My Own Happiness Quotes

• The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Thinking, Just Be Happy

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• Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Attitude, Factors

  "Why We Behave". Book by Maurice Cayem, p. 92, 2009.

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.

  Denis Waitley

  Happy, Gratitude, Grateful

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• 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, Happy, Worry

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• If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Attitude, Atmosphere

  "Why We Behave". Book by Maurice Cayem, p. 92, 2009.

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• Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.

  Denis Waitley

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, You Make Me Happy

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• The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

  John Milton

  Happiness, Inspiring, Attitude

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 254 (1667)

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• The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

  Albert Ellis

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Life, Positive

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.272, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

  Alice Walker

  Happiness, Success, Being Happy

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• 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

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• 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

  Happiness, Happy, Hippie

  Attributed to Bertrand Russell, Think, Vol. 27 (p. 32), 1961.

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

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

  Albert Ellis

  Happiness, Responsibility, Destiny

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• Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

  Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

  Happiness, Good Life, Insperational

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• Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Happiness, Happy, Gratitude

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.168

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• 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

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• A day without laughter is a day wasted.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Good Morning, Happiness

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

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

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• The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Happiness, Time, Literature

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.125

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• I want to protect my own happiness. I'm not an angel. I'm just a normal girl.

  Ai Yazawa

  Girl, Angel, Want

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