Happiness Quotes - Page 10

• Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.

  James F. Byrnes

  Life, Death, Fear

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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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• I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Wine, Simple, Glasses

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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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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• The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Don't Worry Be Happy

  Meher Baba

  Being Happy, Morning, Christian Inspirational

  Meher Baba (1977). “Not we but one”

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• Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Happy, Freedom

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.10, Modern Library

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• Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

  Norman Lear

  Life, Gratitude, Mean

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• Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

  Mark Twain

  Contrast, Pleasant

  Mark Twain (2003). “Tales of Wonder”, p.32, U of Nebraska Press

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• The standard of success in life isn't the things. It isn't the money or the stuff. It is absolutely the amount of joy that you feel.

  Esther Hicks

  Joy, Stuff, Success In Life

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

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Real, Night

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 04, 2016

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• The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Passion, Men, Intellectual

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• Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Being Happy

  Emma ch. 30 (1816)

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• Happiness is anyone and anything that's loved by you.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Wedding

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• Happiness was born a twin.

  Lord Byron

  Inspirational, Twins, Born

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

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• We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

  Friedrich Koenig

  Love, Life, Happy

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• Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.

  Paulo Coelho

  Happy, Miracle, World

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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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• Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Being Happy

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• Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

  Maxim Gorky

  Inspirational, Success, Happy

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• The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happy, Pain, Two

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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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• If you pursue happiness you never find it.

  C.P. Snow

  Inner Peace, Pursue, Ifs

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