Art Of Happiness Quotes - Page 3

• The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

  C.P. Snow

  Love, Happiness, Happy

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• The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• 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

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.10, Modern Library

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  Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Happy, Buddhist

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• The purpose of our life needs to be positive. We weren't born with the purpose of causing trouble, harming others. For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities - warmth, kindness, compassion. Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful - happier.

  Dalai Lama

  Meaningful, Kindness, Thinking

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.59, Penguin

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• Our attitude towards suffering becomes very important because it can affect how we cope with suffering when it arises.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Suffering, Important

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.105, Penguin

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• Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

  John Lubbock

  Happiness, Life And Love, Violin

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• Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Events, Determined

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.33, Penguin

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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 happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  The Friend (1828)

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• Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

  Oscar Levant

  Inspirational, Happiness, Memories

  Time, August 28, 1972.

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• I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Believe, You Make Me Happy

  "The Art of Happiness". Book by the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1998.

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• So the first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Negative, Firsts

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.43, Penguin

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• If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Happy, Women

  "Ethan Frome".

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• There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Buddhist, Inspiration

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  "Looking Forward".

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• Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

  Edward de Bono

  Happiness, Positive Attitude, Differences

  In Observer 12 June 1977

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• Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

  Hermann Hesse

  Happiness, Being Happy, You Make Me Happy

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  Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

  George Orwell

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  George Orwell (1946). “Critical Essays”

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• People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Happiness, Happy, Mean

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• Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Happiness, Happy, Wise

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• People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Happy, Summer

  'The Three Sisters' (1901) act 2

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• Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Happiness, Literature, Mystery

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

  Iris Murdoch

  Happiness, Happy, Gratitude

  "The Nice And The Good".

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