Quotes don’t have to be long and wordy to be fun and impactful, so we have put together a list of all the best tiny happy quotes for you to share. And if you’re looking for short tiny happy quotes for Instagram, we also have you covered.
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Tiny Happy Quotes
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“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
“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.” – Lou Holtz
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” – Stephen Hawking
“It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness.” – Richard Branson
“All happiness depends on courage and work.” – Honoré de Balzac
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns
“Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.” – Muhammad Ali
“If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.” – Epicurus
“Happiness is a warm puppy.” – Charles M. Schulz
“And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.” – Confucius
“The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” – George Washington Burnap
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” – Roald Dahl
“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” – Rita Mae Brown
“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.” – Ayn Rand
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” – Guillaume Apollinaire
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.” – Ashley Montagu
“Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.” – Benjamin Franklin
“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” – Diane Ackerman
“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.” – William Arthur Ward
“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” – John Harrigan
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“If you want something, don’t wish for it. Life is too short to wait.” – Stephen Hines
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature…. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller
“We become what we think about.” – Earl Nightingale
“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon” – Winnie the Pooh
“There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.” – Stephen Chbosky
“Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.” – Gina Greenlee
“Our time in this life is limited. And how we respect that time will create a greater possibility for fulfilment.” – Ruben Papian
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” – James Oppenheim
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” – Marcel Pagnol
“A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.” – Albert Einstein
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.” – Paulo Coelho
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Marthe Troly-Curtin
“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.” – Rose Lane
“I may be a living legend, but that sure don’t help when I’ve got to change a flat tire.” – Roy Orbison
“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.” – Marquis de Condorcet
“Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard
“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get” – W. P. Kinsella
“The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.” – Epictetus
“Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.” – John Henry Jowett
“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” – Albert Schweitzer
“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” – Louisa May Alcott
“Life is short and you’ve got to get the most out of it.” – Gwen Stefani
“Enjoy every moment you have. Because in life, there are no rewinds, only flashbacks.” – Anmol Andore
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
“Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.” – Dr. Robert Anthony
“True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.” -Helen Keller
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” – Anne Frank
“Happiness [is] only real when shared” – Jon Krakauer
“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?” – Albert Einstein
“The mere sense of living is joy enough.” – Emily Dickinson
“There is great happiness in not wanting, in not being something, in not going somewhere.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
“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.” – Dale Carnegie
“Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.” – Milton Erickson
“Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.” – Herman Hesse
“Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.” – Walt Disney
“It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.” – Seneca
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it’s all that matters.” – Audrey Hepburn
“Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.” – Cullen Hightower
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” – Andrew Carnegie
“On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a playful, joyous energy behind what you do.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.” – Heraclitus
“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.” – Douglas Adams
“Let’s not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember ‘Life is too short to be little.” – Dale Carnegie
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” – Ernest Hemingway
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
“Enjoy life while you can. It can be taken in a heartbeat.” – Jasmin Morin
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy.” – Leo Buscaglia
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
“Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.” – Friedrich Schiller
“Children are happy because they don’t have a file in their minds called “All the Things That Could Go Wrong.” – Marianne Williamson
“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
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.” – Will Rogers
“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 a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.” – Charles Dickens
“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.” – Dennis Waitley
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” – Confucius
“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
“If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.” – Buddha
“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.” – Robert Frost
“Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.” – Carrie Underwood
“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.” – Mary Lou Retton
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist.” – Oscar Wilde
“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
“Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.” – Joseph Campbell
“Roll with the punches and enjoy every minute of it.” – Meghan Markle
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A. Heinlein
“The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.” – Brian Tracy
“Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.” – Benjamin Franklin
“The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are.” – Goldie Hawn
“Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.” – Seneca
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.” – George Sand
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
“The only joy in the world is to begin.” – Cesare Pavese
“Be happy. It really annoys negative people.” – Ricky Gervais
“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
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.” – Mark Twain
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” – Anton Chekhov
“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.” – Gustave Flaubert
“Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.” – Leo Tolstoy
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Happiness is a state of activity.” – Aristotle
“It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” – Lucille Ball
“Embrace your uniqueness. Time is much too short to be living someone else’s life.” – Kobi Yamada
“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” – Andy Rooney
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The truly wise and happy are never rushed.” – Maxime Lagacé
“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
“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.” – Martha Washington
“Independence is happiness.” – Susan B. Anthony
“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.” – Andre Maurois
“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Simplicity makes me happy.” – Alicia Keys
“Happiness does not lead to gratitude. Gratitude leads to happiness.” – David Steindl-Rast
“The constant happiness is curiosity.” – Alice Munro
“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” – Dale Carnegie
“Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that.” – Stacey Charter
“Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise Delany
“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“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
“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.” – Mary Stuart
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Herman Cain
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” – Albert Camus
“Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Happiness is not doing fun things. Happiness is doing meaningful things.” – Maxime Lagacé
“Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.” – Winnie the Pooh
“That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.” – Henry David Thoreau
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” – Roy T. Bennett
“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.” – G.K. Chesterton
“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Life is too short to live on low-fat everything.” – Kristin Scott Thomas
So that is it for our list of Tiny Happy Quotes. We hope you found the perfect one for you!
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