Happy Life Quotes - Page 16

• If you want to be happy, all you have to do is be happy.

  David Zinczenko

  Life, Want, Ifs

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• The great thing that strikes you on looking back is how quickly you have come-how very brief is the span of life on this earth. The warning that one would give, therefore, is that it is well not to fritter it away on things that don't count in the end; nor on the other hand is it good to take life too seriously as some seem to do. Make it a happy life while you have it. That is where success is possible to every man.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Life, Men, Hands

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• The ideas behind the words are simple ones that work in everyday life; find what we most want to do; do it, no matter what; and in the doing be guaranteed a very difficult and a very happy lifetime.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Simple, Ideas

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• Testimony is a result of choice, not circumstance. In all seasons of my life, testimony has been a conscious choice - and this choice has given everything else in my life meaning. Building a testimony is the beginning of building a happy life. Testimony grows step by step as we invest the effort to exercise faith and hope as active parts of everyday living. Prayer is a major tool to help us gain faith and hope.

  Elaine L. Jack

  Life, Prayer, Exercise

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• If we accept all that is wrong about us - and despite it, believe that we are deserving of a happy life - then we will have thrown open an immense window that will allow love to enter.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Believe, Window

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• Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?

  Saint Augustine

  Catholic, Path, Life Is

  Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.104

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• The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mind Your Own Business, Life Is, Made

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• Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of awareness of darkness... as the contrast between what we have and how it could be worse is vital to appreciate anything, including our life, and so be happy and grateful

  Carl Jung

  Gratitude, Grateful, Appreciate

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• To be happy in life... You've got to train your mind to see the good, to be grateful for what you have.

  Joel Osteen

  Gratitude, Grateful, Mind

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• I'm just an all-around happy girl who loves everything about her life.

  Missy Franklin

  Girl, Happy Girl

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• Do not be content with the old anointing. It is essential to a more holy and happy life...that you seek to be anointed with new oil. Do not be satisfied with past experiences. [...] Seek to have a new revelation of Christ to your soul. Seek the renewed application of His precious blood to your conscience. Oh, seek the fresh oil!

  Octavius Winslow

  Past, Blood, Oil

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• When you love life, life will love you back.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Positive, Attitude, Short Life

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• The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.

  Ayad Akhtar

  Secret, Respect Yourself, Life Is

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• An unhappy life is a life not lived.

  Dennis Prager

  Unhappy, Life Is, Unhappy Life

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• Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mind, Littles, Bears

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.42, Lulu.com

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• If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.

  Byron Katie

  Teacher, Children, Way

  Byron Katie (2010). “Question Your Thinking, Change the World”, p.104, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.

  A. A. Gill

  Important Choices, History, Once Upon A Time

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• The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement.

  Aristotle

  Effort, Amusement, Conformity

  Aristotle (1962). “Nicomachean Ethics”

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• All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.

  Billy Graham

  Art, Sunshine, Light

  Billy Graham (2004). “The Enduring Classics of Billy Graham”, p.97, Thomas Nelson

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• It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty, death, and disease as a part of 'God’s Plan' or the greater good — and clinging to ancient texts that preach ill-concealed bigotry and sexism. Instead, we should find ways to make this life happy and satisfying, without regard to the unknowable nature of an afterlife.

  David G. McAfee

  Afterlife, Time On Earth, Disease

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Mar 22, 2014

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• The secret to a happy life is to recognize that no matter what the situation, there's a creative opportunity in it. Also, finding meaning and purpose in your life to make a contribution.

  Deepak Chopra

  Opportunity, Creative, Secret

  "What's the Secret to a Happy Life? Oprah Talks to Deepak Chopra". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May 15, 2012.

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• I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

  Isabel Allende

  Strength, Strong, Loss

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• Looking back on a happy life, one realizes that one was not happy all the time.

  Robert Breault

  Happiness, Realizing, Not Happy

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• A life of love is difficult, but it is not a bleak or unrewarding life. In fact, it is the only true human and happy life, for it is filled with concerns that are as deep as life, as wide as the whole world, and as far reaching as eternity. It is only when we have consented to love, and have agreed to forget ourselves, that we can find our fulfillment. This fulfillment will come unperceived and mysterious like the grace of God, but we will recognize it and it will be recognized in us.

  John Powell

  Love, Grace, World

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