Being Happy Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Happy, God

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.182, Chartwell

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• Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.

  Ralph Marston

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.

  Dorothy Parker

  Friendship, Happy, Writing

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• Success is how you collect your minutes. You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph? It doesn't equate... Life is made of small pleasures. Good eye contact over the breakfast table with your wife. A moment of touching a friend. Happiness is made of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. If you don't have all those zillions of tiny successes, the big ones don't mean anything.

  Norman Lear

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• Happiness is a myth we seek,
  If manifested surely irks;
  Like river speeding to the plain,
  On its arrival slows and murks.
  For man is happy only in
  His aspiration to the heights;
  When he attains his goal, he cools
  And longs for other distant flights.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you can't change.

  Drake

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

  Pat Conroy

  Happiness, Happy, Beautiful

  Pat Conroy (2016). “The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, and The Prince of Tides: Three Classic Novels in One Collection”, p.597, Open Road Media

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• You may think that if someone else doesn't change, you can never be happy. But if you change, you can be happy no matter what.

  Joyce Meyer

  Thinking, May, Matter

  Twitter post from Jan 25, 2012

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• It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.

  Lucille Ball

  Happiness, Happy, Spring

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• Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Happiness, Happy, Joy

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.87

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• There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Inspirational, Happiness, Clever

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• Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.

  Dan Millman

  Happiness, Success, Money

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• Beingness, doingness and havingness are like a triangle where each side supports the others. They are not in conflict with each other. They all exist simultaneously. Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: They try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

  Shakti Gawain

  Happy, Pursuit Of Happiness, Careers

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• 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 M. Schulz

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• Keeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity!

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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• Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Mary Lou Retton (2000). “Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness: 7 Ways to a More Peaceful, More Prosperous, More Satisfying Life”, Broadway

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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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• When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Happy, Mind, Contentment

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2003). “The New Meditation Handbook: Meditations to Make Our Life Happy and Meaningful”, p.12, Tharpa Publications UK

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• Dear young people, Jesus gives us life, life in abundance. If we are close to him we will have joy in our hearts and a smile on our face.

  Pope Francis

  Smile, Happy, Jesus

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.84, SPCK

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• The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Happiness, Happy, Inner Peace

  Deepak Chopra (1985). “Creating health: the psychophysiological connection”

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• Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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