Happy People Quotes - Page 3

• The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.

  Larry McMurtry

  Sadness, People, Sorrow

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Some Can Whistle”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do, or doing a thing badly, unsuccessfully or incompetently. Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to those who do their work well, followed by a refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day.

  Lin Yutang

  Work, People, Unhappy

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• When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence.

  Bruce Feiler

  Children, Skills, People

  Bruce Feiler (2013). “The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play and Much More”, p.159, Hachette UK

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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

  Happiness, Peace, War

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• Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.

  Seth Godin

  Successful, People, Generosity

  "The generosity boomerang". sethgodin.typepad.com. April 23, 2014.

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• Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south - let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Blessed, Practice, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.276, Wildside Press LLC

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• Good and happy people who believe in God are the greatest living arguments for God's existence

  Dennis Prager

  Believe, People, Argument

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• A child gets sick with a chronic disease of unhappiness not from unhappy circumstances but from unhappy people around him. Unhappy people cannot raise happy children; it's impossible.

  Simon Soloveychik

  Children, Sick, People

  Simon Soloveychik (2010). “Parenting for Everyone: Where Do Good Children Come From?”, p.30, Aigul Aubanova

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• In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.

  Mick Fleetwood

  Running, Order, People

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• In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  People, Lawyer, Martians

  Edgar Rice Burroughs, Aaron Parrett (2004). “The Martian Tales Trilogy”, p.58, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more happy people." "And a lot fewer poems and plays," I said, laughing as I splashed about in the scented water.

  Sherwood Smith

  Play, Differences, Water

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• Onyx is angry," Damian says. "Onyx has a right to be angry. You've got to remember, for many elephants, their life is that of a human in a war-torn country. Ravaged homes, killed relatives, separation," Damian says. Here's another thing I've learned over two months--every elephants here has a sad story. Every captive elephant's story is one of loss and separation. Something to remember every time you see happy people getting elephant rides.

  Deb Caletti

  Country, War, Home

  Deb Caletti (2010). “Nature of Jade”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Fighting, People, World

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• The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.

  Abraham Maslow

  Happiness, People, Important

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons

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• How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Frustration, People

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• Happy people are rarely interesting.

  Janette Rallison

  People, Interesting

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fun, Moving, People

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.

  Deborah Smith

  People, Getting Older, Looks

  Deborah Smith (2006). “The Crossroads Cafe”, p.228, BelleBooks

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• Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions.

  Martin Seligman

  Happiness, Pain, People

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.42, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Oh, I'm developing a beautiful character! It droops a bit under cold and frost, but it does grow fast when the sun shines. That's the way with everybody. I don't agree with the theory that adversity and sorrow and disappointment develop moral strength. The happy people are the ones who are bubbling over with kindliness.

  Jean Webster

  Beautiful, Disappointment, Character

  Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.35, Jester House Publishing

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• I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Sweaters, People, Feelings

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• I do try to say, God’s will be done, sir,” said the Squire, looking up at Mr. Gibson for the first time, and speaking with more life in his voice; “but it’s harder to be resigned than happy people think.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Thinking, Voice, People

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.2887, BookCaps Study Guides

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• It's fun to play happy people.

  Amy Ryan

  Fun, Play, People

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• There is an island fantasy A "Someday I'll," we'll never see When recession stops, inflation ceases Our mortgage is paid, our pay increases That Someday I'll where problems end Where every piece of mail is from a friend Where the children are sweet and already grown . . . . Most unhappy people . . . put happiness on "law away" And struggle through a blue today . . . . Life's most important revelation Is that the journey means more than the destination . . .

  Denis Waitley

  Sweet, Children, Struggle

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• There is no need to mention the great difference between the amount of satisfaction there is in just oneself being happy and the amount of satisfaction there is in an infinite number of people being happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Differences, Numbers, People

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