Joy Happiness Quotes

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Charles Morgan

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Dale Carnegie

Life, Motivational, Positive

Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Dalai Lama

Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results.

Denis Waitley

Life, Motivational, Happiness

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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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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

Dalai Lama, Victor Chan (2012). “The Wisdom of Compassion: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights”, p.11, Random House

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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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, Happy, Women

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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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The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

Ashley Montagu

Happiness, Happy, Being Happy

Ashley Montagu (1967). “The American Way of Life”

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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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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Happiness, Being Happy, Creativity

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I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Groucho Marx

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4990, Delphi Classics

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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Albert Camus

Happiness, Happy, Laughter

"The Fall". Book by Albert Camus, 1956.

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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Gautama Buddha

Happiness, Happy, Buddhist

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Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Daphne du Maurier

Happiness, Positivity, Inner Peace

Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel”, p.11, Hachette UK

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Whoever is happy will make others happy.

Anne Frank

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

Anne Frank (1952). “The diary of a young girl”

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All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

Happiness, Running, Reality

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Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.

Rose Wilder Lane

Happiness, Happy, Gratitude

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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Maxim Gorky

Inspirational, Happiness, Success

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Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Jacques Prevert

Positive, Happiness, Happy

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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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