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Happiness Quotes


"Be happy NOW. Feel good NOW. That's the only thing you have to do. And if that's the only thing you get from reading this book, then you have received the greatest truth of The Secret."


"The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment."


"If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?"


"Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning."


"Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty."


"Every single day, no matter who you meet in the day - friends, family, work colleagues, strangers - give joy to them. Give a smile or a compliment or kind words or kind actions, but give joy! Do your best to make sure that every single person you meet has a better day because they saw you."


"The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness."


"Be generous with your smile and try not to frown.And you will see my children, your smile will never let you down."


"Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill."


"Humour sustains us during failure; more so after success, when we're prone to fail that much more, daring abyss, pumped up with success."


"So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great."


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


"If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give."


"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."


"Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops."


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


"Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom."


"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."


"Memory, imagination, and passionately responding in accord with the deeply embedded impulse to act with decency are pliable mechanisms that we can employ to attain happiness."


"Happiness can't be made, it's been around since forever... just freely waiting to be chosen."


"Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy."


"The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of common man."


"It's good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it."


"By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite."


"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."


"Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it."


"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will."


"Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation."
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