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Happiness Quotes

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"Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions."
Aristotle
"Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions."
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"We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does."
Mary Gordon
"We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does."
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"Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted."
Deepak Chopra
"Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted."
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"Happiness is a collection of joyful experiences shared with soul friends. Get together and have some fun!"
Amy Leigh Mercree
"Happiness is a collection of joyful experiences shared with soul friends. Get together and have some fun!"
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"It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses."
Sarah Orne Jewett
"It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses."
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"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."
Edward Fitzgerald
"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."
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"Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you."
Aron Ralston
"Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you."
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"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances."
Martha Washington
"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances."
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"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."
George Santayana
"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."
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"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."
Bob Brown
"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."
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"The light within us dances when we smile."
Jay Woodman
"The light within us dances when we smile."
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"Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."
Thomas Jefferson
"Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."
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"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
Kin Hubbard
"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed."
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"I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy."
Ursula K. LeGuin
"I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy."
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"There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness."
Liberty Hyde Bailey
"There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness."
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"I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness."
Queen Victoria
"I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness."
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"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."
Rhonda Byrne
"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."
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"While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
Sarah Vowell
"While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
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"All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin."
Lord Byron
"All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin."
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"Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition."
Arthur Rubinstein
"Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition."
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"Joy is God's smile, love is God's laughter."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"Joy is God's smile, love is God's laughter."
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"The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression."
Gary Larson
"The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression."
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"You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness."
Brad Garrett
"You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness."
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"Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources."
Herbert Spencer
"Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources."
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"True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others."
William J. H. Boetcker
"True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others."
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"Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life."
Alexander Smith
"Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life."
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"Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive."
Ursula K. Le Guin
"Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive."
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"For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness."
Aeschylus
"For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness."
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"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."
Maria Montessori
"One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child."
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"It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart."
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"The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing."
Walter Benjamin
"The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing."
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"While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure."
Bryant McGill
"While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure."
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"The heart dances with joy when you're sharing."
Debasish Mridha
"The heart dances with joy when you're sharing."
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"The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number."
William Dean Howells
"The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number."
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"How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success."
William Ellery Channing
"How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success."
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"I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness."
Mary MacLane
"I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness."
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"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."
Albert Camus
"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."
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"Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness."
George Sand
"Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness."
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"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."
Joyce Meyer
"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."
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"Life becomes pleasurable when you are moving in the direction of your calling."
Sunday Adelaja
"Life becomes pleasurable when you are moving in the direction of your calling."
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"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."
Sharon Salzberg
"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."
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"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."
Alphonse de Lamartine
"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."
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"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life."
Leo Buscaglia
"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life."
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"The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible."
Bertrand Russell
"The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible."
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"We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves."
Ethel Percy Andrus
"We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves."
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"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."
Thomas Traherne
"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."
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"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."
Kurt Vonnegut
"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."
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"It's okay, I tell her."It is okay to be happy."
David Levithan
"It's okay, I tell her."It is okay to be happy."
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"There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so."
Jose Marti
"There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so."
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"Happiness is not the victory, success or accomplishment; it is what happens at the end of the day?"
M.F. Moonzajer
"Happiness is not the victory, success or accomplishment; it is what happens at the end of the day?"
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