Looking For Happiness Quotes

• Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Happiness, Being Happy, Self Esteem

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• Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

  Hosea Ballou

  Happiness, Happy, Real

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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• No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

  Thomas Fuller

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

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• Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Happy, Buddhist

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• Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Happiness, Marriage

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12

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• It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Happiness, Inspiring

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• Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Life, Positive, Happiness

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• Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Happiness, Happy, Gratitude

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.168

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• Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.153, Matthew Gordon

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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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  Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

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• Happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.

  Roy M. Goodman

  Inspirational, Positive, 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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• You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  "Youthful Writings". Book by Albert Camus, October 1932.

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• If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Happiness, Happy

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• Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

  George Burns

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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  Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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• People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Happy, Summer

  'The Three Sisters' (1901) act 2

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• Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Happiness, Happy, Spring

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.127, Routledge

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• Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

  William Feather

  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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• I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

  Henry Miller

  Happiness, Money, Determination

  Henry Miller, Mary V. Dearborn (2007). “Crazy Cock”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

  Anne Frank

  Happiness, God, Lonely

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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• Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

  Sigmund Freud

  Happiness, Being Happy, Wisdom

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.17, Courier Dover Publications

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