100 Always Choose Happiness Quotes To Inspire You

Is it possible to choose happiness? To be in control of such an important part of our daily lives? I believe so and today I’m sharing my favorite choose happiness quotes to remind you that you too can be in control of your happiness – if you so choose.

These powerful quotes will show us:

• How we can choose happiness today
• What it means to be happy
• Inspiration to keep going and look for happiness even in tough times

Is Happiness Really A Choice?

Depending on who you are there are differing opinions on whether you believe happiness is a choice or not.

In my personal opinion, I believe we can all choose happiness in life. Yes, we will have tough times; tragedy, grief, uncertainty – but we can still choose happiness.

I hope these words of wisdom below will inspire you to see that happiness truly is a choice.

Related: Happiness is a Choice: 12 Ways To Choose Happiness Today

100 Always Choose Happiness Quotes

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

2. Happiness is always a choice. You can’t wait for circumstances to get better. You have to create your own good fortune. So look for ways to be happy every day. – Joel Osteen

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

4. “The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.” – Norman Vincent Peale

6. “When faced with a choice, choose happy.” – Valerie Bertinelli

7. “A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.” – Albert Einstein

8. “Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.” – Helen Keller

9. “Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I’ve learned, that’s the path to happiness.” – Lesley Ann Warren

10. “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.” – Valerie Bertinelli

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

– Victor Hugo

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

13. “It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while.” – Mark Twain

14. “The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.” – Hannah Arendt

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

16. “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

17. “Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.” – Leo Tolstoy

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

19. “You are only excused for happiness and success if you generously agree to share them. But if one is to be happy, one should not worry too much about other people – which means there is no way out. Happy and judged or absolved and miserable.” – Albert Camus

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

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

22. “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.” – Jim Rohn

23. “The biggest reason for choosing happiness is that there is no reason to choose bitterness.” – Nitin Namdeo

25. “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

26. “I never understood the point of being sad when I could choose to be happy.” – Megan McCafferty

27. “Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations, you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.” – Dalai Lama

Today I Choose Happiness Quotes

Wise words and insight to help you choose happiness today and every day.

29. “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

30. “Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”

– James Dean

31. “Today, I choose life. Every morning when I wake up, I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices—today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.” – Kevyn Aucoin

32. “A happy man is too satisfied with the present to think too much about the future.” – Albert Einstein

33. “Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them.” – Robert R. Updegraff

34. “The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.” – William James

35. “Two things prevent us from happiness: living in the past and judging others” – Paulo Coelho

37. “When you get up in the morning, you have two choices—either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy.” – Norman Vincent Peale

38. “Choose to be happy and make inner peace your mission is the best way to live life. Now organize your life to attain these.” – Debasish Mridha 

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

40. “You have to realize that happiness is not something you find at the end of the road. You have to understand that it is here, now.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

41. “Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There’s no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars.” – Carrie Hope Fletcher

42. “I can choose my focus! I can choose whether to look at what feels awful, what terrifies me, or robs me of hope, or to what builds me up, delights, makes me happy and giggle. This is all I need to know to have a wonderful day, today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow.” – Elke Heinrich

43. “Choose life, choose to be happy, and make somebody smile.” – Ray S. Jones 

44. “Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields…Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.” – Mary Oliver

45. “How you choose to feel today should not be dependent on others.” – Anthon St. Maarten

46. “Decide that life is good and you are special. Decide to enjoy today. Decide that you will live life to the fullest now, no matter what. Trust that you will change what needs changing, but also decide that you’re not going to put off enjoying life just because you don’t have everything you want now. Steadfastly refuse to let anything steal your joy. Choose to be happy… and you will be.” – Donna Fargo

48. “Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha

49. “Life is going by. Don’t waste a minute being negative, offended, or bitter. Choose to be happy.” – Joel Osteen

The Meaning Of Happiness Quotes

These happiness quotes will help you reflect on the true meaning of happiness. After all, what happiness means to you and I, may differ. However, from what you’ll see below, the quest for happiness can be recognized in many similar ways.

51. “The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” – James M. Barrie

52. “Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are. It solely relies on what you think.” – Buddha

53. “The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

54. 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

55. “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

56. “Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give – pleasure, possessions, power – but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.” – Dada Vaswani

57. “Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.” – Iris Murdoch

58. ​​“If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.” – Bertrand Russell

59. “Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

– Gerard Way

60. Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don’t collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don’t really mean anything.” – Norman Lear

61. “The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.” – Doug Larson 

62. “Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate that which they already have.” – Buddha

63. “Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don’t agree but I can learn something.” – Maya Angelou

64. “Happiness in your heart is directly proportional to the quality of thoughts in your mind.” – Asma Naqi

65. “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

66. “True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.” – Seneca

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

68. “Happiness blooms naturally in the hearts of those who are inwardly free. It flows spontaneously, like a mountain spring after April showers, in minds that are contented with simple living.” – Paramhansa Yogananda

70. “Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

71. “It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.” – Thomas Jefferson

Wise Quotes To Help You Choose Happiness

Making a commitment to yourself to choose happiness is one of the best things you’ll ever do for yourself (and those around you). Once you make the choice, your outlook on life will expand and you’ll begin to find contentment and joy all around.

73. “Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your own heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there, as long as you live, to make you happy again.” – Anne Frank

74. “Some pursue happiness – others create it.” – Helen Rowland

75. “Happiness doesn’t depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

77. “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” – Jim Rohn

78. “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

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

80. “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

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

82. “Don’t stay in a bad situation, whether it is a relationship or a job, out of fear of failure. It’s not a failure to walk away and choose to be happy. It takes a lot of courage.” – Danielle Trussoni 

83. “I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.”

– Paulo Coelho

84. “Whatever creates or increases happiness or some part of happiness, we ought to do; whatever destroys or hampers happiness, or gives rise to its opposite, we ought not to do.” – Aristotle

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

86. “Saying yes to happiness means learning to say no to things and people that stress you out.” – Thelma Davis

87. “I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.” – Brené Brown

88. “We need joy as we need air. We need love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.” – Maya Angelou

90. “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

91. “Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.” – Alan Cohen

92. “Nothing has to happen for me to feel good! I feel good because I’m alive! Life is a gift, and I revel in it.” – Tony Robbins

93. “Happiness can exist only in acceptance.” – George Orwell

94. “Happiness is not a feeling, it is a choice. To be happy, one must choose to be happy, not respond to a circumstance that now controls your happiness.” – Joyce Meyer

95. “Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.” – Stephen R. Covey

96. “Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.” – Mother Teresa

97. “One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy.”

– Leo Tolstoy

98. “When you’re in the middle of an argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be right or be happy? When you choose the joyous, loving, spiritual mode, your connection to intention is strengthened.” – Wayne Dyer

99. “The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.” – Eckhart Tolle

100. “I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.” – Baron Alexander von Humboldt

Final Thoughts

I hope these inspiring words remind you that you can choose to be happy. It really comes down to mindset for many of us.

Sure, there are rough patches, but even during challenging times we have a decision to make – whether to look for the light or stay in the dark.

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