They Make Me Happy Quotes

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 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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Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.

Mary Lou Retton

Inspirational, Life, Positive

Mary Lou Retton (2000). “Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness: 7 Ways to a More Peaceful, More Prosperous, More Satisfying Life”, Broadway

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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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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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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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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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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 makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

Life, Happiness, Yoga

Title of poem (1942)

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I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

Douglas Adams

Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.173, Del Rey

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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 was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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If you don't enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you're not going to be happy. If someone bases his happiness or unhappiness on major events like a great new job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn't going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

Andy Rooney

Inspiring, Happiness, Happy

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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Friedrich Koenig

Love, Life, Happiness

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To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.

Mary, Queen of Scots

Happiness, Being Happy, You Make Me Happy

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Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

Leo Tolstoy

Happiness, You Make Me Happy, Vacation

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If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.

Andy Rooney

Happiness, Being Happy, Flower

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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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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If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

Morris West

Happiness, Summer, Christian

Morris L. West (1993). “Three complete novels”, Outlet

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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Confucius

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.

Herman Cain

Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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

Denis Waitley

Life, Motivational, Happiness

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If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

Happiness, Success, Happy

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