Happiness Quotes - Page 7

• If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Change, Music

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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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• All happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy.

  Shantideva

  Desire

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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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• The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Just Be Happy, How To Be Happy

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• Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.

  Dale Carnegie

  Leadership, Jobs, Future

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• Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

  Carl Sandburg

  Running, Hands, Joy

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Fighting, Fairy Stories, Dragons

  Alexandre Dumas (2003). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.18, Bantam Classics

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• If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

  Andy Rooney

  Being Happy, Flower, Naps

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• Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the wrongs of the world around us. But inside ourselves, near the core, if we are happy, we are at peace.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Peace, War, Odds

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• It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Inspiring, Happy

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• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

  Charles Morgan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Life, Being Happy

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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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• It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Work, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.100, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Be happy, and a reason will come along.

  Robert Breault

  Reason, Happy And Content

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• The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

  John D. Rockefeller III

  Inspirational, Success, Happy

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  We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

  Alice Walker

  Success, Being Happy, Perseverance

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• Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Positive Thinking, Stay Positive, Famous Basketball

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1905). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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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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• In this regard, pleasure is an event; happiness is a process. Pleasure is an end point; happiness is the journey. Pleasure is material; happiness is spiritual. Pleasure is self-involved; happiness is outer- and other-involved.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Being Happy, Spiritual, Happy Life

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  Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

  Andy Rooney

  Inspirational, Happy, Business

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