Happy People Quotes - Page 5

• Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

  Judith Guest

  Running, People, Missing

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• A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errorsare only the errors of ignorance, and not the rooted depravity of a pretended civilization, and a spurious and mock Christianity.

  John Gabriel Stedman

  Ignorance, Errors, Civilization

  John Gabriel Stedman (1813). “Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the Year 1772, to 1777:: Elucidating the History of that Country, and Describing Its Productions, ... with an Account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea”, p.396

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• Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly.

  Martha Beck

  Compassion, People, Unhappy

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• Quality has always been the overriding factor for us. But you also have to have happy people working for you.

  Willy Bogner, Jr.

  People, Quality, Factors

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• The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence as a right of all Americans, as well as on the self-improvement shelves of every American bookstore. Yet the scientific evidence makes it seem unlikely that you can change your level of happiness in any sustainable way. It suggests that we each have a fixed range for happiness just as we do for weight. And just as dieters almost always regain the weight they lose, sad people don't become lastingly happy, and happy people don't become lastingly sad.

  Martin Seligman

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Self, People

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.8, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Much of the message that I try to put across to students is that they have to figure out what they really like to do and find a way to do that as an adult for their jobs. A lot of people have jobs they don't like, and it makes for very unhappy people. So I tell them if you like to write, or run around, or dig in the dirt, then find a job that will allow you to do that, and you'll be happy.

  Kadir Nelson

  Running, Jobs, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I just think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness. If somebody walks in the room and they're drop-dead gorgeous and sexy, it's really fun to look at. But if someone is giving of their spirit and they make you laugh and feel good, that's a whole other level of beauty.

  Drew Barrymore

  Beautiful, Sexy, Fun

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

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• Is there any indication we shouldn't be depressed - are you living on the same planet that I am? Do you ever think that depression might be the reasonable human response to the crap we're going through as a species, meant to propel us into the next evolutionary step, or at least into taking some different course of action so we might survive? Do you ever think that maybe it's the happy people that are really screwed up in the head?

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Marc Maron - Bipolar Coaster". "Comedy Central Presents", Season 11, Episode 1, www.cc.com. January 12, 2007.

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• Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Selfish, People, Goal

  "Are You Happy Now?". Chat with readers, www.slate.com. January 15, 2009.

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• The exit from agony is always there. The tunnel out of the agony sector is always in front of you and yet you don't take it. You don't take it by choice. You want to indulge a lot and be in pain. The easiest way out is to write a list of what you're grateful for. If everybody literally did that before they went to bed at night, there'd be no unhappy people.

  Jim Carrey

  Pain, Grateful, Writing

  View London Interview, www.viewlondon.co.uk.

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• Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn’t-fair results, it turns out that the happy out-perform the less happy.

  Gretchen Rubin

  People, Week, Hours

  "Balanced Life — Want To Be Happy at Work? Dozens of Tips, Plus a Few Quizzes, To Consider" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 19, 2010.

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• Happy people continuously change; and because they change they become more and more happy; and then more and more change is possible.

  Rajneesh

  People

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• I saw all that [white trash] growing up in Alabama and Georgia. I had a group of country cousins and we'd go visit them when I was a kid. They lived on a red dirt Georgia back road, in a shack, with twelve kids. Farmers. No electricity, they had a well on their back porch, but they had nothing, yet they were the happiest, freest people I'd ever met. I loved to visit them. Great sense of humor, and they kept up with all the latest music, country, rockabilly, that stuff. Great food they grew in the fields and canned. Happy people.

  Steve Young

  Country, Cousin, Growing Up

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

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• If you're making yourself vulnerable in your writing, then they know where to hurt you, which is extra fun. I had to develop coping mechanisms on the fly, and slowly it got better, to the point where now I barely notice. I'm like an old, gnarly turtle now. The interaction with the troll who impersonated my dad made me start to understand who these people are, and I figured out, in a really profound way, that happy people don't do this. It's hard to feel afraid of someone when you pity them.

  Lindy West

  Hurt, Fun, Dad

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I don't know what's going to happen. But I will say this, you're going to have a lot of very unhappy people. And I think, frankly, for the Republicans to disenfranchise all those people because if that happens, they're not voting and the Republicans lose. If they - if the Republicans embraced these great people that are showing up, the Republicans are going to have a massive victory.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, People, Voting

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn't fit humans. Humans can't possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed. It is a religion that works against you because the template don't fit. It's not human, you know.

  Jerry Garcia

  Religious, Thinking, People

  Source: medium.com

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• What I wish I had said in the book [Falling Upward] is that part of the attraction of conservative religions, such as Mormonism, Mennonite, Amish, groups we would consider very traditional, is that they actually do the first half of life very well. They are often very happy people.

  Richard Rohr

  Book, Fall, People

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• The Democrats are as concerned about raising our kids and making sure that the values of empathy and hard work and discipline and self-respect are instilled in our children, and I've got a six-year-old daughter and a three-year-old daughter, and I'm not afraid to talk about how I want to provide them with the sort of cultural framework that's going to allow them to be successful, happy people.

  Barack Obama

  Daughter, Children, Kids

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I am definitely not the normal girl. I'm not some skinny blond, you know? I chose strong over skinny. So, I am honored that people think I'm sexy. I'm just really happy people accept me as I am and I don't have to change.

  Janina Gavankar

  Girl, Sexy, Strong

  Source: www.complex.com

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• The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.

  Ira Glass

  People, Culture, Miserable

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I know there are supposedly happy people in this world. I never believed it, but I take it for granted. God knows, they're all on television.

  Maurice Sendak

  People, World, Granted

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• One of the ways to be happy, to be truly happy, is to contribute to a cause that is greater than yourself. And, through Harvard-based research, we can see that happy people live longer.

  Sheryl WuDunn

  People, Research, Way

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• The Saudis are so happy. People don't understand, the Saudi Arabian government - kingdom - hates Iran. They're scared to death of Iran. That's Shi'a versus Sunni Muslim, and the Iranians are Persians. They're not Arabs. So it's a double whammy. There is no love lost, and the Saudis have been petrified over Barack Obama's peace dance and nuclear dealings with the nation of Iran. They are ecstatic to have Donald Trump.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Hate, Lost Love, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• How can I look back and not speak of the stupid learning about birth? Of the stupid learning that people make love, and how it seemed the reason for all things, the intimacy of my wondering, the illumination that to an adolescent was the cause for life around me, the reason why the unhappy people I knew did not kill themselves?

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Stupid, Illumination, People

  "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser p. 222, 1949.

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• The saying goes that history repeats itself; personal histories do the same. We can gather the lessons of others' lives through observation, conversation, and by seeking advice. We can use the automatic system to find out who the happy people are, and the reflective system to evaluate how they got to be that way. Pursuing happiness need not be a lonely endeavor. In fact, throwing in our lot with others may be a very good way of coping with the disappointments of choice.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Lonely, Disappointment, People

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