Great Happiness Quotes - Page 7

• Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.

  Doug Larson

  Happiness, Being Happy, Stars

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• To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Love, Friendship Over, Happiness Love

  "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

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• To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Happiness, Art, Laughter

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• My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

  Horatio Nelson

  Country, Kings, Offending

  Horatio Nelson's letter to his mistress Lady Hamilton, 1800.

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• The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Happiness, Real Friends

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.9, Heron Dance Press

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• To fill the hour──that is happiness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Time Management, Hours

  'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'Experience'

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• Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

  Og Mandino

  Smile, Being Happy, Giving

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• They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Butterfly, Winter

  Edith Wharton (2005). “Ethan Frome - Literary Touchstone”, p.85, Prestwick House Inc

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• Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

  Dale Carnegie

  Happiness, Leadership, Jobs

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• When you love life, life will love you back.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Positive, Attitude, Short Life

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• To get joy, we must give it and to keep joy, we must scatter it.

  John Templeton

  Giving, Joy, Spiritual Happiness

  John Templeton (1998). “The Humble Approach: Scientists Discover God”, p.122, Templeton Foundation Press

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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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• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

  F. H. Bradley

  Happiness, Secret, Admiration

  Aphorisms (1930) no. 33

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• Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Happiness, Fighting, Fairy Stories

  Alexandre Dumas (2003). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.18, Bantam Classics

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• What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

  Sigmund Freud

  Happiness, Happy, Joy

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Virtue

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• The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

  Madame de Stael

  Motivational, Happiness, Feelings

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• The way to be happy is to make others so.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Way

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1874). “The Gods, and Other Lectures”, p.86

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• Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Happiness, Success, 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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• Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

  Ayn Rand

  Happiness, Being Happy, Time

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.213, Penguin

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• The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

  Carl Sandburg

  Happiness, Being Happy, Inner Peace

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• A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Happy, Determination

  George Santayana (1945). “The Middle Span”

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• The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

  John Milton

  Happiness, Inspiring, Attitude

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 254 (1667)

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• What is wanted for the nonce is, that folks should be as agreeable as possible in conversation and demeanor; so that good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in societ.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Happiness, Attitude, Educational

  "Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval and other stories".

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