditional love we could ever expect. It makes us happy knowing that your family is always with you no matter what happens.

66. Just Let It Be

We should never force something to happen in order for us to be happy. Just let things fall into place, let things happen, and finally, when it’s your turn, you will see and understand why you were never happy before.

67. Be Happy With What You Have

Originally posted by Love Quotes

Conclusion

In life, we still strive harder and harder to get the things that we want. We already have many achievements, but still, we want more. And we never realized that others are also dreaming of the things that we have that they can’t have. We should learn to appreciate and give to the needy to make them happy, especially during Christmas time!

A key to an abundant life is living in contentment. Finding joy in everything we do. What we feel inside will always show outside. When we are truly happy, it always reflects. Always learn to be appreciative to make life easier. Don’t feed your life with negativity and start thinking positively. You don’t want to end up in a depressed state where it’ll be more difficult. With these quotes, you will be able to think positively and share them with others. Let that spirit of giving even in a simple way spurt out in you.

We hope that you were inspired by our Be Happy Quotes and Sayings. Never try to be happy, but instead, make it a habit. Be happy that anyone who sees you can feel the positive vibe that you’re having. Be happy and spread it to others! Do not keep it for yourself. Be contagious!

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If you have to try to be cool, you will never be cool. If you have to try to be happy, then you will never be happy. People these days are just trying too hard.

When you’re raging pissed and throwing a socket wrench at the neighbor’s kids, you are not self-conscious about your state of anger. You are not thinking, “Am I finally angry? Am I doing this right?” No, you’re out for blood. You inhabit and live the anger. You are the anger.

And then it’s gone. Hopefully before the cops arrive.

Happiness, like other emotions, is not something you obtain, but rather something you inhabit. It is temporary¹. Always.

What this implies is that finding happiness is not achieved in itself, but rather it is the side effect of a particular set of ongoing life experiences. This gets mixed up a lot, especially since happiness is marketed so much these days as a goal in and of itself. Buy X and be happy. Learn Y and be happy. But you can’t buy happiness and you can’t achieve happiness. It just is—once you get other parts of your life in order.

Tony Montana didn’t seem too happy.

When most people seek happiness, they are actually seeking pleasure: good food, more sex, more time for TV and movies, a new car, parties with friends, full body massages, losing 10 pounds, becoming more popular, and so on.

But while pleasure is great, it’s not the same as happiness². Pleasure is correlated with happiness but does not cause it. Ask any drug addict how their pursuit of pleasure turned out. Ask an adulterer who shattered her family and lost her children whether pleasure ultimately made her happy. Ask a man who almost ate himself to death how happy pursuing pleasure made him feel.

Pleasure is a false god. Research shows that people who focus their energy on materialistic and superficial pleasures end up more anxious, more emotionally unstable and less happy in the long-run³. Pleasure is the most superficial form of life satisfaction and therefore the easiest. Pleasure is what’s marketed to us. It’s what we fixate on. It’s what we use to numb and distract ourselves. But pleasure, while necessary, isn’t sufficient⁴. There’s something more.

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A popular narrative lately is that people are becoming unhappier because we’re all narcissistic and grew up being told that we’re special unique snowflakes who are going to change the world and we have Facebook constantly telling us how amazing everyone else’s lives are, but not our own, so we all feel like crap and wonder where it all went wrong. Oh, and all of this happens by the age of 23.

Sorry, but no. Give people a bit more credit than that.

For instance, a friend of mine recently started a high-risk business venture. He dried up most of his savings trying to make it work and failed. Today, he’s happier than ever for his experience. It taught him many lessons about what he wanted and didn’t want in life and it eventually led him to his current job, which he loves. He’s able to look back and be proud that he went for it because otherwise, he would have always wondered “what if?” and that would have made him unhappier than any failure would have.

The failure to meet our own expectations is not antithetical to happiness, and I’d actually argue that the ability to fail and still appreciate the experience is actually a fundamental building block for happiness⁵^,⁶.

If you thought you were going to make $100,000 and drive a Porsche immediately out of college, then your standards of success were skewed and superficial, you confused your pleasure for happiness, and the painful smack of reality hitting you in the face will be one of the best lessons life ever gives you.

The “lower expectations” argument falls victim to the same old mindset: that happiness is derived from without. The joy of life is not having a $100,000 salary. It’s working to reach a $100,000 salary, and then working for a $200,000 salary, and so on.

So, I say raise your expectations. Elongate your process. Lay on your death bed with a to-do list a mile long and smile at the infinite opportunity granted to you. Create ridiculous standards for yourself and then savor the inevitable failure. Learn from it. Live it. Let the ground crack and rocks crumble around you because that’s how something amazing grows, through the cracks.

Chances are you know someone who always appears to be insanely happy regardless of the circumstances or situation. Chances are this is actually one of the most dysfunctional people you know. Denying negative emotions leads to deeper and more prolonged negative emotions and emotional dysfunction.

It’s a simple reality: shit happens. Things go wrong. People upset us. Mistakes are made and negative emotions arise. And that’s fine. Negative emotions are necessary and healthy for maintaining a stable baseline happiness in one’s life.

The trick with negative emotions is to 1) express them in a socially acceptable and healthy manner and 2) express them in a way which aligns with your values.

Simple example: A value of mine is to pursue non-violence. Therefore, when I get mad at somebody, I express that anger, but I also make a point to not punch them in the face. Radical idea, I know. (But I absolutely will throw a socket wrench at the neighbor’s kids. Try me.)

There’s a lot of people out there who subscribe to the “always be positive” ideology. These people should be avoided just as much as someone who thinks the world is an endless pile of shit. If your standard of happiness is that you’re always happy, no matter what, then you need a reality check.

I think part of the allure of obsessive positivity is the way in which we’re marketed to. I think part of it is being subjected to happy, smiley people on television constantly. I think part of it is that some people in the self-help industry want you to feel like there’s something wrong with you all the time.

Or maybe it’s just that we’re lazy, and like anything else, we want the result without actually having to do the hard work for it.

Which brings me to what actually drives happiness….

Completing a marathon makes us happier than eating a chocolate cake. Raising a child makes us happier than beating a video game. Starting a small business with friends and struggling to make money makes us happier than buying a new computer.

And the funny thing is that all three of the activities above are exceedingly unpleasant and require setting high expectations and potentially failing to always meet them. Yet, they are some of the most meaningful moments and activities of our lives. They involve pain, struggle, even anger and despair, yet once we’ve done them we look back and get misty-eyed about them.

Why?

Because it’s these sorts of activities that allow us to become our ideal selves. It’s the perpetual pursuit of fulfilling our ideal selves that grants us happiness, regardless of superficial pleasures or pain, regardless of positive or negative emotions. This is why some people are happy in war and others are sad at weddings. It’s why some are excited to work and others hate parties. The traits they’re inhabiting don’t align with their ideal selves.

The end results don’t define our ideal selves. It’s not finishing the marathon that makes us happy; it’s achieving a difficult long-term goal that does. It’s not having an awesome kid to show off that makes us happy; it’s knowing that you gave yourself up to the growth of another human being that is special. It’s not the prestige and money from the new business that makes you happy, it’s the process of overcoming all odds with people you care about.

And this is the reason that trying to be happy inevitably will make you unhappy. Because to try to be happy implies that you are not already inhabiting your ideal self, you are not aligned with the qualities of who you wish to be. After all, if you were acting out your ideal self, then you wouldn’t feel the need to try to be happy.

Cue statements about “finding happiness within,” and “knowing that you’re enough.” It’s not that happiness itself is in you, it’s that happiness occurs when you decide to pursue what’s in you.

And this is why happiness is so fleeting. Anyone who has set out major life goals for themselves only to achieve them and realize that they feel the same relative amounts of happiness/unhappiness knows that happiness always feels like it’s around the corner, just waiting for you to show up. No matter where you are in life, you will always perceive there to be one more thing you need to do to be especially happy⁷. But it too, will be a mirage.

And that’s because our ideal self is always just around that corner, always three steps ahead of us. We dream of being a musician and when we’re a musician, we dream of writing a film score, and when write a film score, we dream of writing a screenplay. And what matters isn’t that we achieve each of these plateaus of success, but that we’re consistently moving towards them, day after day, month after month, year after year. The plateaus will come and go, and we’ll continue following our ideal self down the path of our lives.

And with that, with regards to finding happiness, it seems the best advice is also the simplest: Imagine who you want to be and then step towards it⁸. Dream big and then do something. Anything⁹. The simple act of moving at all will change how you feel about the entire process and serve to inspire you further.

Let go of the imagined result—it’s not necessary. The fantasy and the dream are merely tools to get you off your ass. It doesn’t matter if they come true or not. Live, man. Just live. Stop trying to be happy and just be.

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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

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Our latest collection of quotes about being happy helps you see the brighter side of life.

Being happy is extremely vital and something every person ultimately wants.

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What are the benefits of reading quotes about being happy?

Regardless of all the negative events that often occur in our lives, we can all maintain our happiness by learning to interpret whatever circumstances we deal with in a positive light.

Although external behaviors and events can trigger off negative thoughts, that can only happen if you allow them to.

Being happy leads to an array of benefits like:

increasing our performance at work
improving our relationships
improving our health
making us more pleasant to be around

Besides making us feel good about ourselves, happiness is a positive emotion that drives our ambitions and motivates us to wake up every morning to pursue our goals and dreams.

So how can we attain happiness?

To do this, we need to take personal responsibility for our happiness.

We accept that our happiness is our choice and something to be found within us.

Overall, happiness makes us healthier, more productive, and ready to use our Everyday Power to reach our full potential.

Below are some inspirational, wise, and thoughtful be yourself quotes about being happy that will help you develop the ability to be happy under all circumstances.

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Quotes about being happy regardless of where you are in life

According to a study by the University of Illinois, people who are happy with their lives tend to have better physical health, a stronger immune system, and a longer lifespan than those who are unhappy.

This suggests that being happy can have significant benefits for our overall well-being and longevity.

1. “Being happy is something that each of us determines, it is not something that we find outside of yourself, it is within us and our choice.” – Catherine Pulsifer

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2. “The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.” – William Ralph Inge

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3. “Happiness is a deep sense of flourishing, not a mere pleasurable feeling or fleeting emotion but an optimal state of being.” – Matthieu Ricard

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4. “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”– Abraham Lincoln

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5. “We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.” – William James

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6. “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”― Anne Frank

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7. “Happy is entirely up to you and always has been.”― Janette Rallison

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8. “Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.”― Deepak Chopra

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9. “The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of every day.”- Anonymous

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

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Quotes about being happy with who you are

A survey by the American Psychological Association found that people who are satisfied with their work-life balance are more likely to report good mental health and less likely to experience symptoms of anxiety and depression.

This highlights the importance of finding a healthy balance between work and other aspects of our lives for our mental health.

11. “The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.” – Goldie Hawn

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12. “I enjoyed my life when I had nothing… and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.” – Joey Ramone

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13. “Being happy in your skin that’s what it’s all about.” – Koo Stark

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14. “Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.” – Ariana Grande

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15. “Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad!”- Norm Papernick

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16. “True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.” – Joseph Addison

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17. “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” – Dalai Lama

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

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19. “I would do my damn best to be more happy than not.”― Adam Silvera

20. “Happiness doesn’t have to be chased…it merely has to be chosen.” ― Mandy Hale

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Quotes about being happy with what you have

According to a study conducted by psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky, 40% of our happiness is determined by our intentional activities and habits.

This suggests that a significant portion of our happiness is within our control, and engaging with uplifting quotes can be an intentional activity to boost happiness.

21. “The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.” – Woody Allen

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22. “Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.” – Alan Cohen

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23. “If being happy is important to you, try this: instead of regretting all you lack, celebrate all you’ve got.” – Brian Vaszily

24. “I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.” – DMX

25. “Happiness is not having what you want. It is appreciating what you have.” – Unknown

26. “Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.”― Hafez

27. “Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.”- Frances Rodman

28. “Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.”- Rabbi Hyman Schachtel

29. “Do not forget to hope and happy be.” – John McLeod

30. “It’s not my job to make you happy. It’s your job to learn that only those who quit selfishly seeking their own happiness find it.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich

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Quotes about being happy and what it means

In a 2015 study by researcher Sarah D. Pressman, it was found that people who experience more positive emotions have lower levels of inflammation, which is linked to a reduced risk of chronic diseases.

Engaging with happiness-inducing content, like these quotes, can potentially have a positive impact on physical health.

31. “The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” – Henry Ward Beecher

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

33. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama

quotes about being happy and your own actions

34. “Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”– Helen Keller

35. “Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” – Margaret Lee Runbeck

36. “I don’t care about having money. It’s about being happy, man.” – Skrillex

37. “We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”– Anne Frank

38. “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” – Denis Waitley

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39. “Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour.” – Walt Whitman

40. “The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”- Allan K. Chalmers

Quotes about being happy and letting go of the things that make you sad

Research from Harvard University’s Grant and Glueck studies, which spanned over 75 years, concluded that good relationships are a key factor in promoting happiness and overall well-being.

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41. “You can never be really happy if you keep holding to those bad memories which makes you sad.” – Anurag Prakash

42. “Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.” – Frank Tyger

43. “One of the simplest ways to stay happy is by letting go of the things that make you sad.” –Tinku Razoria

44. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”– Albert Schweitzer

45. “Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.” – J. Petit Senn

quotes about being happy and where we seek it

47. “If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”― Roy T. Bennett

48. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

49. “I laugh as much as I can and cry when I have to, without apology. I think that’s happy.”- Maya Angelou

50. “If you want to be happy, you need to set your mind on happiness.” ― Ana Kostovska

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Quotes about being happy with yourself

According to a study by the University of Warwick, happiness can increase productivity by up to 12%.

This means that being happy with yourself not only improves your personal well-being but can also lead to professional success.

51. “Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.” – Jim Rohn

52. “Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people.” – Tena Desae

53. “If you want to be happy, be.”– Leo Tolstoy

54. “When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.” – Jack Ma

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55. “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” – Ayn Rand

56. “Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.” – John B. Sheerin

57. “You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.”
― Debasish Mridha

58. “Success means being happy with who you are and bringing happiness to those around you.” – Jane John Nwankwo

59. “If you feel happy, Smile with all your heart. if you’re down, smile with all your might.” ― Paul Ian Guillermo

60. “You choose to be happy. You don’t become happy just because the circumstances lead you to happiness.” – Ryan Cooper

Inspirational quotes about being happy

The World Happiness Report 2021, which ranks countries based on their levels of happiness, found that Denmark, Switzerland, and Iceland are the top three happiest countries in the world.

This suggests that focusing on factors such as social support, freedom, and GDP per capita can contribute to overall happiness.

61. “Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy.” – Elizabeth Scott

62. “Being happy never goes out of style.” – Lilly Pulitzer

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

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64. “What’s fulfilling is being happy and being able to help other people. The simple things.” – James Arthur

65. “Be believing, be happy, don’t get discouraged. Things will work out.”― Gordon B. Hinckley

66. “The key to happiness was achievable dreams.”― Nicholas Sparks

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

68. “I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of trying to make me happy”― J.D. Salinger

69. “Is happiness equated to wealth, money, possessions, or is it value you find in doing your job well, having a loving family, your health, and an inner peace?” – Catherine Pulsifer

70. “Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier.” ― Roy Bennett

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Happy quotes that will make your day

A study by the National Institute of Mental Health found that people who have a sense of purpose in their lives experience less stress and are generally happier.

This highlights the importance of finding meaning and fulfillment in your daily activities.

71. “It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. ”― Lucille Ball

72. “Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”― Aldous Huxley

73. “Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.”― Peter Deunov

74. “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.”― Andy Rooney

75. “Be happy in the moment, that’s enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.”― Mother Teresa

76. “Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.”― Aeschylus

77. “Happiness only real when shared.”― Christopher McCandless

78. “The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”― James Matthew Barrie

79. “You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.”― Wayne Dyer

80. “Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.”― Alexandre Dumas

81. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.”― James Oppenheim

82. “Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.”― Sri Ramana Maharshi

83. “My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”― Michael J. Fox

84. “Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”― Stephen R. Covey

85. “That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”― Willa Cather

Quotes about being happy and living a full life

According to a study by the University of Warwick, happy employees are 12% more productive than their unhappy counterparts.

This shows that cultivating a culture of happiness can lead to positive outcomes in both personal and professional life.

86. “To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”– Bertrand Russell

87. “Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.” – Douglas Jerrold

88. “Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.”– Benjamin Franklin

89. “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”– Franklin D. Roosevelt

90. “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”
– Carrie Jones

91. “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”– George Sand

92. “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

93. “Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.”
– Gretta Brooker Palmer

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

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The World Happiness Report 2021 ranked Finland as the happiest country in the world for the fourth consecutive year.

The report also suggests that the factors that contribute to happiness include income, social support, and freedom to make life choices.

95. “True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”– Helen Keller

96. “Happiness is never a step away, it is within you. You just need to unleash it.” – Ojingiri Hannah

97. “Spread love all over the world and in return, you will receive the gift of lifetime happiness.” – Nitin Namdeo

98. “A truly intelligent person is one who always finds a reason to be happy every moment.” – Nitin Namdeo

99. “Stop looking for happiness, you are alive, you are in this moment, nothing can be happier than this.” – Nitin Namdeo

100. “Find your happiness, not by seeking more, but by appreciating what you already have.” – Frank Sonnenberg

101. “Believe in yourself and be the source of joy in someone else’s life.” – Amit Ray

102. “Being happy on seeing others happy is happiness multiplied.” – Tapan Ghosh

103. “Spend more time doing things that make you forget about the time.” – Charlotte Eriksson

104. “Be happy about your own life and you’ll be amazed at just how much more beautiful you’ll find it to be.” – TemitOpe Ibrahim

105. “Happiness is the result of a life well-lived.” – Danny Dover

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Happiness quotes that remind you no matter where you are in life—life is good

The World Happiness Report 2021 found that social connections and relationships are an essential component of happiness.

The report suggests that fostering positive relationships with family, friends, and community can lead to a more fulfilling and happy life.

106. “You are only a poor person if you are not happy with what you have.” — Debasish Mridha

107. “Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” — Anonymous

108. “Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.” — Bilal Zahoor

109. “Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.” — Dale Carnegie

110. “Contentment always eludes those who don’t count themselves blessed for what they already have.” — Anonymous

111. “Make peace with your now moment. Live in this very moment and be happy with what you have.” — Angie Karan

112. “Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.” — William E. Gladstone

113. “It’s almost impossible to be satisfied in your own life if you’re constantly looking at what someone else has.” — Rachael Cruze

114. “To be content doesn’t mean you don’t desire more, it means you’re thankful for what you have and patient for what’s to come.” — Tony Gaskins

115. “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

Being happy quotes that remind us it is a choice

116. “Happiness depends upon ourselves.” — Aristotle

117. “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” — Omar Khayyam

118. “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” — Oscar Wilde

119. “I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.” — J. D. Salinger

120. “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.” — Charles Spurgeon

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

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

123. “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

124. “I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” — Groucho Marx

125. “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

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126. “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” ― Roy T. Bennett

127. “Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.” ― G.K. Chesterton

128. “Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I’ll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life.” ― Charlotte Eriksson

129. “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

130. “I feel like I’ve been split open and stuffed with sunshine.” ― Tahereh Mafi

131. “Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.” ― Matt Haig

132. “If you come at four in the afternoon, I’ll begin to be happy by three.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

133. “When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.” ― Oscar Wilde

134. “If you’ve got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.” ― Melody Carstairs

135. “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

136. “If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!” ― Orson Welles

Quotes About Being Happy and Sayings

137. “I have chosen to be happy because it’s good for my health.” — Voltaire

138. “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” — Gabriel García Márquez

139. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” — Marcel Proust

140. “Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

141. “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” ― Steve Maraboli

142. “Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.” ― Daphne Du Maurier

143. “Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure” ― Arthur Schopenhauer

144. “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

145. “I don’t understand the point of being together if you’re not the happiest.” ― Gillian Flynn

146. “Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.” ― Marie Rutkoski

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147. “You must be the best judge of your own happiness.” ― Jane Austen

148. “There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.” ― C.S. Lewis

149. “You can’t buy happiness” ― Kurt Cobain

150. “You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.” ― Andy Warhol

151. “The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.” ― Ayad Akhtar

152. “If you want to find happiness, find gratitude.” ― Steve Maraboli

153. “Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.” ― Charles Dickens

154. “The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.” — Victor Hugo

155. “The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself.” ― Ellen DeGeneres

156. “Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear” ― Taylor Swift

Quotes On Being Happy To Give You a Positive Attitude

157. “I’d rather be poor and happy than rich and alone.” — Lady Gaga

158. “Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.” — Dan Millman

159. “My goal in life is to be as happy as a studio audience.” — Jim Gaffigan

160. “There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.” — Jodi Picoult

161. “A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

162. “The key to life is to be happy with or without money. Money only magnifies who you really are.” — Robert Kiyosaki

163. “If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!” — Joyce Meyer

164. “Be so happy that when others look at you, they become happy too.” — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

165. “Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.” — Lady Randolph Churchill

166. “Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.” — Zig Ziglar

Quotes About Being Happy To Express That Happiness is a Choice

167. “Nothing can take your joy; you have to give it away. You’re in complete control of your happiness.” — Joel Osteen

168. “You will only find the happiness you seek when you drop your negative attitude towards life, embrace life and be happy.” — Leon Brown

169. “Happiness is a decision.” — Michael J. Fox

170. “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” — Helen Keller

171. “With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.” — Max Ehrmann

172. “I get way too much happiness from good food.” — Elizabeth Olsen

173. “Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.” — William Butler Yeats

174. “My ambition is to be happy.” — Penelope Cruz

175. “The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.” — Deepak Chopra

176. “Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.” — Ralph Marston

All-Time Quotes About Being Happy

177. “Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness.” — Christian Dior

178. “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” — John Barrymore

179. “Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.”

― Roy T. Bennett

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

181. “Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement.” — David C. Hill

182. “There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.” — Freya Stark

183. “The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.” — Audrey Hepburn

184. “One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” — Rita Mae Brown

185. “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” — William James

186. “Happiness is a direction, not a place.” — Sydney J. Harris

Quotes About Being Happy To Stay Positive About Life

187. “If you want happiness, choose it. Don’t wait for anyone to bestow it upon you.” — Cyndie Spiegel

188. “The key to happiness is being comfortable in this moment, right here and now.” — Mariam Gates

189. “Happiness is a state of mind which leaves you contented about yourself and your life.” — Lorin Hopper

190. “Remaining positive about yourself and your situation is key to your happiness.” — Lucy Lane

191. “If we cannot find happiness within ourselves we will not be able to find happiness anywhere.” — Allan Lokos

192. “Think of the happiness of others and in this you’ll find your own.” — Robert E Farley

193. “True happiness comes from designing a life that works for you.” — Bill Burnett

194. “Focusing on what you have instead of what you don’t have or want is the key to happiness.” — Harvey Volson

195. “Positive people want to be a part of positive things, so the more positive and happy you are the more you will attract other positive people.” — Brian Maddox

196. “You must not wallow in negative emotions, because then they will cloud your perspective, and even prevent you from achieving happiness.” — Melinda Bauer

Quotes About Being Happy To Bring Peace Within Your Soul

197. “Being happy includes walking around with a smile on your face, savoring the day you just had, and looking forward to tommorow.” — Alex A. Lluch

198. “Happiness is being loved for who you are.” — Maria von Heland

199. “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

200. “We should concern ourselves, not so much with the pursuit of happiness, but with the happiness of pursuit.” — Maria von Heland

201. “You don’t need to manipulate the world around you to try to make yourself happy. You live from happiness, rather than for happiness.” — Marci Shimoff

202. “The key to being happy is to balance the internal scale that measures out doses of positive or negative feedback and reactions.” — Alex A. Lluch

203. “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.” — Vea Cabral

204. “When you’re Happy for No Reason you’re unconditionally happy. It’s not that your life always looks perfect. It’s just that however it looks, you’ll still be happy.” — Marci Shimoff

205. “Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.” — John Lewis

206. “Society tells us that the only life worth living is a happy one, but if we didn’t know sadness, we couldn’t know happiness.” — Alex A. Lluch

Quotes About Being Happy To Find Peace Within Yourself

207. “When you are happy, you feel the sunshine even inside the fog; when you are unhappy, you feel the fog even in the sunshine.” ― Mehmet Murat Ildan

208. “He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

209. “If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.” ― Jim Rohn

210. “Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.” ― Bertrand Russell

211. “Find something to feel good about and get out of the way, and allow the cells to receive what they’ve been asking for. That is the key to healing.” ― Esther Hicks

212. “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

213. “The Happiest people DO NOT necessarily have the BEST THINGS. They simply APPRECIATE the things they have.” ― Warren Buffett

214. “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” ― John Stuart Mill

215. “The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.” ― Carl Sandburg

216. “Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others.” ― Everett Ruess

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1. 1. You’re Trying to Make Your Parents Proud
2. 2. You Let Your Career Decide Your Worth
3. 3. You Expect Your Partner To be Perfect
4. 4. You Want More Money
5. 5. You Think You Need More Friends
6. 6. You’re Waiting For That Apology
7. 7. You’re Fixating On Future Results
8. 8. You Feel Sorry For Yourself
9. 9. You Put Happiness Off Until Tomorrow
True, Lasting Happiness is Waiting for You

Do you sometimes wonder if you’ll ever be happy?

I mean truly happy, not just a few moments of weak sunshine in between a lifetime of gray skies.

I did. Often, my day would start out sunny, but invariably something would cloud my mood, and my happiness would sink before it had even properly risen.

Back then, true happiness, lasting happiness, seemed like a dream.

After all, how could you ever be truly happy when life tosses you around like a leaf in a storm, forever snatching happiness out of your hands?

But I came to realize that perhaps life wasn’t responsible for my woes. Perhaps I was the instrument of my own unhappiness. Perhaps nothing would change unless I took responsibility for my own life.

So I learned how to read the warning signs, the signs that told me I would never be happy if I carried on thinking and acting a certain way.

And eventually, I learned that my happiness depended on me and that I could make my own blue skies.

And you can too.

Related Read: Transform Your Life to Be Happy in 17 Simple Steps

9 Things You Do That Make You Unhappy

To secure your happiness, you need to start by recognizing these warning signs:

1. You’re Trying to Make Your Parents Proud

They may mean the world to you, but you’re not them, and they certainly aren’t you. Trying to live your life to please your parents is as poor an idea as trying to get them to change their expectations of what you should do with your life.

Basing your happiness on the approval of others, however much you may love them, is a sure path to unhappiness.

Instead, concentrate on living your life to please the only person whose approval you can’t be happy without – you.

“What you think of yourself is much more important than what other people think of you.” – Seneca

2. You Let Your Career Decide Your Worth

We all need to work for a living, and often that means we rely on someone else recognizing our worth, acknowledging it, and rewarding us. That’s how we advance in our careers, which is fine.

However, basing your happiness on that external validation is a sure warning sign that you’re letting someone else decide your value.

Instead, celebrate promotions when you get them, but don’t let it get you down when someone else gets them instead. Base your happiness on your own recognition of your value.

Promote yourself, and in your mind, choose your own title to hang on your door: CEO of happiness, successful parent, loving friend, compassionate human being; you choose.

“If you find yourself constantly trying to prove your worth to someone, you have already forgotten your value.” – unknown

3. You Expect Your Partner To be Perfect

There really is no such thing as perfect because perfect means without flaws, and as human beings, we are all flawed. And that includes your partner and you.

Basing your happiness on finding your perfect partner – or your present partner ever living up to your ideal of perfect – is like canceling a picnic because of one tiny cloud in a blue sky. Your happiness and that picnic will simply never happen.

Instead, forget the notion of flaws to start with.

What you see as your partner’s flaws are just the characteristics that make them who they are. And the truth is, trying to change someone else in a relationship is like trying to change the weather; just because you’re in it doesn’t mean you can control it.

Instead, concentrate on embracing your partner and all his or her characteristics and habits as you would want them to do for you.

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love“ – Tom Robbins

4. You Want More Money

Life’s easier with enough money, for sure. But how much is enough? How much is too much?

The more you earn, the more you tend to spend.

And anyway, basing your happiness on how much you’re worth is a risky game. It can change in a day even, leaving you feeling worthless because you’re worthless.

Instead, base your happiness on your inner wealth, on your own personal worth as a human being. Riches such as creativity, generosity, and authenticity can never be taken away from you – except by you.

“If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can’t buy.” – Proverb

5. You Think You Need More Friends

It feels great to be validated; that makes you normal. We all want others to say, “I like you.” But basing your happiness on how many friends you have online, or offline, is a clear warning sign that you’re concentrating on the wrong marker.

It’s not how many friends you have that counts but rather how many prove to be loyal friends.

So base your happiness on the quality, not the quantity of your friends – those who love you and stick with you through the sunshine and the rain.

“If you have one true friend you have more than your share.” – Thomas Fuller

6. You’re Waiting For That Apology

Others can trample on your feelings with just a few harsh words, a single selfish act, or even a disparaging look. And it stings, sometimes to the point of distraction. You may believe they owe you an apology, for sure, but they may not feel the same.

And even if they do apologize, would it be sincere?

Base your happiness on forgiveness instead. No one can stop you forgiving them. No one can stop you moving on with your life and replacing anger with peace.

This doesn’t mean that you condone someone else’s bad behavior or that you let them back into your life if you have distanced yourself from them. What it does do is allows you to get on with your life without your mind and happiness being taken up with them and their past actions.

“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.” – Robert Brault

7. You’re Fixating On Future Results

It’s true that reaching a goal, particularly a major one, produces a peak in your happiness. But it’s often just as soon gone. We tend to get used to things quickly, so the novelty of a promotion or a new toy quickly wears off, and we return to our previous level of happiness.

Also having striven so long for that goal, we often feel a sense of emptiness and lack of focus in our lives after achieving it.

And the reality is, you may very well never achieve it. Too many factors in life are simply outside your control.

Which doesn’t mean setting goals is bad; they help us focus and grow. But base your happiness on taking action toward those goals, not on attaining them. Then, if you fail to reach your goal, your happiness won’t suffer.

“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.”- Dennis Wholey

8. You Feel Sorry For Yourself

As I said, life isn’t all sunshine. Bad things happen – illness, relationship breakups, redundancy – some of these things are undeniably going to batter your happiness hard. But how hard is up to you.

Rather than feeling sorry for yourself and getting caught in a spiral of negativity, base your happiness on tackling those things within your control.

Look for ways you can mitigate or even reverse your unhappy situation.

It’s certainly not always easy, but by accepting responsibility for your life rather than wallowing in self-pity, you can move on and regain your positivity and happiness.

“Self-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.” – Helen Keller

9. You Put Happiness Off Until Tomorrow

Most of us have a streak of procrastination in our basic character. We put off filing our tax returns, replying to that awkward email, or deciding to start that diet until the last minute. We put stuff off until tomorrow and beyond as if magically it will be easier then.

And we mistakenly do the same with our happiness.

Instead, base your happiness on today. The only time you can actually experience the feeling of happiness is in the present. The past is gone and cannot be changed, and the future is uncertain.

Now is the only time you are actually alive, can act, and can decide to be happy.

Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

True, Lasting Happiness is Waiting for You

Making happiness more than a fleeting feeling can seem impossible, especially if you feel helpless and caught in one of the life’s storms, but you can do it.

Recognizing these warning signs will get you started on the road to real happiness. Avoiding them will brighten your skies.

Happiness, like all good habits, needs time to build. Learn to avoid these warning signs, and although the wind may rattle your happiness, it won’t be able to tear it down.

Weather-proof your happiness, and go make your own blue skies.

Over To You –

Do you exhibit any of these warning signs? And how do you counteract them? Please share your tips and thoughts in the comments below.

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We all want to be happy, right? These happiness quotes are the place to start your pursuit.

After all, life is better when we’re happy and feel positive.

So to help you on your journey, enjoy these feel-good quotes about happiness and being happy to help you find joy and satisfaction in life.

Top 10 Happiness Quotes

Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement.

David C. Hill

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

Sydney Harris quote "Happiness is a direction not a place"

“Happiness is a direction, not a place.” – Sydney J. Harris

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.

Steve Maraboli

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

Bernard de Fontenelle

The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.

Carrie Jones

Werner Erhard quote "Happiness is a function of accepting what is"

“Happiness is a function of accepting what is.” – Werner Erhard

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Charles Spurgeon

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Ask any number of people and each one will likely define happiness differently. Do you have your definition or are you still looking for one?

These quotes about happiness explore what it means, how to find it, and what to do if you have it.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Immanuel Kant

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Thomas Jefferson

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Don Marquis

William Arthur Ward quote "Happiness is an inside job"

“Happiness is an inside job.” – William Arthur Ward

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

V.S. Pritchett

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.

Benjamin Franklin

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

Freya Stark

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

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

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

Johnny Carson

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns

Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.

Hazelmarie Elliott

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

Aristotle quote "Happiness depends upon ourselves"

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

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

Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends.

Divyanka Tripathi

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Iris Murdoch

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

Orhan Pamuk

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

William Saroyan

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

Joseph Roux

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.

J.D. Salinger

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

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

Pat Conroy

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

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Jon Krakauer quote "Happiness is only real when shared"

“Happiness is only real when shared.” – Jon Krakauer quote

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

Happiness is a well-balanced combination of love, labour, and luck.

Mary Wilson Little

Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman. Or a bad woman.

George Burns

Short Happiness Quotes

Happiness is a place between too much and too little.

Finnnish Proverb

Happiness is a form of courage.

Holbrook Jackson

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

Gabriel García Márquez

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

William James

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

John Lubbock

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.

W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

Richard Bach

Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.

Buddha

All happiness depends on courage and work.

Honoré de Balzac

Phillips Brooks quote "Happiness is the natural flower of duty"

“Happiness is the natural flower of duty.” – Phillips Brooks

Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.

John Harrigan

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Lady Blessington

Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy.

J.M. Reinoso

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

The Pursuit of Happiness

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

Guillaume Apollinaire

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Doug Larson

There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.

J. Petit Senn

As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves.

Andrew Delbanco

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.

Douglas Jerrold

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

Epictetus

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Jim Rohn

Happiness is always the serendipitous result of looking for something else.

Dr. Idel Dreimer

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

E.L. Konigsburg

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

The secret ingredients to true happiness? Decisive optimism and personal responsibility.

Amy Leigh Mercree

People should find happiness in the little things, like family.

Amanda Bynes

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Unknown,
commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Eric Hoffer

Aristotle happiness quote "Happiness is a state of activity"

“Happiness is a state of activity.” – Aristotle

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Aristotle

My family didn’t have a lot of money, and I’m grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

Evangeline Lilly

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Gretta Brooker Palmer

True Happiness

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

George Sand

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Baruch Spinoza

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

Norm Papernick

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

Hosea Ballou

It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness.

Richard Branson

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind.

Buddha

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Epictetus

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

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Frederick Keonig

In my life I’ve learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we’re all searching for. I haven’t come across anyone who didn’t become a better person through love.

Marla Gibbs

True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller

Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.

Benjamin Franklin

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Hunter S. Thompson

The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

William Morris

Real happiness is not of temporary enjoyment, but is so interwoven with the future that it blesses for ever.

James Lendall Basford

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller

Happiness is the default state. It’s what’s there when you remove the sense that something is missing in life.

Naval Ravikant

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

Happiness is a constant work-in-progress, because solving problems is a constant work-in-progress – the solutions to today’s problems will lay the foundation for tomorrow’s problems, and so on. True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving.

Mark Manson

Happy Quotes

We hear and use the word “happy” a lot, but being happy is more than just a wish or greeting. Happy is a state of mind that we can choose and cultivate.

More important, we can share happy words and thoughts with others once we have it ourselves. These quotes about being happy will help you do just that!

So be happy and see how good it feels when those around you are happier too.

If being happy is a challenge, check out these 15 Simple Things To Do To Be Happier Today.

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.

John Stuart Mill

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

Marcel Proust

“If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.” – Taisen Deshimaru

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.

Chinese Proverb

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Carl Jung

It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

L.M. Montgomery,
Anne of Green Gables

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.

Unknown

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Mother Teresa

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

Lucille Ball

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Abraham Lincoln

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

Walter Savage Landor

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

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.

Richard Bach

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Happy girls are the prettiest.

Audrey Hepburn

Anne Frank quote "Whoever is happy will make others happy"

“Whoever is happy will make others happy.” – Anne Frank

When you’re happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness – and that’s a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.

Suze Orman

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

Quotes about Being Happy

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success.

Diego Val

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

Robert Anthony

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human—in not having to be just happy or just sad—in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.

C. JoyBell C.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances

J. Donald Walters

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Anne Frank

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

People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat – that’s the only moral they know.

Dany Laferrière

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

Epicurus

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.

Jane Austen,
Pride and Prejudice

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Benjamin Franklin

“You can only have bliss if you don’t chase it.” – Henepola Gunaratana

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

Robert Anthony

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

Tom Brady

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

John Stuart Mill

Happiness is the experience of loving life. Being happy is being in love with that momentary experience. And love is looking at someone or even something and seeing the absolute best in him/her or it. Love is happiness with what you see. So love and happiness really are the same thing… just expressed differently.

Robert McPhillips

Be Happy Quotes

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for happiness.

William E. Gladstone

You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes.

Lauren Oliver

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

Cynthia Nelms

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

Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.

Roy T. Bennett

Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.

Sri Chinmoy

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

Tracy Kidder

Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.

Deepak Chopra

Leo Tolstoy quote "If you want to be happy, be"

“If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

Jim Rohn

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

Andrew Carnegie

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

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you.

Lao Tzu

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

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.

Robert Brault

We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

Thomas Merton

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

Ayn Rand

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

Edith Wharton

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

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

Alan Cohen

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

St. Augustine

Colette quote "Be happy. It’s one way of being wise"

“Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.” – Colette

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

Omar Khayyam

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 month – get married. If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime – help someone else.

Chinese Proverb

Feeling Happy Quotes

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Marcus Aurelius

Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking.

H.W. Byles

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

Mignon McLaughlin

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.

Mark Twain

Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

Alain De Botton

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

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Barbara DeAngelis

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Bertrand Russell

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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

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

Mark Twain

I have only two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy.

Allen J. Lefferdink

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Sigmund Freud

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do.

Eckhart Tolle

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Anthony de Mello

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

James M. Barrie

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.

Morris West

We hope these happiness quotes lifted your mood and brightened your day. Share them with your friends to keep the good vibes spreading and choose to be happier today.

Being happy makes life better and more enjoyable, even when we have to make changes along the way.

If you still need a boost to be happier, check out 30 things you need to let go of to find happiness and start taking steps toward a happier life.

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There are countless stories about never giving up attitude. People have faced seemingly insurmountable odds but refused to give up. They kept fighting until they achieved their goals. In this article, we will share five such never give up stories with you. We will also include fifteen inspiring never giving up quotes. Let these stories and quotes motivate you to never give up on your dreams!

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” -Vince Lombardi.

This quote is often attributed to the legendary NFL coach Vince Lombardi, and it speaks to the importance of never giving up.

“Never give up.” It’s a phrase we’ve all heard, and it’s a phrase that is easier said than done. But history has taught us that having a “no giving up” attitude can make one accomplish great things. These real-life examples of never giving up inspire us all. These stories will show you that anything is possible if you never give up. And don’t forget: the next step is always worth fighting for!

What Is a “Never Give Up” Attitude?
Benefits of “Never Give Up” Attitude
Real-life Stories about Never Giving Up
- 1. Jack Ma of Alibaba Group
- 2. J. K. Rowling: Creator of Harry Potter
- 3. Nelson Mandela against Apartheid
- 4. Why Oprah Winfrey’s Story Is Good Enough for Never Giving Up Inspiration
- 5. Nick Vujicic’s Life without Limits
15 Inspiring Never Giving Up Quotes
How to Build “Never Give Up” Attitude?
- 1. Stay motivated:
- 2. Avoid negative self-talk:
- 3. Stay positive at work:
- 4. Avoid procrastination:
- 5. Build on your successes:
Related Questions and Answers:
Conclusion

What Is a “Never Give Up” Attitude?

Having a “no giving up” attitude means believing in your potential to be successful and making sure you don’t quit trying to attain your goals no matter the obstacles faced. It also involves accepting that multiple failures can be part of the process and adapting to the cycle of trial and failure until success is achieved. It would be best if you kept being focused, positive, and progressive in the face of every challenge.

For example, America’s great inventor Thomas Edison made countless efforts at inventing the light bulb, but he didn’t quit the idea until it was realized in 1879.

Benefits of “Never Give Up” Attitude

In a study, it was discovered that the failure rate for young businesses was about 90%. What if the affected entrepreneurs decide to give up on their business ideas and avoid restarting the business? Dreams will be wasted, apart from the loss of financial security and jobs.

Here, you’ll understand why a word for never giving up is necessary. If you think that the phrase “don’t ever give up” is cliché, then you’re about to have a better mindset about that view.

Not quitting enables you to use what you learned from your past mistakes to optimize future approaches to the problem. This means that you’ll be working smarter next time.
Not quitting enables you to take a fresh look at the problem from a different perspective. Your creativity will therefore be exercised in new ways.
Not quitting will make you less fearful of failing next time. In addition, there’ll be mental preparedness to face new challenges.

Real-life Stories about Never Giving Up

Are you ready to know five true stories about not giving up from different parts of the world? They’re the right kind of people to ask for a word for never giving up. Read on.

1. Jack Ma of Alibaba Group

Jack Ma founded Alibaba, which is now a multinational conglomerate based in China. Presently, he’s a billionaire with a net worth that has surpassed the 45 billion-dollar mark. He’s China’s richest person!

However, his success story didn’t start quickly. He was a child who had to redo his middle school entrance exam twice. The same thing happened when he wanted to gain admission into college—another double failure in the entrance exams! Ma also had a series of ten rejection letters from Harvard University. Talk about a very determined person. See why his words are among our list of never give up quotes.

Ma submitted about 30 job applications but got rejected each time. So when he was finally able to get a win—an interview at Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC)—he was the only one out of the applicants who were rejected.

Ma’s story of difficulty continued after he started Alibaba. The company didn’t become profitable until after a period of three years. All the Silicon Valley investors for who he requested funding declined. It got to a time when the company was nearing bankruptcy. This didn’t discourage Jack. His tenacity later yielded the great results that we know of today.

2. J. K. Rowling: Creator of Harry Potter

This British writer is perfect for our list… J. K. Rowling’s story gives us more reasons why the phrase “don’t ever give up” should be a mantra. We can start her story as a struggling writer from when she became a divorcee. She was living on government financial support at that time and could barely afford to feed her child.

Things were so hard that affording a computer or the cost of making manuscript copies was impossible. So instead, Rowling had to type out each draft of the voluminous Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone for submission to publishers. The drafts were rejected several times until Bloomsbury Publishing accepted a manuscript.

The book series is now a world-famous collection with many awards gained and over 500 million copies sold. It’s the all-time bestselling book series! Apart from that, Harry Potter is one of the top 5 all-time highest-grossing movie franchises. J. K. is worth over 1 billion dollars presently.

3. Nelson Mandela against Apartheid

Nelson Mandela was the most significant figure in the fight against the oppressive Apartheid regime. In 1993, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace due to his democratic take-over from the Apartheid government.

Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years (1962 to 1990) for conspiring against the Apartheid government. It was a life sentence, but he was released due to local and international pressure. Nelson had become 72 years old by then. Wasted life? No! He continued the struggle until the fight was won when he became president in 1994.

Madiba, as he’s fondly called, was a beacon of hope for many other anti-Apartheid activists while as a prisoner. His years of struggle against the segregationist government spanned a period of 51 years!

4. Why Oprah Winfrey’s Story Is Good Enough for Never Giving Up Inspiration

The American “Queen of all Media” went through a lot while growing up. She faced sexual abuse, molestation, racism, and early teenage pregnancy. Unfortunately, the baby died shortly after Winfrey gave birth. However, these experiences didn’t stop her from becoming an honors student at the end of high school—enabling her to win a college scholarship.

Winfrey started as an employee in a radio station before rising to become a world-renowned talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. Her net worth was about 2.7 billion USD as of March 2021.

5. Nick Vujicic’s Life without Limits

Vujicic is a very clear example of an individual who didn’t let his disability get in the way of his progress in life. He was born in Australia with tetra-amelia syndrome—a condition that involves having incompletely formed limbs (no arms and legs).

Vujicic grew up experiencing physical, emotional, and mental challenges. Bullies at school also picked on him. All these got a young Nick to the point of attempting suicide at age 10. Thankfully, Nick later accepted his condition and decided to become an agent of positive change.

Now he’s an international inspirational speaker and bestselling author who also paints swims, surfs, and skydives! He has been to over 57 countries! Amazing, right?! See?? Don’t ever give up! Oh, we can’t forget to mention that Vujicic is happily married with four children.

Watch this YouTube video for another true story of not giving up:

Powerful Inspirational true story…Never give up!

15 Inspiring Never Giving Up Quotes

Quotes on trying can help you stay motivated and boost your morale. That’s why we’ve presented 15 don’t quit quotes from 15 famous people. So now, without further ado, on to our never ever give up quotes!

“Instead of letting your hardships and failures discourage or exhaust you, let them inspire you.”
- Michelle Obama
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
- Nelson Mandela
“Keep moving forward.”
- Walt Disney
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
“Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.”
- Jack Ma
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
- Margaret Thatcher
“When you give up on life, never give up on yourself, because there is so much for you to keep on giving!”
- Oprah Winfrey
“Never, never, never give up.”
- Winston Churchill
“No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel.”
- Demi Lovato
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
- Albert Einstein
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
- Thomas Edison
“Your victory is right around the corner. Never give up.”
- Nicki Minaj
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.”
- Maya Angelou
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
- Confucius
“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
- Henry Ford

How to Build “Never Give Up” Attitude?

Never giving up is not only an attitude. It is also a skill that you develop through regular practice. Here are five tips on how to develop it.

1. Stay motivated:

It’s important to stay motivated and positive when building a never-give-up attitude. This can be done by setting goals, focusing on successes, and visualizing your desired outcome.

2. Avoid negative self-talk:

Don’t let negative thoughts or self-doubt keep you from achieving your goals. Instead, replace any negative thoughts with positive ones.

3. Stay positive at work:

No one wants to work with someone who is always negative. However, maintaining a positive attitude at work will make you more pleasant to be around and could lead to better opportunities.

4. Avoid procrastination:

Putting things off only makes them harder to do in the end. If you find yourself putting things off, break them down into small tasks and complete one task at a time.

5. Build on your successes:

So you didn’t achieve all of your goals today; that doesn’t mean you won’t tomorrow. So instead, focus on what you did accomplish and build on those short-term wins.

If you follow these steps, you will soon be on your way to building an unbreakable never give up attitude.

You can also take this course on Teachable for a guided learning approach: The Power of Attitude. Students will learn about eight attitudes that can affect their lives positively and significantly

Conclusion

Never give up on your dreams. Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. If you want something badly enough, go out and get it.

Remember, the only way to fail is to quit. Never giving up attitude is all you need to succeed in anything you do. So never give up and never surrender!

Remember these real-life stories about never giving up – these will inspire you. Also, note the never giving up quotes – check back whenever you feel down.

The last word for never giving up? Ensure you’re on the right path that’s related to your passion, and not doing what someone else or society pressured you to do.

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Be Happy Quotes and Sayings

1. “Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.” —Buddha

2. “One joy scatters a hundred griefs.” —Chinese Proverb

3. “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” —Mark Twain

4. “Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.” —Hosea Ballou

5. “If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.” —Roy T. Bennett

6. “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.” —Mark Twain

7. “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” —Ayn Rand

8. “Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.” —Mildred Barthel

9. “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” —Roy T. Bennett

10. “There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.” —Lady Blessington

11. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” —Marcus Aurelius

13. “Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking.” —H.W. Byles

14. “Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.” —Gretta Brooker Palmer

15. “Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” —Guillaume Apollinaire

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

17. “Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.” —Bernard Meltzer

18. “A sure way to lose happiness, is to want it at the expense of everything else.” —Bette Davis

19. “Whoever is happy will make others happy.” —Anne Frank

20. “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” —Steve Maraboli

21. “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” —Chuck Palahniuk

22. “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” —Gabriel García Márquez

23. “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” —George Sand

24. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” —Mother Theresa

25. “Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” —Helen Keller

26. “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” —William James

27. “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” —Charles Spurgeon

28. “An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.” —Lydia M. Child

29. “If you want to be happy, be.” —Leo Tolstoy

30. “Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.” —H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

31. Be happy and Smile

32. Create your own Happiness

33. Happiness is like Jam

34. We all deserve to be Happy

35. Be Happy Quotes by Leo Tolstoy

36. A good life is full of Happy Moments

37. Be Happy Quotes by Anne Frank

38. Never lose Happiness

39. Find reasons to be Happy

40. Happiness is a Journey

41. Don’t Worry, Be Positive

42. Don’t be afraid to Walk away

43. Be Happy in times of Sadness

44. Decisions that lead to Happiness

45. Happiness is a result of your Choices

46. Do what makes you Happy

47. Be Happy and Be Positive

48. Be Happy, It drives people Crazy

49. Count the Reasons to be Happy

50. Be Happy Quotes by Hellen Keller

51. Pursuit of Happiness

52. Hard work leads to a Beautiful Life

53. Life itself is the Reason

54. Simple Rules to be Happy

55. Be Happy by Frederick Keong

56. Acceptance leads to Happiness

57. Seek Happiness

58. Make others Happy

59. Think Happy

60. Happy Quote by Dalai Lama

61. Be Happy Again

62. Decide to be Happy

63. Be Yourself

64. Don’t be Miserable

65. Surround yourself with Loved Ones

66. Just Let It Be

67. Be Happy With What You Have

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