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Happiness Quotes


"Delight and cheer in life, and let it uplift and inspire you. Spread happiness."


"The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it's like, for the first time in my life, I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness."


"The unhappy people of the known paths must certainly try the unknown paths in their search of happiness!"


"Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man."


"Death for the Christian is the doorway to heaven's glory. Because of Christ's resurrection we can joyously say with Paul, “Where, O death, is your victory?” [1 Corinthians 15:55 NIV]."


"I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience."


"Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak."


"Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day."


"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all."


"I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness."


"When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness."


"I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness."


"Relaxation is the beginning of creativity."


"Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness."


"A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations."


"There is only one passion, the passion for happiness."


"The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection."


"Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable."


"Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us."


"We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve."


"It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there."


"Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool."


"The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself."



"He thought about his long life and gave thanks for all the bounty and joy that he had been given. To want more, to wish for yet more, he knew, would be petty. He sighed happily, and listened to the wind sweeping down from the mountains, to the chirping of night birds."


"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor - such is my idea of happiness."


"Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same...happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied."


"I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness."
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