Happy Quotes - Page 14

• We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Happiness, Laughing, Dying

  "Of the Heart". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want.

  Alan Cohen

  Happiness, Want, Appreciate What You Have

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• The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Purpose

  Deepak Chopra (1985). “Creating health: the psychophysiological connection”

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• If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

  Andy Rooney

  Happiness, Being Happy, Flower

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• The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Funny Thanksgiving

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• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

  Marcel Proust

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness.

  Maya Angelou

  Motivational, Responsibility, Light

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 20, 2014

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• Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Happiness, Laughter, Attitude

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• Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple - love, sex and food!

  Meryl Streep

  Sex, Simple, Simple Love

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• From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Smile

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• O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.

  Rumi

  Happiness, Reflection, Soul

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• The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.

  Wendy Mass

  Happiness, Being Yourself, Long

  Wendy Mass (2008). “Every Soul a Star”, p.91, Hachette UK

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• Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Happiness, Sad

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• I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.

  Storm Jameson

  Cities, Invisible, Ifs

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 1: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.98, A&C Black

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• When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Change, Moving, Jumping

  "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanisław Jerzy Lec, translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

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  A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

  Hugh Sidey

  Funny, Happiness, Laughter

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• Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

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• Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Happiness, Health

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• any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

  Clive Barker

  Love, Sad, Art

  Twitter post from Aug 14, 2015

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• I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Butterfly, Chasing Butterflies

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• A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Happiness, Laughter

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2759, Delphi Classics

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  There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

  Jodi Picoult

  Happiness, Reality, Two

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.897, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Happiness, Self

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• Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.

  Paulo Coelho

  Happiness, Miracle, World

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• There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer: no disease that love will not heal: no door that enough love will not open...It makes no difference how deep set the trouble: how hopeless the outlook: how muddled the tangle: how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.

  Emmet Fox

  Love, Happiness, Powerful

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