Happiness Quotes

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Happiness Quotes

Happiness Quotes

"Happiness doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfection." ~ unknown


"Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin." ~ John Lubbock


"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


"Most people are as happy as they've decided to be." ~ Abraham Lincoln


"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


"Happiness depends upon ourselves." ~ Aristotle


"Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors." ~ Dalai Lama


"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul." ~ Democritus


"Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it eludes you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and sits softly on your shoulder." ~ Henry David Thoreau


"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work must no longer be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits." ~ Theodore Roosevelt


"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." ~ John Lennon


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"If we have no inner peace, we deceive ourselves into thinking that comfort and prosperity will bring happiness." ~ Dalai Lama


"The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it." ~ Eckhart Tolle


"Happy people attract other happy people. Show the world your smile, and the world will smile back." ~ Denise Austin


"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." ~ Benjamin Franklin


"It is your choice to be happy. Make up your mind to enjoy this day, to have a blessed, prosperous, victorious year. You may have some setbacks and your circumstances may change, but don't let that change your mind. Keep it set to happiness." ~ Joel Osteen


"Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have." ~ unknown


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


"The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us." ~ Saint Augustine


"Happiness is not something that you pursue; it is something that you allow. Happiness is just being." ~ Chade-Meng Tan


"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action." ~ Benjamin Disraeli


"Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing." ~ Napoleon Hill


"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be." ~ Abraham Lincoln


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


"If you want to be happy, be." ~ Leo Tolstoy


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"Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health." - Julia Child


"Remember this that very little is needed to make a happy life." ~ Marcus Aurelius


"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy." ~ Rumi


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


"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." ~ unknown


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


"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe." ~ Thomas Paine


"Until you take ownership for your life, you will always be chasing happiness." ~ Sean Stephenson


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


"Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable." ~ Leo Rosten


"Happiness is inward and not outward; and so it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are." ~ Henry Van Dyke


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


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