Happy And Content Quotes

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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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• A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

  Hugh Downs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Happy, Hippie

  Attributed to Bertrand Russell, Think, Vol. 27 (p. 32), 1961.

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  The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

  Alan Cohen

  Happiness, Happy, Want

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• At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Being Happy, Letting Go, Beautiful Life

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.164, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

  Doug Larson

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

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• Be happy, and a reason will come along.

  Robert Breault

  Happiness, Reason

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• We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Happiness, Happy, Wish

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• Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

  Norman MacEwen

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

  Friedrich Koenig

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

  Salvador Dali

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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

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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, Happiness, Happy

  "Looking Forward".

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

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

  Laozi

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Happiness

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

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• It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

  George Burns

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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  Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "3 Things You Can Do to Improve Your Mood in 2 Minutes" by Daniela Tempesta, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2013.

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• Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

  James Oppenheim

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”

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  Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

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