Looking For Happiness Quotes - Page 2

• The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

  Doug Larson

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

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• No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Change, Happiness, Being Happy

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• Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

  Janet Lane-Claypon

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Looks, Misery

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

  Thornton Wilder

  Happiness, Laughter, Acceptance

  1942 The Skin of Our Teeth, act 1.

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• The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  The Friend (1828)

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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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• In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

  Leslie Caron

  Happiness, Happy, Pain

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• If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

  Bertrand Russell

  Change, Happiness, Success

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.90, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

  Bertrand Russell

  Change, Happiness, Happy

  Bertrand Russell, John G. Slater, Peter Köllner (1997). “Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68”, p.395, Psychology Press

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• Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Happiness, Laughter, Flower

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• I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.

  Nicole Kidman

  Peaceful

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Sep 03, 2016

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• Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

  Thornton Wilder

  Life, Ice Cream, Dessert

  1942 The Skin of Our Teeth, act 1.

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• Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

  Anne Frank

  Nature, Believe, Simple

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.107, GENERAL PRESS

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• Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.

  Doug Larson

  Happiness, Being Happy, Stars

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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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• 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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• The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

  William Ralph Inge

  Happiness, Success, Happy

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• If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

  Confucius

  Happiness, Happy, Powerful

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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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• The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

  John Milton

  Happiness, Inspiring, Attitude

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 254 (1667)

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• Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

  Saint Augustine

  Happiness, Happy, Determination

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• Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

  Gerard Way

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

  James Oppenheim

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  James Oppenheim (1916). “War and Laughter”

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