202 of the Best Happiness Quotes to Show You what Others think about Happiness
We’ve collected some of the best happiness quotes out of the thousands we have found. They cover all sorts of situations where happiness could be an issue. We hope all of us can find happiness in our life. See what others think about being happy in these quotes we have collected.
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
— Aristotle
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7 Steps to Happiness
by The Oxford Club
Published on Youtube on May 21, 2020
In part 7 of Survive & Thrive, Nathan Hurd, Chief Growth Officer of the Oxford Club, gives you 7 steps to achieving the state of happiness.
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What about the definition of happiness? Here’s what the Merriam-Webster Dictionary says:
happiness noun
hap·pi·ness | \ ˈha-pē-nəs
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Definition of happiness1a : a state of well-being and contentment : joy
b : a pleasurable or satisfying experience I wish you every happiness in life. I had the happiness of seeing you— W. S. Gilbert
2 : felicity, aptness a striking happiness of expression
3 obsolete : good fortune : prosperity all happiness bechance to thee— William Shakespeare
“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
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“Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.”
— Benjamin Franklin
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Almost 200 Happiness Quotes to Give You a Hint What Others Think About Happiness
1. “Happiness is the default state. It’s what’s there when you remove the sense that something is missing in life.”
— Naval Ravikant
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2. “Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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3. “Real happiness is not of temporary enjoyment, but is so interwoven with the future that it blesses for ever.”
— James Lendall Basford
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4. “A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.”
– Bernard de Fontenelle
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5.“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
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6. “Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.”
— Hosea Ballou
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7. “All happiness depends on courage and work.”
– Honoré de Balzac
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8. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
— Dalai Lama
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9. “Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.”
– Johnny Carson
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10. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”
— James Oppenheim
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11. “Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.”
— Mildred Barthel
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12. “Happiness is a state of activity.”
— Aristotle
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13. “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
— Franklin Roosevelt
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14. “There is no way to happiness — happiness is the way.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
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15. “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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16. “The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.”
— Joseph Roux
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17. “Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.”
— Hazelmarie Elliott
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18. “Happiness is a form of courage.”
— Holbrook Jackson
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19. “Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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20. “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
— Gabriel García Márquez
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21. “Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.”
— Douglas Jerrold
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22. “Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.”
— Don Marquis
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23. “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
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24. “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
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25. “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
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26. “Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.”
— Benjamin Franklin
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27. “To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
— Bertrand Russell
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28. “The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.”
— William Saroyan
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29. “Happiness is a direction, not a place.”
— Sydney J. Harris
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30. “Happiness is a place between too much and too little.”
— Finnish proverb
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31. “Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.”
— Alain De Botton
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32. “The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.”
— William Morris
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33. “Happiness is always the serendipitous result of looking for something else.”
— Dr. Idel Dreimer
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34 “The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.”
— Eric Hoffer
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35. “True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
— Helen Keller
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36. “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
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37. “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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38. “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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39. “There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.”
— Freya Stark
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40. “People should find happiness in the little things, like family.”
— Amanda Bynes
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41. “Happiness is only real when shared.”
— Jon Krakauer
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42. “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
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43. “Happiness is an inside job.”
— William Arthur Ward
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44. “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
— Mark Twain
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45. “Happiness is only real when shared.”
— Jon Krakauer
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46. “Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.”
— Mignon McLaughlin
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47. “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
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48. “Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
— Robert Frost
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49. “The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony.”
— V.S. Pritchett
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50. “Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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51. “The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
— Victor Hugo
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52. “Happiness is a function of accepting what is.”
— Werner Erhard
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53. “Sometimes life knocks you on your ass… get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.”
— Steve Maraboli
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54. “Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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55. “Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.”
— E.L. Konigsburg
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56. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
— Robert A. Heinlein
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57. “Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.”
— Norm Papernick
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58. “Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
— Orhan Pamuk
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59. “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
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60. “No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.”
— Barbara DeAngelis
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61. “Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.”
— Pat Conroy
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62. “Happiness is the natural flower of duty.”
— Phillips Brooks
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63. “It’s the moments that I stopped just to be, rather than do, that have given me true happiness.”
— Sir Richard Branson
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64. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
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65. “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
— George Burns
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66. “There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.”
— Lady Blessington
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67. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
— Marcus Aurelius
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68. “Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
— Margaret Lee Runbeck
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69. “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
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70. “Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy.”
— J.M. Reinoso
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71. “In my life I’ve learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we’re all searching for. I haven’t come across anyone who didn’t become a better person through love.”
— Marla Gibbs
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72. “Happiness is a well-balanced combination of love, labour, and luck.”
— Mary Wilson Little
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73. “Ups and downs. Victories and defeats. Sadness and happiness. That’s the best kind of life.”
— Maxime Lagacé
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74. Happiness is the best makeup.
— Drew Barrymore
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75. “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 Bronte
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76. “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, 14th Dalai Lama
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77. “Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.”
— John Stuart Mill
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78. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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79. “Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.”
— Johnny Carson
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80. “All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”
— Baruch Spinoza
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81. “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
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82. “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.”
— W.P. Kinsella
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83. “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
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84. “Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
— Helen Keller
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85. “To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.”
— Buddha
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86. “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
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87. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
— Unknown
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88. “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
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89. “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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90. “I think the key to life is just being a happy person, and happiness will bring you success.”
— Diego Val
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91. “Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.”
— St. Augustine
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92. “The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
— Author unknown, commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin
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93. “We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”
— George Bernard Shaw
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94. “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
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95. “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
— Charles Spurgeon
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96. “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
— Gabriel García Márquez
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97. “Happiness is a warm puppy.”
— Charles M. Schulz
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98. “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
— Mark Twain
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99. “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, ‘Diary’
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100. “The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.”
— Epictetus
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101. Independence is happiness.
— Susan B. Anthony
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102. “Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.”
— Walt Disney
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103. “Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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104. “A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.”
— Albert Einstein
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105. “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”
— Jim Rohn
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106. “If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.”
— Mother Teresa
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107. “Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.”
— Carrie Underwood
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108. “Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.”
— Benjamin Franklin
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109. “Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.”
— Roy T. Bennett
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110. “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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111. Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like.
— Unknown
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112. “The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy by yourself and for yourself.”
— Ellen DeGeneres
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113. “Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.”
— Muhammad Ali
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114. “Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.”
— Dalai Lama
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115. “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
— Aristotle
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116. Happiness comes in waves. It’ll find you again.
— Unknown
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117. “Happiness is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty without happiness.”
— Christian Dior
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118. The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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119. 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
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120. “Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.”
— Gretta Brooker Palmer
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121. Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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122. 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
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123. Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.
— Dale Carnegie
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124. 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 which has opened for us.
— Helen Keller
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125. “My family didn’t have a lot of money, and I’m grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.”
— Evangeline Lilly
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126. The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.
— Thucydides
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127. Happiness comes from peace. Peace comes from indifference.
— Naval Ravikant
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128. Happiness is not doing fun things. Happiness is doing meaningful things.
— Maxime Lagacé
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129. One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
— Rita Mae Brown
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130. “Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends.”
— Divyanka Tripathi
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131. Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.
— Steve Maraboli
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132. That’s your unlimited desires that are clouding your peace, your happiness.
— Naval Ravikant
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133. Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.
— Frank Tyger
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134. True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.
— Joseph Addison
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135. “Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
— Guillaume Apollinaire
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136. The constant happiness is curiosity.
— Alice Munro
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137. 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
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138. Happiness is a state where nothing is missing.
— Naval Ravikant
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139. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
— Ernest Hemingway
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140. “Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”
— Immanuel Kant
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141. Finding happiness is easy: stop being busy.
— Maxime Lagacé
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142. Being happy is not the only happiness.
— Alice Walker
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143. Happiness is inversely correlated with desire.
— Unknown
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144. Happiness does not lead to gratitude. Gratitude leads to happiness.
— David Steindl-Rast
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145. “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
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146. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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147. Happiness is acceptance.
— Unknown
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148. It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life.
— Henrik Ibsen
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149. 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
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150. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”
— James Oppenheim
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151. Happiness? That’s nothing more than health and a poor memory.
— Albert Schweitzer
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152. Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour.
— Walt Whitman
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153. 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
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154. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
— Dale Carnegie
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155. “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
— Ayn Rand
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156. Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
— C.S. Lewis
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157. To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
— Gustave Flaubert
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158. You can’t buy happiness but you can buy ice cream. And that’s kind of the same thing.
— Unknown
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159. Happiness: A butterfly, which when pursued, seems always just beyond your grasp; but if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
— Daily Crescent
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160. “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
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161. “So love and happiness really are the same thing…just expressed differently.”
— Robert McPhillips
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162. Seeking happiness is a straight way to misery.
— English proverb
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163. If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us.
— Richard Carlson
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164. Happiness is a choice and a skill and you can dedicate yourself to learning that skill and making that choice.
— Naval Ravikant
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165. “Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.”
— Iris Murdoch
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166. One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows.
— Chinese proverb
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167. There is great happiness in not wanting, in not being something, in not going somewhere.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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168. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
— Mother Teresa
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169. It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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170. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
— Carl Sandburg
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172. 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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173. Usefulness is happiness, and… all other things are but incidental.
— Lydia Maria Child
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174. But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
— Albert Camus
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175. “Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
— Joseph Addison
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176. “The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.”
— Doug Larson
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177. 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
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178. Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
— Bertrand Russell
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179. 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
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180. “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
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Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.
— Roy T. Bennett
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182. The notion of happiness doesn’t exist in nature, it only exists in your mind.
— Maxime Lagacé
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183. 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
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184. Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
— Charles Dickens
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185. “The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.”
— Carrie Jones
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186. “There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
— George Sand
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187. 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
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188. “Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it.”
— J. Petit Senn
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189. 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
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190. It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.
— Frank McKinney Hubbard
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191. Money doesn’t bring happiness and creativity. Your creativity and happiness brings money.
— Sam Rosen
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192. Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.
— Channing Pollock
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193. Happiness is usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
— Thomas Szasz
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194. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.
— Ayn Rand
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195. “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
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“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
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197. 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
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198. “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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199. “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
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200. Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
— Don Herold
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201. A smile is happiness you’ll find right under your nose.
— Tom Wilson
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202. True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents.
— John W. Gardner
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