True Happiness Quotes

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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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• The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Norman Vincent Peale “The Power of Positive Thinking”, Om Books International

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• Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

  Og Mandino

  Happiness, Smile, Happy

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• Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.

  Carolyn Crane

  Thinking, People, Darkness

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• True happiness is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Simple, Found

  Eckhart Tolle (2013). “Guardians of Being: Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs and Cats”, p.12, New World Library

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  If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

  Andy Rooney

  Love, Happiness, Smile

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• Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Happiness, Happy, Running

  James Freeman Clarke (1877). “The hour which cometh, and now is: sermons”

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• There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

  George Sand

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Happiness, Being Happy, Creativity

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• Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

  Earl Nightingale

  Life, Positive, Family

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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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• When one lives attached to money, pride or power, it is impossible to be truly happy.

  Pope Francis

  Happy, Pride, Impossible

  twitter.com. July 24, 2014.

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• when your happiness is someone else's happiness, that is love

  Lana Del Rey

  Love, Happiness, Happy

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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, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

  Dada Vaswani

  Happiness, Happy, Uplifting

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  Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

  Immanuel Kant

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

  Bertrand Russell

  Godlike, Humans, Human Beings

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.238, Routledge

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• Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.272, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

  Adela Rogers St. Johns

  Love, Inspirational, Happiness

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  to my own experience, the highest level of inner calm comes from the
  development of love and compassion. The more concerned we are with the
  happiness of others, the more we increase our own well-being.
  Friendliness and warmth towards others allow us to relax and help us to
  dispel any sense of fear or insecurity so we can overcome whatever
  obstacles we face.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy, Compassion, Insecurity

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• The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

  William Morris

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.94, Cambridge University Press

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• Realize that true happiness lies within you.

  Lucian

  Inspirational, Faith, Wisdom

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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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• When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Happy, Mind, Contentment

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2003). “The New Meditation Handbook: Meditations to Make Our Life Happy and Meaningful”, p.12, Tharpa Publications UK

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