Happiness Quotes - Page 6

• Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Happy, May

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• Learn to be happy in any and all circumstances, whether you're experiencing pleasure or pain, whether there's loss or gain, whether the world loves you or hates you. Learn to be happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Hate, Love You

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• If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Happy, Military, Successful

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• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Sad, Happy

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• Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Happy, Kissing, Enjoy Life

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  Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

  Democritus

  Inspirational, Happy, Uplifting

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• Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Love, Life, Being Happy

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• Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Life, Regret

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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 often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

  John Barrymore

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

  Jane Porter

  Not Perfect

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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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• 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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• Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Happy, Wise, Silly

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• Laughter is the language of the soul.

  Pablo Neruda

  Laughter, Laughing, Soul

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  Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I've got nothing to do today but smile.

  Paul Simon

  Funny, Life, Smile

  Song: The Only Living Boy In New York

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• A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Happy, Encouraging

  "Albert Einstein". Book by Dana Meachen Rau (p. 19), 2003.

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  Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

  Aeschylus

  Positivity, Effort, Choices

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• Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Inspirational, Happy, Pain

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• There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

  Anthony de Mello

  Inspirational, Happy, Attitude

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.4, Image

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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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• Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

  Immanuel Kant

  Happy, Sound Doctrine, May

  "Critique of Practical Reason". Book by Immanuel Kant, 1788.

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  Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Carpe Diem, Live In The Moment

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.97, NYU Press

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