Happiness Quotes - Page 7

• If you pursue happiness you never find it.

  C.P. Snow

  Inner Peace, Pursue, Ifs

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• I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

  J. D. Salinger

  Inspirational, Happy, Fear

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• Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Happy, Littles, Excitement

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.102, Pushkin Press

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• We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

  Anne Frank

  Happy, Soulmate, Diversity

  1944 Diary entry, 6 Jul.

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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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• There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

  Henry Ford

  Work, Inspiration, Joy

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• Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Uplifting, Funny Inspirational, Achievement

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• Isn't it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?

  Jim Carrey

  Feel Good, Feels

  Twitter post from Feb 14, 2010

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• There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Yoga, Benefits, World

  'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'An Apology for Idlers'

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• Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.

  Mason Cooley

  Wisdom, Memories, Forgetfulness

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• Happiness was born a twin.

  Lord Byron

  Inspirational, Twins, Born

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.245, Routledge

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• Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.4, Macmillan

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• Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Life, Success, Encouragement

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.174, Wildside Press LLC

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• I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Positivity, Thinking, Millions

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Happiness is anyone and anything that's loved by you.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Wedding

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• It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Too Much, Obstacles

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• Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Life, Thank You

  "Christ's Second Coming Fulfilled". Book by Marion Morris, 1917.

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• No man is happy who does not think himself so.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Success, Happy

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 584, 1856.

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• There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

  Mark Twain

  Happy, People, Joy

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.103, Book Tree

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• Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

  Groucho Marx

  Positive, Good Morning, Happy

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• He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Eulogy, Done, Enjoy

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• When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.

  Nelson Mandela

  Hate, People, Prison

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• For, if we take an examination of what is generally understood by happiness, as it has respect either to the understanding or the senses, we shall find all its properties and adjuncts will herd under this short definition: that it is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.

  Jonathan Swift

  Possession, Deceived, Wells

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• Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients: action, pleasure and indolence.

  David Hume

  Feelings, Three, Ingredients

  David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary”, p.266

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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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