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Happiness Quotes


"Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions."


"Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted."


"Happiness is a collection of joyful experiences shared with soul friends. Get together and have some fun!"


"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances."


"A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted."


"In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world."


"The light within us dances when we smile."


"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."


"There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness."


"To get everything you want is an inside job! The outside world is the world of effects; it's just the result of thoughts. Think and bask in happy thoughts. Radiate the feelings of happiness and joy, and transmit that into the Universe with all of your might, and you will experience true heaven on earth."


"All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin."


"Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition."


"Joy is God's smile, love is God's laughter."


"The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression."


"Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources."


"Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive."


"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."


"The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number."


"How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success."


"Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched."



"Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can't let our circumstances or what others do or don't do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless."


"Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else's success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others."


"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."



"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life."


"The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible."


"To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness."


"But people didn't have to pay as much attention to the awful truth. As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in the city and the gentle holy man in the jungle grew, so, too, did the happiness of the people grow. They were all employed full time as actors in a play they understood, that any human being anywhere could understand and applaud."


"It's okay, I tell her."It is okay to be happy."


"Happiness is not the victory, success or accomplishment; it is what happens at the end of the day?"
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