Happiness Quotes - Page 6

• There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

  Maria Mitchell

  Happy, Beauty, Beautiful

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• A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Happy, Laughter

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2759, Delphi Classics

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• I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

  John Stuart Mill

  Inspirational, Being Happy, Inner Peace

  "The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health". "The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health", Vol. LXXXV, p. 170, September, 1887.

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• The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Happy, Inner Peace, Purpose

  Deepak Chopra (1985). “Creating health: the psychophysiological connection”

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• We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Positive, Positivity

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 12, 2011

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  Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

  Aeschylus

  Positivity, Effort, Choices

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• Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

  Leo Rosten

  Happy, Heart, Brain

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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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• A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Being Happy, Encouragement

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.153, Matthew Gordon

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• It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspirational, Happy, Wisdom

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Freedom, Meditation, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2001). “Freedom, Love, and Action”, p.60, Shambhala Publications

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

  Anne Frank

  God, Lonely, Nature

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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  The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Government, Guarantees, Politics

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• Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Being Happy, Attitude

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• If my heart can become pure and simple, like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.

  Kitaro Nishida

  Happy, Children, Philosophy

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• Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Positive, Happy

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  The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Happy, Beauty, Home

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.2238, Delphi Classics

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• He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Being Happy, Peace, Kings

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• Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.

  Tina Turner

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

  Albert Ellis

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• The goal of all goals is happiness, and our emotions are like road signs on that journey toward the goal of happiness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Journey, Goal, Emotion

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• The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

  James Oppenheim

  Inspirational, Positive, Happy

  James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”

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• Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Motivational, Happy

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• Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it. .

  John Templeton

  Happy, Spiritual, Suicidal

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