Happiness Quotes - Page 40

• "I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

  Samuel Johnson

  Lonely, Loneliness, Clouds

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.458

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• We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

  Alice Walker

  Success, Perseverance, Fear

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Fiction”, p.804, Hachette UK

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• The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.

  William James

  Cheerful, Path, Speak

  "Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

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• It's time for you to move, realizing that the thing you are seeking is also seeking you.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Success, Perseverance, Fear

  Iyanla Vanzant (2012). “Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour”, Simon and Schuster

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• A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Character, Guarantees, Carefree

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• Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Real, Men

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• All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "The 8 Best Sound Bites Of Graduation Advice" by Therese Borchard, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2009.

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• Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power. The thing itself cannot touch you. But if you allow your fear to seep into your mind and overtake your thoughts, it will rob you of your life.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspiring, Success, Perseverance

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• Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.

  Thomas Paine

  America, Liberty, Libertarian

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.15

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• Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• ‎Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.

  Audre Lorde

  Love, Inspiring, Success

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.92, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspiring, Success, Perseverance

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• The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Success, Perseverance, Fear

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• The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Independent, Men

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2280, Delphi Classics

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• The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beauty, Laughter, Heart

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.573, Wordsworth Editions

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  That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 34 (1798)

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• I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Fighting, Thinking

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

  William Butler Yeats

  Laughter, Joy, Corresponding

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• The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Time, Congratulations, Failure

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.10, BookBaby

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• The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Heart, Compassion, Soul

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• Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Expansion, Fulfillment In Life, Purpose

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• Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

  James Young

  Smile, Song, Laughter

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• If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

  Zig Ziglar

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  "The Power of Respect : Benefit from the Most Forgotten Element of Success" by Deborah Norville, (p. 65), 2009.

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• Remember that failure is an event, not a person.

  Zig Ziglar

  Love, Motivational, Family

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 02, 2014

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