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Happiness Quotes


"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 feeling of joy if not shared or tasted is a waste of a chance to be embraced."


"True happiness that stands the taste of time comes by recognizing and appreciating what we do possess."


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


"The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable."



"Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose."


"It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy."


"Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness."


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


"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it."


"Being happy is not a privilege-it is something everyone deserves."


"Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."


"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."


"Happy is still Happy, with or without the Ever After."


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


"I love to laugh. Especially in times of trouble and sadness. It helps us get through the hard times of life and is also an important part of all our relationships. Laughter is a gift from God that opens our hearts. Laughing heals our hearts and brings us together."


"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."


"Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love."


"People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you're fortunate. But happiness is the result 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."


"I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it."


"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."


"A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature."


"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive."
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