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QUOTES ABOUT HAPPINESS

 

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

 

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. Mark Twain

 

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it. Lou Holtz

 

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. Marcus Aurelius

 

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QUOTES ON HAPPINESS

 

Happiness depends upon ourselves. Aristotle

 

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Marthe Troly-Curtin

 

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh. William James

 

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. Rita Mae Brown

 

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness. Steve Maraboli

 

Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. Ludwig Jacobowski

 

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness. Frank Tyger

 

There is more to life than increasing its speed. Mahatma Gandhi

 

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 comes from peace. Peace comes from indifference. Naval Ravikant

 

Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Guillaume Apollinaire

 

That’s your unlimited desires that are clouding your peace, your happiness. Naval Ravikant

 

You can only have bliss if you don’t chase it. Henepola Gunaratana

 

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison

 

Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard

 

It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness. Richard Branson

 

If you want to be happy, be. Leo Tolstoy

 

If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more. Roy T. Bennett

 

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self. Joseph Addison

 

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

 

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What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. Colette

 

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. Thomas Jefferson

 

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. Anton Chekhov

 

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. Dale Carnegie

 

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour. Walt Whitman

 

It’s the little things in life.

 

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be. Abraham Lincoln

 

Everything is a gift of the universe – even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness.

 

Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment. Ken Keyes Jr

 

Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory. Albert Schweitzer

 

In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom. Buddha

 

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi

 

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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius

 

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. Dalai Lama

 

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness. Ayn Rand

 

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. Augustine of Hippo

 

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES ABOUT LIFE AND HAPPINESS

 

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. Friedrich Nietzsche

 

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Albert Einstein

 

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. Oprah Winfrey

 

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES HAPPINESS

 

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha

 

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

 

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. Ernest Hemingway

 

SHORT QUOTES ABOUT HAPPINESS

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles Spurgeon

 

All happiness depends on courage and work. Honoré de Balzac

 

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. George Sand

 

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. James Oppenheim

 

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam

 

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon. Winnie the Pooh

 

Whoever is happy will make others happy. Anne Frank

 

I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve. Jane Austen

 

I’m happy. Which often looks like crazy. David Henry Hwang

 

We forge the chains we wear in life. Charles Dickens

 

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

The constant happiness is curiosity. Alice Munro

 

SHORT HAPPINESS QUOTES

 

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. Seneca

 

No medicine cures what happiness cannot. Gabriel García Márquez

 

Happiness is acceptance. Unknown

 

The thicker the skin, the happier the man. Life Math Money

 

Happiness is a state where nothing is missing. Naval Ravikant

 

Doing what you were born to do… That’s the way to be happy. Agnes Martin

 

Be happy. It’s one way of being wise. Colette

 

Enjoy it. Because it’s happening. Stephen Chbosky

 

Being happy is not the only happiness. Alice Walker

 

THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS QUOTES

 

I have only two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy. Allen J. Lefferdink

 

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 does not lead to gratitude. Gratitude leads to happiness. David Steindl-Rast

 

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

 

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life. Henrik Ibsen

 

People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat – that’s the only moral they know. Dany Laferrière

 

LDS QUOTES ON HAPPINESS

 

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes. Charles Dickens

 

On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. William R. Inge

 

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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. Samuel Johnson

 

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Chuck Palahniuk

 

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. Andrew Carnegie

 

The greatest secret to happiness and peace is letting every life situation be what it is, instead of what you think it should be. Then, make the very best of it. Thibaut

 

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. Wayne Dyer

 

Today is life – the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today.Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. Dale Carnegie

 

QUOTES ABOUT LOVE AND HAPPINESS

 

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. Jim Rohn

 

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. Nelson Mandela

 

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. William Saroyan

 

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln

 

Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey

 

FUNNY HAPPINESS QUOTES

 

Some days I amaze myself. Other days I put my keys in the fridge. Unknown

 

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Gustave Flaubert

 

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. Lady Blessington

 

When someone told me I lived in a fantasy land I nearly fell of my unicorn. Unknown

 

Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth. Unknown

 

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. Unknown

 

Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. Shari R. Barr

 

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. Mark Twain

 

The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1. Unknown

 

Happiness does not have a price tag so smile. Unknown

 

You can’t buy happiness but you can buy ice cream. And that’s kind of the same thing. Unknown

 

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. Janet Lane

 

Be happy. It really annoys negative people. Ricky Gervais

 

FAMOUS HAPPINESS QUOTES

 

Be you. Do you. For you. Unknown

 

Happy girls are the prettiest. Audrey Hepburn

 

Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment. Unknown

 

Happiness: A butterfly, which when pursued, seems always just beyond your grasp; but if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you. Daily Crescent

 

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. Bernard Meltzer

 

QUOTES ABOUT HAPPINESS AND SMILING

 

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. Robert S. Lynd

 

Usefulness is happiness, and… all other things are but incidental. Lydia Maria Child, The American Frugal Housewife

 

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Robert Frost

 

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. Aristotle

 

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INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES ABOUT HAPPINESS

 

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it. Robert Brault

 

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. Bertrand Russell

 

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. Niccolo Machiavelli

 

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

 

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Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine. Henry Ward Beecher

 

Sometimes we don’t find the thing that will make us happy because we can’t give up the thing that was supposed to. Robert Brault

 

Not wanting something is as good as having it. Naval Ravikant

 

If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us. Richard Carlson

 

School, politics, sports, and games train us to compete against others. True rewards – wealth, knowledge, love, fitness, and equanimity – come from ignoring others and improving ourselves. Naval Ravikant

 

Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice. Naval Ravikant

 

There is great happiness in not wanting, in not being something, in not going somewhere. Jiddu Krishnamurti

 

TRUE HAPPINESS QUOTES

 

One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows. Chinese proverb

 

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. Mother Teresa

 

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

 

Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson. Alan Cohen

 

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations. Jodi Picoult

 

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. Arthur Schopenhauer

 

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QUOTES ABOUT HAPPINESS AND LOVE

 

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. Aristotle

 

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Reinhold Niebuhr

 

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. Carl Sandburg

 

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life. Germaine Greer

 

Happiness is the default state. It’s what’s there when you remove the sense that something is missing in life. Naval Ravikant

 

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark

 

QUOTES ABOUT FIND HAPPINESS

 

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time. C. JoyBell C.

 

Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else. Nathaniel Branden

 

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy. Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? Yevgeny Zamyatin

 

QUOTES ABOUT HAPPINESS AND LIFE

 

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. Unknown

 

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way. Thich Nhat Hanh

 

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. John Stuart Mill

 

BIBLE QUOTES ABOUT HAPPINESS

 

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day. W. Beran Wolfe

 

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. Logan Pearsall Smith

 

I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success. Diego Val

 

Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. Benjamin Franklin

 

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

HAPPINESS IS QUOTES

 

The only disability in life is a bad attitude. Scott Hamilton

 

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

 

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Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Søren Kierkegaard

 

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not. George Bernard Shaw

 

Find a place where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. Joseph Campbell

 

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus

 

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? Albert Camus

 

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. Epictetus

HAPPINESS QUOTES ABOUT LOVE

 

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever. John Ruskin

 

Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they’re moving toward getting it. That’s what makes life feel good: when it has direction, when you are heading straight for what you love. Barbara Sher

 

Love is a that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. Robert A. Heinlein

 

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved. Lafcadio Hearn

 

Once you do something you love, you never have to work again. Willie Hill

 

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People happy in love have an air of intensity. Stendhal

 

Living our life deeply and with happiness, having time to care for our loved ones, this is another kind of success, another kind of power, and it is much more important. Thich Nhat Hanh

 

Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest. Sri Chinmoy

 

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Teresa

 

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert A. Heinlein

 

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo

 

Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever. Peter Hagerty

 

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. Bertrand Russell

 

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love. Baruch Spinoza

 

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Albert Schweitzer

 

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True happiness comes not from a limited concern for one’s own well-being, or that of those one feels close to, but from developing love and compassion for all sentient beings. Dalai Lama

 

I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you’re watching something you do make somebody happy – that’s when happiness happens. Eve Ensler

 

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

 

LIFE HAPPINESS QUOTES

 

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. Mark Twain

 

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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill

 

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. Albert Camus

 

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. John Lennon

 

Happiness is only real when shared. Jon Krakauer

 

You cannot judge what should bring others joy, and others cannot judge what should bring you joy. Alan Cohen

 

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust

 

QUOTES FOR HAPPINESS

 

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton

 

I don’t plan. I’m not a planner. I prefer to live in the moment and be free and to flow and to be happy. Naval Ravikant

 

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. Christian Nestell Bovee

 

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self? Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. Andrew Delbanco

 

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES ABOUT HAPPINESS

 

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. Frederick Keonig

 

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. Doug Larson

 

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. Eric Hoffer

 

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate. Thornton Wilder

 

HAPPINESS LOVE QUOTES

 

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now. Gerald Jampolsky

 

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. Maxim Gorky

 

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. Robert Brault

 

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens. Douglas Jerrold

 

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. Carl Sandburg

 

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. Walter Savage Landor

 

FUNNY HAPPINESS QUOTES

 

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment – a little makes the way of the best happiness. Friedrich Nietzsche

 

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life. Euripides

 

Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want. Alan Cohen

 

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else. Nikos Kazantzakis

 

FUNNY INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES ABOUT LIFE AND HAPPINESS

 

You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. Oprah Winfrey

 

Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery – there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair. Rick Warren

 

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Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent. Billy Graham

 

Happiness is a constant work-in-progress, because solving problems is a constant work-in-progress – the solutions to today’s problems will lay the foundation for tomorrow’s problems, and so on. True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving. Mark Manson

 

WHAT IS HAPPINESS QUOTES

 

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

 

Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy. Roy T. Bennett

 

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than growing with them. Bernard M. Baruch

 

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy. Neil Gaiman

 

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BEST QUOTES ABOUT HAPPINESS

 

You can’t be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes. Lauren Oliver

 

Do what you have always done and you’ll get what you have always got. Sue Knight

 

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung

 

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Lao Tzu

 

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HAPPINESS QUOTES TUMBLR

 

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

 

Perfectionism is the enemy of happiness. Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier. We make mistakes because we are imperfect. Learn from your mistakes, forgive yourself, and keep moving forward. Roy T. Bennett

 

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. Mignon McLaughlin

 

HAPPINESS QUOTES SHORT

 

Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack. Hazelmarie Elliott

 

Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others…By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves. Gordon B. Hinckley

 

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. Jonathan Safran Foer

 

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. Cynthia Nelms

 

FAHRENHEIT 451 QUOTES ABOUT HAPPINESS

 

Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy. Robert Anthony

 

Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce. Vivian Komori

 

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. George Bernard Shaw

 

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. Eugene O’Neill

 

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

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LOVE AND HAPPINESS QUOTES

 

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. Archibald McLeish

 

It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. Chuck Palahniuk

 

Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery. John Suckling

 

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy? Leslie Caron

 

QUOTES ABOUT MONEY AND HAPPINESS / MONEY AND HAPPINESS QUOTES

 

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

 

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Charles Kingsley

 

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Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. Mignon McLaughlin

 

Money doesn’t bring happiness and creativity. Your creativity and happiness brings money. Sam Rosen

 

WHAT IS TRUE HAPPINESS QUOTES

 

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it’s greedy or loving. Dan Millman

 

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. Margaret Young

 

A heart full of joy is better than a hand full of coins. Matshona Dhliwayo

 

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It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. Frank McKinney Hubbard

 

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less. G.K. Chesterton

 

My family didn’t have a lot of money, and I’m grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness. Evangeline Lilly

 

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. Henry Ward Beecher

 

Happiness is the experience of loving life. Being happy is being in love with that momentary experience. And love is looking at someone or even something and seeing the absolute best in him/her or it. Love is happiness with what you see. So love and happiness really are the same thing…just expressed differently. Robert McPhillips

 

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values. Ayn Rand

 

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. Immanuel Kant

 

Happiness is an inside job. William Arthur Ward

 

Happiness is a direction, not a place. Sydney J. Harris

 

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Happiness is a form of courage. Holbrook Jackson

 

FINDING HAPPINESS QUOTES

 

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. Robertson Davies

 

Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it. J. Petit Senn

 

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True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller

 

Happiness is always the serendipitous result of looking for something else. Dr. Idel Dreimer

 

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Margaret Lee Runbeck

 

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Denis Waitley

 

Real happiness is not of temporary enjoyment, but is so interwoven with the future that it blesses for ever. James Lendall Basford

 

We can’t control the world. We can only control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement. David C. Hill

 

HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE QUOTES

 

We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. Thomas Merton

 

Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy. J.M. Reinoso

 

Happiness is usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. Thomas Szasz

 

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. Channing Pollock

 

Happiness is a function of accepting what is. Werner Erhard

 

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. Don Herold

 

HAPPINESS QUOTES FOR HIM

 

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. Denis Waitley

 

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Norman MacEwan

 

Happiness is the natural flower of duty. Phillips Brooks

 

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. Don Marquis

 

Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other. Norman Bradburn

 

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. Thomas Jefferson

 

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QUOTES ABOUT LIFE AND HAPPINESS

 

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. Johnny Carson

 

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world. Orhan Pamuk

 

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. Mildred Barthel

 

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. Aristotle

 

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. Elizabeth Gilbert

 

Happiness is not having what you want. It is appreciating what you have.

 

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration. Pat Conroy

 

BUDDHA QUOTES ON HAPPINESS

 

Don’t put the key to happiness in someone else’s pocket. – Author Unknown

 

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. – Jacques Prévert

 

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

 

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are. – Palmer Sondreal

 

Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy. – Robert Anthony

 

CHOOSE HAPPINESS QUOTES

 

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. – Mark Twain, 1896

 

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. – Edith Wharton

 

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. – E.L. Konigsburg

 

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy. – Cynthia Nelms

 

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. – Robertson Davies

 

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FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT HAPPINESS

 

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. – Norm Papernick

 

All persons carry with them some means of happiness. – James Lendall Basford

 

I don’t think you can feel a sense of entitlement and still be happy. Happiness always comes from feeling that you’ve been blessed. – Robert Brault

 

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. – Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

HAPPINESS SHORT QUOTES

 

What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner. – Colette

 

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. – James Openheim

 

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open. – John Barrymore

 

CUTE QUOTES ABOUT HAPPINESS

 

“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called. – A.A. Milne

 

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost. – H. Jackson Brown

 

It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed. – Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard

 

Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack. – Hazelmarie Elliott

 

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. – Margaret Young

 

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. – St. Augustine

 

I’m perfectly happy. – If only it were true. Not that I suppose anybody is ever perfectly happy, really. But just to be ordinarily contented, to be at peace. – Noël Coward

 

Other people become less confusing once you realize that Happiness is not one-size-fits-all. – Dr. SunWolf

 

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self? – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. – Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts, 1931

 

This is my “depressed stance.” When you’re depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you’ll start to feel better. If you’re going to get any joy out of being depressed, you’ve got to stand like this. – Charles M. Schulz

 

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Pleasure is spread through the earth
In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
– William Wordsworth, 1806

 

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

 

Happiness is a form of courage. – Holbrook Jackson

 

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all. – Jean de La Bruyere

 

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. – Christian Nestell Bovee

 

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. – Frederick Keonig

 

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

 

Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. – Author Unknown

 

Every now and then,
when the world sits just right,
a gentle breath of heaven
fills my soul with delight…
– Hazelmarie Elliott

 

It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. – Berke Breathed

 

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness. – Robert Brault

 

Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory. – Albert Schweitzer

 

Happiness is a well-balanced combination of love, labour, and luck. – Mary Wilson Little, Reveries of a Paragrapher, 1897

 

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. – Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Happiness is a direction, not a place. – Sydney J. Harris

 

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important. – Janet Lane

 

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour. – Author Unknown

 

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. – Lady Blessington

 

The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1. – Author Unknown

 

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness. – Bernard de Fontenelle

 

And she had lain awake through the silent midnight so alive with a tingling, electric joy that she could not sleep. – Kate J. Neely

 

She wielded her desires like a magic pen and scrawled the great wonderword Happiness across her life in letters of flame and gold and diamonds and roses! – Anita Vivanti Chartres

 

Is it not clear, however, that bliss and envy are the numerator and denominator of the fraction called happiness? – Yevgeny Zamyatin

 

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A happy thought is like a seed that sows positivity for all to reap. – Miriam Muhammad

 

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. – Immanuel Kant

 

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. – Henry Ward Beecher

 

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. – Sigmund Freud

 

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction. – Salvador Dali

 

The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony. – V.S. Pritchett

 

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. – Walter Savage Landor

 

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. – George Bernard Shaw

 

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. – Doug Larson

 

Be happy, and a reason will come along. – Robert Brault

 

The Declaration of Independence only holds as a truth of the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. – Author unknown

 

Some pursue happiness, others create it. – Author Unknown

 

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You can only have bliss if you don’t chase it. – Henepola Gunaratana

 

As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. – Andrew Delbanco

 

Happiness is breathlessly chasing you. – Terri Guillemets

 

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. – Eric Hoffer

 

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. – Johann Pestalozzi

 

The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places. – Robert Brault

 

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day. – W. Beran Wolfe

 

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. – Albert Camus

 

If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door. – Robert Brault

 

Happiness is always the serendipitous result of looking for something else. – Dr. Idel Dreimer

 

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. – Bertrand Russell

 

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. – Doug Larson

 

The best climate is found in the state of Contentment. – James Lendall Basford

 

I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success. – Diego Val

 

Often one’s greatest happiness needs less to be pursued than welcomed. – Robert Brault

 

Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don’t go through life creaking. – H.W. Byles

 

What I’m looking for is a blessing that’s not in disguise. – Kitty O’Neill Collins

 

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. – William Shakespeare

 

Isn’t it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do? – Jim Carrey

 

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God. – Jean Ingelow

 

Joy is a flower that blooms when you do. – Author unknown

 

Joy is such stuff as the hinges of Heaven’s doors are made of. – Robert Haven Schauffler

 

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. – Mother Teresa

 

The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid. – J.D. Salinger

 

Joy is not in things; it is in us. – Richard Wagner

 

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. – John Stuart Mill

 

The surest way to find a paradise on earth, the old gardener told us, is to plant your own. – Dr. SunWolf

 

You can’t postpone sorrow, so why would you postpone happiness? – Robert Brault

 

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way. – Thich Nhat Hanh

 

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I dunno, you get to a point in life where you’d settle for life, liberty and the pursuit of can’t complain. – Robert Brault

 

What is joy—a sunbeam between two clouds. – Dorothée de Luzy

 

Real happiness is not of temporary enjoyment, but is so interwoven with the future that it blesses for ever. – James Lendall Basford

 

We can’t control the world. We can only (barely) control our own reactions to it. Happiness is largely a choice, not a right or entitlement. – David C. Hill

 

How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and there will never be a time when it is not now. – Gerald Jampolsky

 

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. – Mignon McLaughlin

 

I have only two kinds of days: happy and hysterically happy. – Allen J. Lefferdink

 

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable. – Joseph Roux

 

Happiness is the feeling you’re feeling when you want to keep feeling it. – Author Unknown

 

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some. – Booth Tarkington

 

Jumping for joy is good exercise. – Author Unknown

 

Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery. – John Suckling

 

Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy. – J.M. Reinoso

 

We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony. – Thomas Merton

 

Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

 

Seeking happiness, I passed many travelers headed in the opposite direction, seeking happiness. – Robert Brault

 

She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway. – Rob Thomas

 

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy. – Gretta Brooker Palmer

 

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much. – Channing Pollock

 

The happy have whole days,
and those they choose.
The unhappy have but hours,
and those they lose.
– Colley Cibber

 

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. – Charles L. Morgan

 

Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. – Iris Murdoch

 

Happiness is… usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. – Thomas Szasz

 

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. – Niccolo Machiavelli

 

The greatest gift we give to someone who loves us is simply to be happy. – Robert Brault

 

You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness. – Author Unknown

 

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. – Ernest Dimnet

 

One joy scatters a hundred griefs. – Chinese Proverb

 

Doing cartwheels in the green grass of happiness and skipping high towards the blue heavenly skies of joy! – Terri Guillemets

 

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. – George Bernard Shaw

 

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. – Eugene O’Neill

 

Even happiness worries sometimes. – Terri Guillemets

 

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is. – Seneca

 

A “right to happiness”… sounds to me as odd as a right to good luck…. A right to happiness doesn’t, for me, make much more sense than a right to be six feet tall, or to have a millionaire for a father, or to get good weather whenever you want to have a picnic. – C.S. Lewis

 

One filled with joy preaches without preaching. – Mother Teresa

 

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Misery is almost always the result of thinking. – Joseph Joubert

 

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate. – Thornton Wilder

 

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

 

Whatever you set aside to seek happiness, remember where you put it. – Robert Brault

 

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment – a little makes the way of the best happiness. – Friedrich Nietzsche

 

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. – William Saroyan

 

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness, without dreaming of it; but likely enough it is gone the moment we say to ourselves, “Here it is!” like the chest of gold that treasure-seekers find. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. – Anton Chekhov

 

Happiness is an inside job. – William Arthur Ward

 

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens. – Douglas Jerrold

 

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. – Don Herold

 

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. – Taisen Deshimaru

 

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It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. – Georges Duhamel

 

If the day and night be such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more immortal – that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. – Henry David Thoreau

 

There is no expert on what happiness is but many on what it might have been. – Robert Brault

 

If a person’s basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring. – Tenzin Gyatso

 

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Eden is that old fashioned House
We dwell in every day
Without suspecting our abode
Until we drive away…
– Emily Dickinson

 

Happiness is a function of accepting what is. – Werner Erhard

 

If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too. – Willis Goth Regier

 

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. – Maxim Gorky

 

Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. – Carl Sandburg

 

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else’s happiness. – Robert Brault

 

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. – John Stuart Mill

 

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though it were his own. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

When you’re really happy, the birds chirp and the sun shines even on cold dark winter nights – and flowers will bloom on a barren land. – Terri Guillemets

 

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. – Joseph Addison

 

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. – Samuel Johnson

 

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. – Freya Stark

 

Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle. – Paulo Coelho

 

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. – Robert Brault

 

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness – otherwise how would you know when you’re happy? – Leslie Caron

 

On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. – William R. Inge

 

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. – Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956

 

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. – Mahatma Gandhi

 

Sometimes we don’t find the thing that will make us happy because we can’t give up the thing that was supposed to. – Robert Brault

 

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. – Denis Waitley

 

Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money. – Mignon McLaughlin

 

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness. – Don Marquis

 

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If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that’s enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine. – Henry Ward Beecher

 

No matter how carefully you plan your life, in the end your happiness comes down to someone who one day just walked into it. – Robert Brault

 

Americans pursue happiness as they would a firefly, and when caught trap it in a jar until it suffocates from lack of freedom. – Terri Guillemets

 

When a man has lost all happiness, he’s not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. – Sophocles

 

One day you just say “To heck with it,” and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness. – Robert Brault

 

May I have, through life, a perfect digestion
And, also, the full price of a meal!
And may I, I pray, have a comfortable bed,
Which is asking, I know, a great deal!
– Gertrude T. Buckingham

 

HAPPINESS QUOTES FOR FRIENDS

 

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness. – Mignon McLaughlin

 

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. – Hosea Ballou

 

I don’t think most people want to be unhappy. It’s just something they’ve gotten good at. – Robert Brault

 

I think Joy sleeps in strange places. We’re always looking for her in shiny, happy, fun times, assuming that Joy prefers her twin brother, Pleasure, when she often hangs out with her somewhat stoic big sister, Strength. Joy is not always easy to recognize, dirt-smudged and sweating, brambles in her hair. I want to believe she sometimes wears a ski mask. – Edmond Manning, King Perry

 

Contentment is the more serene brother of Happiness. – Terri Guillemets

 

HAPPINESS QUOTES FOR GIRLS

 

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. – Charles Caleb Colton

 

Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart. – Terri Guillemets

 

Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. – Benjamin Franklin

 

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. – Epictetus

 

Gather the crumbs of happiness and they will make you a loaf of contentment. – Author Unknown

 

HAPPINESS QUOTES FOR BOYFRIEND

 

How little we know
As we follow its track
How much of the search
Will be circling back.”– Robert Brault 

 

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not. – George Bernard Shaw

 

Happiness is the natural flower of duty. – Phillips Brooks

 

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? – Albert Camus

 

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. – Thomas Jefferson

 

HAPPINESS QUOTES FOR KIDS

 

Happiness is an occasional brief glance into how simple it all can be. – Robert Brault

 

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. – Charles Kingsley

 

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You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you’ll seldom have the chance to be happy by circumstance. – Lavetta Sue Wegman

 

With some whose nerves have a deep covering of fat, happiness is less of a problem that it is an accident of anatomy. – Attributed to Henry S. Haskins

 

Find a place where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. – Joseph Campbell

 

Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time. – Robert Brault

 

Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health, as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom, there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life. – John Ruskin

 

HAPPINESS QUOTES FOR LIFE

 

Happiness is the resultant of the relative strengths of positive and negative feelings rather than an absolute amount of one or the other. – Norman Bradburn

 

Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. – Proverb

 

With penetrating insight, the mystics will tell us that when we have a desire for a certain thing, a certain experience, and we fulfill that desire, the happiness we feel is not something given by that thing or experience; it is due to having no craving for a little while. – Eknath Easwaran

 

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time. – Josh Billings

 

HAPPINESS QUOTES FOR GF

 

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 your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. – Johnny Carson

 

It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time. – Robert Brault

 

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I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. – J.D. Salinger

 

Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it. – François VI de la Rochefoucault

 

HAPPINESS QUOTES FOR INSTAGRAM

 

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. – Marcel Proust

 

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. – Author Unknown

 

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. – Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

 

Don’t shade your eyes from the bright joy of the world. – Terri Guillemets

 

HAPPINESS QUOTES FOR INSTAGRAM BIO

 

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response. – Mildred Barthel

 

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. – Robert Frost

 

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. – Author Unknown

 

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling. – Margaret Lee Runbeck

 

HAPPINESS OF QUOTES

 

Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society. – Charles Gow

 

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it. – Robert Brault

 

All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming – a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

 

HAPPINESS QUOTES OF THE DAY

 

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve. – Robert S. Lynd

 

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So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face. – Robert Brault

 

I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. – Abd-El-Raham

 

HAPPINESS QUOTES OF THE DAY

 

Play happiness as the soundtrack of your life. – Terri Guillemets

 

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. – Ambrose Bierce

 

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