Perfect Happiness Quotes

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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Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

Annette Funicello

Life, Wisdom, Motivation

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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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Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you can't change.

Drake

Inspirational, Life, Change

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Happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.

Roy M. Goodman

Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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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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Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh..apologiz e..let go of what you can't change.

George Carlin

Letting Go, Life Is Too Short, Perfect

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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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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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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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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

Storm Jameson (1941). “The End of this War”

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

Janet Lane-Claypon

Love, Life, Relationship

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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Bertrand Russell

Happiness, Happy, Hippie

Attributed to Bertrand Russell, Think, Vol. 27 (p. 32), 1961.

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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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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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So you have to take the good with the bad.

Candace Parker

Smile, Life Going On, Goes On

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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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People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Happiness, Happy, Mean

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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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Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it is what I have steadfastly believed.

Thomas Jefferson

Happiness, Believe, Perfect

Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.187

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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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In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

Franz Kafka

Happiness, Laughter, Believe

Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker

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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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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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