Joy And Happiness Quotes

• Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Peace, Morning

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.11, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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  Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

  Marcel Proust

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

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

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• Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love, Positive, Happiness

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• To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Laughter, Philosophical

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations (Diversion Classics)”, p.219, Diversion Books

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• Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

  Adela Rogers St. Johns

  Love, Inspirational, Happiness

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• Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Happiness, Depression

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• Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.

  Henri Nouwen

  Happiness, Opportunity, True Joy

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• The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

  Mother Teresa

  Happiness, Happy, Faith

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

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• Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

  Omar Khayyam

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Christ's Second Coming Fulfilled". Book by Marion Morris, 1917.

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• An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “Wisdom and Destiny: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.77, 谷月社

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• There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else.

  Peyton C. March

  Love, Happiness, Karma

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• To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Happiness, Happy, Morning

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• I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.

  Drew Barrymore

  Happiness, Beauty, Beautiful

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• He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

  William Blake

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.6, Wordsworth Editions

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• Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Positive, Happiness, Happy

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• Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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  Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

  Aeschylus

  Happiness, Positivity, Effort

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• Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

  John Barrymore

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

  Groucho Marx

  Happiness, Happy, Positive Thinking

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• That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

  Willa Cather

  Happiness, Spiritual, Purpose

  Willa Cather (2011). “My Ántonia (我的安東妮亞)”, p.46, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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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, Happy, Success

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

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• Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

  Groucho Marx

  Positive, Good Morning, Happiness

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