In psychology, a mood is an affective state. In contrast to emotions or feelings, moods are less specific, less intense and less likely to be provoked or instantiated by a particular stimulus or event. Inspirational mood quotes will brighten up your day and make you feel ready to take on anything.
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Most Famous Mood Quotes
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 depends upon ourselves. Aristotle
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. Ashley Montagu
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
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. Thich Nhat Hanh
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. Dalai Lama
Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other in Life. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up its Place. Hazelmarie Elliott
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
We don’t laugh because we’re happy we’re happy because we laugh. William James
It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. Lucille Ball
Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory. Albert Schweitzer
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
I am very happy because I have conquered myself and not the world. I am very happy because I have loved the world and not myself. Sri Chinmoy
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. Oscar Wilde
Happiness, not in another place but this place not for another hour, but this hour. Walt Whitman
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
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
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
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open. Rose Lane
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
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
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go. Dodinsky
I’d far rather be happy than right any day. Douglas Adams
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. James Oppenheim
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
Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. Abraham Lincoln
If someone bases his her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness. Andy Rooney
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
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. Andre Maurois
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does. James M. Barrie
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
Be happy. It’s one way of being wise. Colette
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln
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
If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you. Lao Tzu
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. Andrew Carnegie
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
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Margaret Lee Runbeck
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. George Bernard Shaw
True happiness is not attained through self gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller
Rules for happiness something to do, someone to love, something to hope for. Immanuel Kant
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. Bernard Meltzer
I figure, sometimes, bad things happen to us so we can achieve a higher purpose and attain greater happiness and fulfillment in life. Omoakhuana Anthonia
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. Carl Jung
The most important thing is to enjoy your life to be happy it’s all that matters. Audrey Hepburn
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
Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle
We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you’re doing is in the doing of it. It’s not what you’re gonna get in the end it’s not the final curtain it’s really in the doing it, and loving what you’re doing. Ralph Lauren
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam
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
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life. Henrik Ibsen
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them. Steve Maraboli
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is the best makeup. Drew Barrymore
There’s nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons. Stephen Chbosky
Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy. Roy T. Bennett
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. John Lennon
The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage. Carrie Jones
The most important thing is to enjoy your life to be happy it’s all that matters. Audrey Hepburn
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness. Drew Barrymore
Happiness is a warm puppy. Charles M. Schulz
Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life. Roy T. Bennett
Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world. Orhan Pamuk
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy. Sylvia Plath
All happiness depends on courage and work. Honoré de Balzac
Laughing brains are more absorbent. Alton Brown
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Mother Teresa
I’ve got nothing to do today but smile. Paul Simon
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed? Hunter S. Thompson
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. Rita Mae Brown
Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Guillaume Apollinaire
Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration. Pat Conroy
Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them. Steve Maraboli
Embrace the glorious mess that you are. Elizabeth Gilbert
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.
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. Benjamin Franklin
I’m choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I’m making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet to come surprises. Elizabeth Gilbert
Being happy never goes out of style. Lilly Pulitzer
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
Stay positive and happy. Work hard and don’t give up hope. Be open to criticism and keep learning. Surround yourself with happy, warm and genuine people. Tena Desae
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. Martha Washington
All happiness depends on courage and work. Honoré de Balzac
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind. Daphne du Maurier
The purpose of our lives is to be happy. Dalai Lama
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
The word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. Carl Jung
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. William James
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. Booth Tarkington
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. Oprah Winfrey
I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy. Will Arnett
All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen. Conan O’Brien
Happiness is not a goal it’s a byproduct of a life well lived. Eleanor Roosevelt
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. Charlotte Brontë
Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy. Roy T. Bennett
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. Epictetus
I think it’s important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy. Paula Cole
Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect but that you have looked beyond its imperfections. Bob Marley
Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure. Arthur Schopenhauer
One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience. George Sand
Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Helen Keller
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes. C.S. Lewis
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
The truly wise and happy are never rushed. Maxime Lagacé
Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside. Peter Deunov
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Dalai Lama
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons We must fight in order to conquer it. Alexandre Dumas
