Even one word can make a big difference.
These good vibes quotes are inspiring words of wisdom by mostly timeless classics who never cease to dazzle us with their quick wit, poetic thinking, and keen observation of life.
I hope their sayings will touch your heart, lift your mood, and motivate you to choose happiness and inspiration over everything else.
And, yes, seeing the glass half full is always a choice.
So here they are, 74 good vibes quotes for a much happier, better life.
Good Vibes Quotes to Live By
“If you feel happy, Smile with all your heart. If you’re down, smile with all your might.”
Paul Ian Guillermo
“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.”
Anthony J. Dangelo
“Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise.”
Victor Hugo
“Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it.”
Ray Bradbury
“Where there is love, there is life.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”
Oscar Wilde
“Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.”
Walt Whitman
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
Nicolas Chamfort
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
Socrates
“But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.”
Vincent Van Gogh
Poetic Good Vibes Quotes
“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.”
William W. Purkey
“If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird’s life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird’s heart?”
James Joyce
“Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.”
Thomas Mann
“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that’s the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can’t hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that’s all.”
Jack Kerouac
“I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy as I go walking along the same river.”
Zhuangzi
“The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man, it is to know that and to wonder at it.”
Jacques Yves Cousteau
“I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows, or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.”
Ray Bradbury
“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in—what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”
Victor Hugo
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Good Vibes Quotes for a Better Mood
“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”
Voltaire
“Life is good. What else could you want?”
John Lennon
“Men are born to succeed, not to fail.”
Henry David Thoreau
“May you live every day of your life.”
Jonathan Swift
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.”
Walt Whitman
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …”
Marcus Aurelius
“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize nothing is lacking, the world belongs to you.”
Lao Tzu
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
Albert Einstein
“You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct, and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.”
Napoleon Hill
“Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”
Mark Twain
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
Napoleon Hill
“I’ve decided to be happy because it’s good for my health.”
Voltaire
“I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”
Walt Whitman
“That’s my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck’s back. If it’s not positive, I didn’t hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.”
George Foreman
“People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things to just touch those things and make them bloom?”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
Bertrand Russell
Good Vibes Quotes About Happiness, to Be All Smiles
“But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?”
Albert Camus
“When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.”
Joseph Roux
“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
Oscar Wilde
“True happiness is … to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
Seneca
“Some day, you will find out that there is far more happiness in another’s happiness than in your own.”
Honoré de Balzac
“Happy is the man who has broken the chains that hurt the mind and has given up worrying once and for all.”
Ovid
“Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.”
Bertolt Brecht
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
John Lennon
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust
“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
“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“Most smiles are started by another smile.”
Frank A. Clark
“Smiling is very important … It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity to smile, breathe, and be at peace that we can make peace.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Good Vibes Quotes about Positivity and Making a Difference
“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
William Shakespeare
“Laughter is sunshine; it chases winter from the human face.”
Victor Hugo
“That best portion of a man’s life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
William Wordsworth
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
Leo Buscaglia
“Atticus, he was real nice.”
“Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”
Harper Lee
“The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.”
Mark Twain
“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.”
Siddhārtha Gautama
“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Aesop
I hope these good vibes quotes became a game-changer and inspired you to stay positive, see the world in a better light, and do good (today and every day:)) ❤️
P.S.
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