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Quotes about Happiness
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.
~ Marcus A. Antoninus
Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.
~ Jim Rohn
Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.
~ Author unknown
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
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
~ Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
~ Roger L'Estrange
Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
~ Dale Carnegie
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
~ Sydney Smith
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.
~ Kin Hubbard
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
~ Author unknown
Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses.
~ Dale Carnegie
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
~ Eric Hoffer
Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, 'making it', or success.
~ Dr. Joyce Brothers
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
~ Burton Hills
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
~ Buddha
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll
May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.
~ Richard L. Evans
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you have nothing else to do, look about you and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, though it is more likely that it will make you happy.
~ George Matthew Adams
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
~ Joseph Addison
Happiness is more a state of health than of wealth.
~ Frank Tyger
Happiness is not in our circumstances but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are.
~ John B. Sheerin
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 does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
~ Aristotle
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
~ Democritus
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
~ George Matthew Allen
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
~ Aldous Huxley
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
~ David Burns
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of mind.
~ Alice Meynell
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men spend their lives in anticipations, - in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
~ Epictetus
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realising that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
~ Arnold Bennett
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
~ Epictetus
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
~ John Stuart Mills
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
~ Robert F. Kennedy
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
~ William Ellery Channing
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and it not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
~ Douglas Jerrold
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
~ J. Petit Senn
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
~ Albert Camus
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
~ Aristotle
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
~ George Santayana
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
~ Publilius Syrus
Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all travelling to one destination; - happiness; but few are going by the same road.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Happiness comes when your words are of benefit to yourself and others.
~ Buddha
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.
~ Albert Camus
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
There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.
~ Ramona L. Anderson
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
~ Gandhi
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
~ Leo Buscaglia
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