Attaining Happiness Quotes

If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.

Connie Sellecca

Happiness, Success, Happy

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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

Happiness, Happy, Success

Epictetus (2016). “The Philosophy of Epictetus: Golden Sayings and Fragments”, p.87, Courier Dover Publications

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4990, Delphi Classics

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I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness.

Zhuangzi

World, Way, Obsessed

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

"Humor, Play, & Laughter : Stress-proofing Life with Your Kids" by Joseph A. Michelli, (p. 88), 1998.

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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman

Positive, Birthday, Happiness

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius

Life, Happiness, Happy

Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1726). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself. Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker”, p.155

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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

Positive, Happiness, Happy

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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Aeschylus

Happiness, Positivity, Effort

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Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.

Tal Ben-Shahar

Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

Tal Ben-Shahar (2002). “The Question of Happiness: On Finding Meaning, Pleasure, and the Ultimate Currency”, p.15, iUniverse

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

Democritus

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Jim Rohn

Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 02, 2015

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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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Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.

Herman Cain

Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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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

Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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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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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Maria Mitchell

Happiness, Happy, Beauty

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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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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Carl Sandburg

Happiness, Being Happy, Inner Peace

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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Plutarch

Happiness, Happy, Speak Less

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Linus Pauling

Life, Happiness, Wise

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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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The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Charles Morgan

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Love, Happiness, Marriage

Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12

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