Happiness Quotes - Page 7

• People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happy, Summer, Gratitude

  'The Three Sisters' (1901) act 2

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• Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Happy, Leadership

  "Looking Forward".

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• There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

  Maria Mitchell

  Happy, Beauty, Beautiful

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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

  "A Place Where Happiness Is Truly Supreme" by Ed and Deb Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 2, 2012.

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  Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life, Happy, Smart

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Garden of Eden”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Being Happy, Healing, Positivity

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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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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• 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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• If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Happy, Humor

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  You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.

  Bette Davis

  Weight Loss, Expectations, Decision Making

  "Great Thoughts to Sell By: Quotes to Motivate You to Success". Book by Gerhard Gschwandtner, 2007.

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

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Positive, Happy

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• The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Marriage, Giving

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.228, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• 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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