Happy Quotes - Page 11

• Best things in life aren't things.

  Mike Ness

  Inspirational, Family, Happiness

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• My ambition is to be happy.

  Penelope Cruz

  Ambition, Actresses, True Happiness

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• Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Feelings, Degrees

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.10, Princeton University Press

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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'm not interested in fame and glory. It's just that I would like others to know what a happy dance this is.

  Frankie Manning

  Dance, Glory, Fame

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• It's really important for people who are HIV positive to reach out to let other people know that they can be tested, they can find out they can still live a life -- a positive life, a happy life.

  Laura Bush

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "First Lady Winds Up West Africa Trip". www.foxnews.com. January 18, 2006.

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• When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Humorous, Cat, Thinking

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• Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

  Dada Vaswani

  Happiness, Uplifting, Peace

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• Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I'm happy.

  Anna Gavalda

  Love, Relationship, Happiness

  Anna Gavalda (2005). “Someone I Loved”, p.77, Penguin

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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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• Imagine craving absolutely nothing from the world. Imagine cutting the invisible strings that so painfully bind us: what would that be like? Imagine the freedoms that come from the ability to enjoy things without having to acquire them, own them, possess them. Try to envision a relationship based on acceptance and genuine care rather than expectation. Imagine feeling completely satisfied and content with your life just as it is. Who wouldn't want this? This is the enjoyment of non-attachment.

  Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche

  Inspirational, Life, Relationship

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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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• 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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• 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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• Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

  J. K. Rowling

  Happiness, Book, Reading

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• If you're happy in a dream, does that count?

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, Novelists, Doe

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• Not every sky will be blue and not every day is springtime. So on the spiritual path a person learns to find this kind of happiness without needing nice things to happen on the outside. Rather, you find happiness by being who you really are. This isn't mystical. Young children are happy being who they are. The trick is to regain such a state when you are grown and have seen the light and dark sides of life.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Happiness, Spiritual

  Deepak Chopra (2012). “Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges”, p.130, Harmony

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• I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.

  John Green

  Happiness, Best Wishes, Want

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• One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.

  Piers Anthony

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Self

  "Fractal Mode". Book by Piers Anthony, January, 1992.

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• Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Humility, Men, Self

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• The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Partying for the Planet and Dancing With God (at Burning Man)" by Leah Lamb, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2012.

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• It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

  Agnes Repplier

  Happiness, Women, Recovery

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• If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.

  Jim Rohn

  Past, Thinking, Decision

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Aug 16, 2012

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• Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

  Earl Nightingale

  Life, Positive, Family

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