Happy Quotes - Page 10

• Find joy in the ordinary.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Happiness, Christian

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• Until you have the inner discipline that brings calmness of mind, external facilities and conditions will never bring the joy and happiness you seek. On the other hand, if you possess this inner quality, calmness of mind, a degree of stability within, even if you lack the various external factors that you would normally require to be happy, it will still be possible to live a happy and joyful life.

  Dalai Lama

  Hands, Discipline, Joy

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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, Happiness, Success

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

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• Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

  Mother Teresa

  Happiness, Faith, Mother

  Mother Teresa (1987). “My Life for the Poor”

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• A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all.

  Dalai Lama

  Contentment, Wealth, Relation

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• Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

  Arnold Bennett

  Life, Happiness, Ideas

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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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• Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.

  Carolyn Crane

  Thinking, People, Darkness

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• I’d rather be poor and happy than rich and alone.

  Lady Gaga

  Being Alone, Rich, Poor

  "Lady Gaga raps, rages and shares sex dreams at iTunes Festival" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. September 01, 2013.

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• The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.

  Deepak Chopra

  Happiness, Goal, Want

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  Let's build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky.

  Bob Ross

  Clouds, Sky, Littles

  Attributed to Bob Ross in "Painter Bob Ross remains an iconic figure years after his death" by Ann Curry, NBC News, September 22, 2004.

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• It's a strange phenomenon how this piece of wood, wheels and a turning system has made so many people so happy

  Chris Cole

  Sports, People, Skateboarding

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  There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

  Epictetus

  Happiness, Success, Determination

  Epictetus (2016). “The Philosophy of Epictetus: Golden Sayings and Fragments”, p.87, Courier Dover Publications

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• Happiness is wanting what you have.

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  Happiness, Desire, Wish

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Achingly Alice”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Freedom

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.10, Modern Library

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• What you get will never make you happy; who you become will make you very happy or very sad.

  Jim Rohn

  Very Sad, Make You Happy, Very Happy

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• When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Mind, Contentment, True Happiness

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2003). “The New Meditation Handbook: Meditations to Make Our Life Happy and Meaningful”, p.12, Tharpa Publications UK

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• To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

  Akhenaton

  Inspirational, Happiness, Wisdom

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• There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying, - that is by the union and co-operation of all for the benefit of each.

  Robert Owen

  Happiness, Men, People

  "The Social System - Constitution, Laws, and Regulations of a Community". Book by Robert Owen, 1826.

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• I believe that food is one way to make people happy. I also believe that food can unite people from all walks of life and cultures. When we sit together and eat, we promote better understanding and harmony.Food brings love, peace and compassion to the table.

  Chef Wan

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

  Anthony de Mello

  Inspirational, Happiness, Attitude

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.4, Image

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• Integrity is about being integrated with the spiritual values of the Universe. It is also about being happy, because happiness and joy mean that you're coming into integrity with your soul.

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Happiness, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Feb 01, 2013

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  It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

  John Waters

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. August 16, 2000.

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• I do not think that we have a “right” to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Happiness, Thank You, Thankful

  "Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes".

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• A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Funny, Family, Sad

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.1117, Race Point Pub

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