Happiness Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• 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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• Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Positivity, Inner Peace, Mind

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Angelic

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• Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

  Stephen Fry

  Sorry, Cheer Up, Feelings

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• Smile doesn't mean that someone is happy. Sometimes it just means that you're strong.

  Zayn Malik

  Strength, Smile, Being Strong

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  Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

  Aeschylus

  Positivity, Effort, Choices

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• The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Success, Happy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Material progress and a higher standard of living bring us greater comfort and health, but do not lead to a transformation of the mind, which is the only thing capable of providing lasting peace. Profound happiness, unlike fleeting pleasures, is spiritual in nature. It depends on the happiness of others and it is based on love and affection.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Spiritual, Peace

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• Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Happy, Gratitude, Cheer

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Optimism, Treasure

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• Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Happy, Health

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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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• Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

  Booker T. Washington

  Helping Others, Compassion, Joy

  Booker T. Washington (2016). “Up from Slavery”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else.

  Peyton C. March

  Love, Karma, Law

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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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• He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.

  Aesop

  Attitude, Discontent

  Aesop, Thomas James (1872). “Aesop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.83

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  I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

  Martha Washington

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happy

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• Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

  John Mason Good

  Happy, Running, Acting

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• The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

  Goldie Hawn

  Happy, Attitude, Thinking

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• 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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• 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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• By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Heaven, Degrees, Duration

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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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• All the wealth in the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.

  Marie-Marguerite d'Youville

  Happy, Faith, Inspiration

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