Great Happiness Quotes - Page 3

• I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

  "The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health". "The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health", Vol. LXXXV, p. 170, September, 1887.

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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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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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  Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

  Aeschylus

  Happiness, Positivity, Effort

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• True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

  Joseph Addison

  Happiness, Self, Talking

  Joseph Addison (1721). “Remarks on several parts of Italy , &c in the years 1701, 1702, 1703. The Tatler. By Isaac Bickerstaffe, esq. The Spectator, no.1-89”, p.442

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• What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Life, Happiness, Make Others Happy

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• Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

  Sigmund Freud

  Happiness, Being Happy, Wisdom

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.17, Courier Dover Publications

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• The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

  William Saroyan

  Happiness, Gratitude, Cheer

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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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• All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

  Charles Kingsley

  Happiness, Running, Reality

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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 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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• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

  Mark Twain

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.116, Chartwell

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• Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

  Jacques Prevert

  Positive, Happiness, Happy

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• The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Best Friend, Happiness

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.29, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

  Og Mandino

  Happiness, Smile, Happy

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• Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

  George A. Sheehan

  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

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• If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

  Epicurus

  Happiness, Being Happy, Money

  Epicurus (2016). “Principal Doctrines”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.101, Vintage

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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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• Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

  William Feather

  Happiness, Struggle, Inner Peace

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• You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Youthful Writings". Book by Albert Camus, October 1932.

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• All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

  Lord Byron

  Happiness, Meaningful, Angel

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.245, Routledge

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• We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

  Anne Frank

  Happiness, Happy, Soulmate

  1944 Diary entry, 6 Jul.

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• Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Happiness, Yoga

  Title of poem (1942)

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