Happiness Quotes - Page 10

• The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

  Eric Hoffer

  Happy, Laughter, Joy

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.112, Wordsworth Editions

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

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Happy, Integrity

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

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

  Malcolm Forbes

  Art, Laughter, Long

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• Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Positive Thinking, Stay Positive, Famous Basketball

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1905). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realize that each thought creates according to its own nature. Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Inspirational, Change, Happy

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• We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Happy, Wish, Being Happy

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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, Happy, Appreciation

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• Happiness is an inside job.

  William Arthur Ward

  Happy, Jobs, Yoga

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• Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspirational, Motivational, Self Esteem

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.272, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

  Anthony de Mello

  Inspirational, Happy, Attitude

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.4, Image

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• We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, Happy

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• Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.

  Brian Weiss

  Hurt, Positive Thinking, People

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• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Happy, Quality

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker, Cebes (of Thebes.) (1726). “The Emperor Marcus Antoninus: His Conversation with Himself. Together with the Preliminary Discourse of the Learned Gataker”, p.155

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• Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Depression, Wisdom

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1681, Library of Alexandria

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• Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

  Aldous Huxley

  Conscious, Pursuit, Activity

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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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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• I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• No man is happy who does not think himself so.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Success, Happy

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 584, 1856.

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• Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Men, Pieces

  Benjamin Franklin (1840). “The works of Benjamin Franklin: with notes and a life of the author by J. Sparks”, p.280

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• Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

  George Santayana

  Success, Education, Knowledge

  George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.221, Library of Alexandria

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• There's a huge difference between achieving to be happy and happily achieving.

  Tony Robbins

  Happy, Encouragement, Differences

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Jan 08, 2015

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• Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Life, People, Inner Peace

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• There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

  Henry Ford

  Work, Inspiration, Joy

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