Happiness Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• 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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• Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

  Albert Einstein

  Journey, Men, Knowing

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• Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

  Alice Walker

  Success, Being Happy, Perseverance

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• To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.

  Robert Muller

  Love, Beautiful, Forgiveness

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• In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is material; happiness is spiritual. Pleasure is self-involved; happiness is outer- and other-involved.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Being Happy, Spiritual, Happy Life

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• Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Happy, Laughter

  Bertrand Russell (1985). “Contemplation and Action, 1902-14”, p.176, Psychology Press

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• Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

  Groucho Marx

  Love, Funny, Life

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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

  Fighting, Fairy Stories, Dragons

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

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• Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the wrongs of the world around us. But inside ourselves, near the core, if we are happy, we are at peace.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Peace, War, Odds

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• Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

  Red Skelton

  Laughter, Sadness, Laughing

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• Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspiring, Graduation, Courage

  "Dictionary of Thoughts". Book by Tryon Edwards, p. 22, 1908.

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• The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Being Happy, Humor, Habit

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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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• Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

  John Stuart Mill

  Happy, Heart, Confusion

  Autobiography ch. 5 (1873)

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• Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

  Henri Matisse

  Inspirational, Work, Good Day

  Henri Matisse (1992). “Jazz”, George Braziller

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happy, Pain, Two

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

  Charles Kingsley

  Running, Reality, Enthusiasm For Life

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• Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.

  David Hume

  Feelings, Three, Ingredients

  David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary”, p.266

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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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• A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

  John Locke

  Two, Mind, Wish

  John Locke, Ruth Weissbourd Grant, Nathan Tarcov (1996). “Some Thoughts Concerning Education: And, Of the Conduct of the Understanding”, Hackett Publishing

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• Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.

  Bertrand Russell

  Eugenics, People, Indifferent

  Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Impact of Science on Society”, p.117, Routledge

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• 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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• 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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