Feeling the need for a quick burst of happiness to brighten your day?
Here are 10 short and engaging quotes that are perfect for optimistic women who love a touch of inspiration.
These quotes offer just the right mix of positivity and motivation to lift your spirits anytime.
Let’s jump right in!
My favorite short happy quotes for optimistic women
#1
“Man is the artificer of his own happiness.”
— Henry David Thoreau
In a world full of fleeting moments, finding happiness often feels like a challenge.
The quote “Man is the artificer of his own happiness” stands out to me as a guiding principle.
It reminds me that happiness is something we craft ourselves, not something we wait for and encourages taking charge of my own joy, emphasizing that I have the power to shape my life through choices and mindset.
9 more short happy quotes for optimistic women
#2
“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
— Charlotte Brontë
#3
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4
“The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#5
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
— Mark Twain
#6
“Happiness is a habit – cultivate it.”
— Elbert Hubbard
#7
“True Happiness had no localities,
No tones provincial no peculiar garb.”
— Robert Pollok
#8
“Seeking for happiness we must go slowly;
The road leads not down avenues of haste;
But often gently winds through by ways lowly.”
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#9
“Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it will soon be so.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
#10
“Happiness is the legal tender of the soul.”
— Robert Green Ingersoll