Happiness Quotes

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

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

"Consider the following. We humans are social beings.
We come into the world as the result of others' actions.
We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like
it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we
do not benefit from others' activities. For this reason
it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises
in the context of our relationships with others."
~14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso~

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
~Thich Nhat Hanh~

"There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three
things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace
of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else."
~Peyton Conway March~

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time."
~Edith Wharton~

"That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest."
~Henry David Thoreau~

"Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within.
It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us
which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do,
first for the other fellow and then for ourselves."
~Helen Keller~ Happiness quotes

"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~

"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 been opened for us."
~Helen Keller~

"Many people 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~

"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others
without getting a few drops on yourself."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

"To fill the hour - that is happiness."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~ Happiness quotes

"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and
yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?"
~Charles Schulz~

"What we call the secret of happiness is no more
a secret than our willingness to choose life."
~Leo Buscaglia~

"You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy."
~Eric Hoffer~

"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~ Happiness quotes

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

"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 quotes

"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase,
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it."
~C. P. Snow~

"Happiness is not having what you want.
It is wanting what you have."
~Unknown~

"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do
know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are
those who have sought and found how to serve."
~Albert Schweitzer~ Happiness quotes

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
~Albert Schweitzer~

"Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold
in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no
matter how much we have we will not be happy ... because
we will always want to have something else or something more."
~David Steindl-Rast~

"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. He will not be searching for happiness
as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator."
~W. Beran Wolfe~

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
~14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso~

"When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not
only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it
helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
~14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso~

"The talent for being happy is appreciating and
liking what you have, instead of what you don't have."
~Woody Allen~ Happiness quotes

"Your genius will shine through, and happiness will
fill your life, the instant you discover your higher
purpose and direct all your energies towards it."
~Robin Sharma~

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others,
cannot keep it from themselves."
~James M. Barrie~

"Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued,
is always just beyond your reach;
but which, if you will sit down quietly, may light upon you."
~Nathaniel Hawthorne~

"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~ Happiness quotes

"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness.
Poverty and wealth have both failed."
~Kin Hubbard~

"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 comes when your work and words
are of benefit to yourself and others."
~Buddha~

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy
you must have somebody to divide it with."
~Mark Twain~

"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too."
~Mark Twain~

"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."
~Mark Twain~ Happiness quotes

"Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient."
~Aristotle~

"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 take things as they
come along with patience and equanimity."
~Carl Jung~

"It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis."
~Margaret Bonnano~

"While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate,
it is not possible to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love."
~Bo Bennett, American author~

"People are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
~Abe 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 quotes

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."
~John Barrymore~

"The truest greatness lies in being kind,
the truest wisdom in a happy mind."
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox~

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

"We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same."
~Anne Frank~ Happiness quotes

"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~

"In about the same degree as you are helpful you will be happy."
~Carl Reilland~

"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world;
there is only the comparison of one state to another,
nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best
able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt
what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life."
~Alexandre Dumas~

"Unhappiness is best defined as the difference
between our talents and our expectations."
~Edward de Bono~

"The greatest part of our happiness
depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances."
~Martha Washington~

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

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