Pursuit Of Happiness Quotes

• 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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• It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

  Denis Waitley

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

  Hugh Downs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Graduation, Dream

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• You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 22, 2017

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• We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  "Humor, Play, & Laughter : Stress-proofing Life with Your Kids" by Joseph A. Michelli, (p. 88), 1998.

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• Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.

  Ralph Marston

  Happiness, Happy, Football

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  Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 02, 2015

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• The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

  C.P. Snow

  Love, Happiness, Happy

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  Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• Happiness is a form of courage.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Change, Happiness

  Declaration of Independence (1776).

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• The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

  Epictetus

  Happiness, Truth, Honesty

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• Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

  Gautama Buddha

  Love, Happiness, Happy

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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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• I'm on the pursuit of happiness, and I know, Everything that shine ain't always gonna be gold, Hey, I'll be fine once I get it, I'll be good...

  Kid Cudi

  Shining, Gold, Fine

  "Song: Pursuit of Happiness (Man on the Moon: The End of Day)". January 25, 2010.

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• We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

  Paul Ryan

  Believe, Government, Liberty

  "Paul Ryan State Of The Union Response: Speech Addresses Spending, Health Care & More". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2011.

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• I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Happiness, Sex, Liberty

  Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1974). “The Victoria Woodhull Reader”, Weston, Mass. : M&S Press

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• Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness.

  Pope Francis

  Relationship, Happiness, Happy

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for life. This right to life cannot be granted or denied by government because it does not come from government, it comes from the creator of life.

  George W. Bush

  Government, America, Liberty

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• It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?

  Chris Gardner

  Thinking, Independence, Liberty

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• Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

  George A. Sheehan

  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

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• For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

  Jimmy Carter

  Life, Spiritual, Patriotic

  "President, peacemaker, peanut farmer". www.cnn.com. October 11, 2002.

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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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