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If you're looking for inspiration or need a little pick-me-up, I've gathered some of the best quotes on life and happiness.
These quotes are perfect for writing down in journals, using on your social media captions, or sharing with a friend when they need a little motivational cheering up.
Finding joy in our lives is on us, and we have to focus on the positives and remind ourselves to always be appreciative of all the simple things in every day that we have to be grateful for, even on the hard days.
I hope this collection of quotes makes you smile and is the inspiration you're looking for today.
XOXO
Emily
50 INSPIRING QUOTES ON LIFE AND HAPPINESS
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1. "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.
2. "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." – Oprah Winfrey
3. "The best way to predict the future is to create it." – Peter Drucker
4. "This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy." - Susan Polis Schutz
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5. "Life only comes around once, so do whatever makes you happy, and be with whoever makes you smile." - unknown
6. "Don’t be ashamed of loving the strange things that make your weird little heart happy." – Elizabeth Gilbert
7. "Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw
8. "In the end only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you." - Buddha
9. "Lighten up, just enjoy life, smile more, laugh more, and don’t get so worked up about things" - Kenneth Branagh
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11. "Life is like a camera. Focus on what is important. Capture the good time. Develop from the negatives. And if things don’t work out, take another shot." -unknown
12. "Keep smiling because life is a beautiful thing, and there is so much to smile about." - Marilyn Monroe
13. "Life is short, fragile, and does not wait for anyone. There will never be a perfect time to pursue your dreams and goals other than right now." - Rachael Bermingham
14. "Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it." - George Halas
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15. "Never regret a day in your life. Good days give you happiness & bad days give you experience."
16. "The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
17. "Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life." - Teri Garr
18. "Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth." - Mallory Hopkins
19. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
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21 "Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas A. Edison
22. "Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking." - Marcus Aurelius
23. "Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman
24. "Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something." - Ashton Kutcher
25. "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get." - Forrest Gump
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50 INSPIRING QUOTES ON LIFE AND HAPPINESS
26. "Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you." – Ralph Marston
27. "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
28. "The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts." – Marcus Aurelius
29. " 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
30. "Somedays you just have to create your own sunshine." – Sam Sundquist
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32. " Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life." - Omar Khayyam
33. "Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open." - Rose Lane
34. "Spread love everywhere you go, Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." - "Mother Teresa
35. "Two things that prevent us from happiness; living in the past and observing others."
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36. "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
37. " Happiness depends upon ourselves" - Aristotle
38. " A wise man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise man grows it under his feet." - James Oppenheim
39. " Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is." - Mandy Hale
40. "Smile, it's the first key that fits the lock of everybody's heart." - Anthony J. D'Angelo
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41. "We're only here for so long. Be happy, man. You could be hit by a truck tomorrow" - Timothee Chalamet
42. "We don't laugh because we are happy, we're happy because we laugh." - William James
43. " If it makes you happy it doesn't have to make sense to others." - unknown
44. " Be happy, not because everything is good, but because you can see the good in everything." - unknown
45. "If you aren't grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more." - Roy. T. Bennett
46. "Learn to value yourself, which means; fight for your hap
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piness." - Ayn Rand
47. " Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times." Aeschylus
48. " Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections." - Gerard Way
49. " For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
50. " Happiness comes in waves, it will find you again." - unknown
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