Are you smiling right now? Because you should be — not only is March 20 the first day of spring, it just so happens to also be International Day of Happiness, a holiday that's likely not marked on your calendar, but is important all the same. If the prospects of sunshine, longer days, and warmer weather don't have you grinning, perhaps these happiness quotes will do the trick. Take a gander and see if you aren't glowing by the end of this list. I told you, there's a lot to be cheerful about today. Happy Quotes That Make Celebrating International Day Of Happiness That Much Better.

1. Whoever is happy will make others happy too. –Anne Frank

2. The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters. –Audrey Hepburn

3. Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be. –Abraham Lincoln

4. The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are. –Goldie Hawn

5. Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. –Marcus Aurelius

6. Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether you let it affect you or not. –Valerie Bertinelli

7. If you want to be happy, be. –Leo Tolstoy

8. Be happy. It’s one way of being wise. –Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

9. If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. –Dalai Lama

10. There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don’t necessarily want to be like them. I’m too happy being myself. –James D’arcy

11. A well-spent day brings happy sleep. –Leonardo da Vinci

12. The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have. –Woody Allen

13. Don’t waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door. –Brooke Shields

14. Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. –Immanuel Kant

15. It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. –Benjamin Franklin

16. If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. –Orson Welles

17. Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. –Ovid

18. The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. –Henry Ward Beecher

19. Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself. –Alice Walker

20. The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. –Mother Teresa

21. In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word. –Walt Whitman

International Day of Happiness holds considerable importance, reminding all of us to find happiness in the small and beautiful occurrence around us. On the occasion of International Day of Happiness 2021, people will be sharing several posts on what it is that makes them happy along with the hashtag #InternationalDayofHappiness.

Happiness means different to different people, but the below quotes are sure to inspire you and will even be helpful to share on your Facebook, Twitter and Instagram profiles. Make sure you smile at someone today!