Found Happiness Quotes - Page 2

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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Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

Andy Rooney

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Albert Schweitzer

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Dale Carnegie

Life, Motivational, Positive

Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

William Feather

Life, Happiness, Happy

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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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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

John Dewey

Happiness, Work, Opportunity

John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education”, p.311, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Nhat Hanh

Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

"3 Things You Can Do to Improve Your Mood in 2 Minutes" by Daniela Tempesta, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2013.

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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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Whoever is happy will make others happy.

Anne Frank

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

Anne Frank (1952). “The diary of a young girl”

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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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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Agnes Repplier

Happiness, Happy, Women

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I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Groucho Marx

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Guillaume Apollinaire

Life, Positive, Happiness

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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Dalai Lama

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

"Partying for the Planet and Dancing With God (at Burning Man)" by Leah Lamb, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2012.

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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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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.153, Matthew Gordon

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The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

Socrates

Motivational, Happiness, Freedom

"Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives". Book by Dan Millman, p. 162, 2006.

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A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.

Honore de Balzac

Husband, Wife, Bedroom

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If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

David W. Wolfe

Happiness, Happy, Writing

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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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