Happiness Quotes - Page 10

• Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Motivational, Being Happy

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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• There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

  Freya Stark

  Inspirational, Life, Happy

  Freya Stark (2011). “The Lycian Shore”, p.27, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• Remember that happiness is a way of travel, it's not a destination.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  Happy, Faith, Mother

  Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

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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

  Happy, Being Happy, Happy Life

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

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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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• Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Literature, Mystery, Should

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

  George Eliot

  Women, Heart, Feet

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• Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.

  Julien Green

  Dark, Drawing, Yesterday

  Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins

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• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

  Victor Hugo

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

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Life, Positive, Happy

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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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• 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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• Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

  Hermann Hesse

  Being Happy, You Make Me Happy, Inner Peace

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• The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

  Mark Twain

  Bullying, Laughter, Business

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.35, St. Martin's Press

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• Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Happy, Littles, Excitement

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.102, Pushkin Press

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• Happiness depends upon ourselves.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Adventure, Positivity

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

  Mark Twain

  Happy, People, Joy

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.103, Book Tree

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• When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.

  Nelson Mandela

  Hate, People, Prison

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• All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

  Dennis Prager

  Ungrateful People, Adversity, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from Sep 30, 2016

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• What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Being Happy

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Happy, Gratitude, Cheer

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.168

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• It makes no difference where you go, there you are. And it makes no difference what you have, there’s always more to want. Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.

  Zig Ziglar

  Differences, Want, Who You Are

  Zig Ziglar (1997). “Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance”, p.177, Thomas Nelson

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