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Love and light! According to experts such as the Dalai Lama, happiness starts from within, and these happy quotes capture that sentiment perfectly.
After browsing our joyful list, share these quotes with your family and friends, and empower others with uplifting life quotes from your favorite chanteuse or Hollywood starlet. You might also promote positivity and joy with quotes from mental health ambassadors like Meghan Markle, or turn that frown upside-down with wise words from the iconic Bob Ross.
These happy quotes will give you sense of bliss and are certain to put a smile on your face. Think of them as pep talks in tiny packages: The following calming statements from scholars and wordsmiths alike will be the cure if you happen to have less spring in your step these days! If you're seeking more ways to bring happiness and joy into your daily routine, be sure to check out our list of daily affirmations and inspirational quotes too.
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Beyoncé
Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you.
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Oprah Winfrey
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
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Bob Ross
Beauty is everywhere. You only have to look to see it.
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Jon Kabat Zinn
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to swim.
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Eckhart Tolle
Life is the dancer and you are the dance.
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Carrie Underwood
Every day is a new day.
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Julia Alvarez
The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.
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Gabriel García Márquez
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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Unknown
When you love what you have, you have everything you need.
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Maya Angelou
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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Audrey Hepburn
The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy. It's all that matters.
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Dalai Lama
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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Elizabeth Gilbert
Embrace the glorious mess that you are.
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Lilly Pulitzer
Being happy never goes out of style.
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Drew Barrymore
Happiness is the best makeup.
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Meghan Markle
Roll with the punches and enjoy every minute of it.
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Emily Dickinson
The mere sense of living is joy enough.
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Goldie Hawn
The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are.
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Unknown
Happiness comes in waves. It'll find you again.
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Leo Tolstoy
If you want to be happy, be.
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Unknown
Start each day with a grateful heart.
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Unknown
Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like.
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Mother Teresa
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier.
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Unknown
When it rains, look for rainbows. When it's dark, look for stars.
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Roald Dahl
If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.
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David Lee Roth
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
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John Barrymore
Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
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Alice Walker
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
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Henry Ward Beecher
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Caroline Picard Contributing Writer Caroline is a writer and editor with almost a decade of experience.
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