Found Happiness Quotes

• The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

  James Oppenheim

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”

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• The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

  Ashley Montagu

  Happiness, Happy, Being Happy

  Ashley Montagu (1967). “The American Way of Life”

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• We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

  Friedrich Koenig

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Happiness, Happy, Gratitude

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• Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspiring, Happiness, Happy

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• When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.

  Francoise Bertaut de Motteville

  Happiness, Peace, Work

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• Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

  Gerard Way

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Happiness, Depression

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• We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Happiness, Wine, Emotional

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.52

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• When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Happiness, Country

  Leo Tolstoy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy (Illustrated)”, p.390, Delphi Classics

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• To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.

  Mary, Queen of Scots

  Happiness, Being Happy, You Make Me Happy

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• They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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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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• Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop

  Gertrude Stein

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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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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• A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  "Albert Einstein". Book by Dana Meachen Rau (p. 19), 2003.

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• I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

  Groucho Marx

  Happiness, Happy, Positive Thinking

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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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• 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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• Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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