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Our 22 Favorite Quotes About Happiness in 2022

At the end of the day, life is about finding what makes us happy. Whether it’s succeeding at a fulfilling job, listening to beautiful music, or raising a loving family, there are countless ways to experience joy and contentment.

There are times, of course, when life’s challenges seem to take over, but in those moments it’s important to recognize that brighter days are ahead, and we can always be grateful for life’s wonderful moments. This year on Inspiring Quotes, we showcased many words of wisdom about the power of positivity and the true meaning of happiness. This roundup features 22 of our favorites — we hope they help turn your attention to your own sources of joy, and serve as a reminder that happiness is always within reach.

Live, and be happy, and make others so.
Mary Shelley

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Happiness is not a goal, it’s a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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It's only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Margaret Bonnano

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Joy is not in things, it is in us.
Charles Wagner

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A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
Helen Keller

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Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness — it has no taste.
Charlotte Brontë

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The meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness.
Terry Pratchett

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Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.
Paulo Coelho

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Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson

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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
Pericles

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Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.
Thích Nhất Hạnh

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Happiness is a simple, frugal heart.
Nikos Kazantzakis

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

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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
Daisaku Ikeda

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It is a happy talent to know how to play.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy.
William Carlos Williams

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Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aurelius

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

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There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
Vicki Baum

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

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Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny.
Joan Rivers

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