Happiness Quotes - Page 25

• Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Positive, Happy

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.279, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Positive, Happy, Depression

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• In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  John Ruskin (1906). “Pre-Raphaelitism”, p.7, Рипол Классик

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• We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Happy

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• The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Optimistic, Optimism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3101, Delphi Classics

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• It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

  Immanuel Kant

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

  Immanuel Kant (1963). “Lectures on ethics”

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• The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Laughter, Brave Person, Bravery

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• The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Bad Day, Cutting, Risk

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.86, W. W. Norton & Company

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• All I can say about life is, 'Oh God, enjoy it!'

  Bob Newhart

  Life Is, Enjoy, I Can

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

  Orson Scott Card

  Pain, Worthy, Without Pain

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus”, p.394, Macmillan

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• You can only have bliss if you don't chase it.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Bliss, Ifs

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• What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.

  Aldous Huxley

  Struggle, Passion, Fighting

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

  Olympia Brown

  Sacrifice, Color, Speak

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• The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

  Edward de Bono

  Positive Attitude, Differences, Expectations

  In Observer 12 June 1977

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• Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.

  Robert Breault

  Success, Hope, Motivation

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• Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

  Pope Francis

  Relationship, Happy, Marriage

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Ambition

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.2992, Delphi Classics

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• All alternatives are open. Choose to be blissful. And then there are people who can be blissful even when they are imprisoned, and there are people who remain miserable even when they are living in marble palaces. It all depends on you.

  Rajneesh

  People, Alternatives, Palaces

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• No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.

  C. S. Lewis

  Strong, Men, Temptation

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• No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Mistake, Men, Overcoming Evil

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women & a Vindication of the Rights of Men”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We begin from the recognition that all beings cherish happiness and do not want suffering. It then becomes both morally wrong and pragmatically unwise to pursue only one's own happiness oblivious to the feelings and aspirations of all others who surround us as members of the same human family. The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, You Make Me Happy, Thinking

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• What is the worth of anything,
  But for the happiness 'twill bring?

  Richard Owen Cambridge

  Inner Peace, What Is Happiness, Great Happiness

  Richard Owen Cambridge, George Owen Cambridge (1803). “The Works of Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq: Including Several Pieces Never Before Published”, p.10

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• The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Art, Sick, Advice

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