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Happiness Quotes


"The most simple things can bring the most happiness."


"The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy."


"So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some."



"True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents."


"There! I can't fix the whole country, and it will only last a few days, but I present you with the sun, on behalf of my dreadfully boring magic.He bows low, holding out his hand. I reach out tentatively, afraid of being burned, but the globe merely hovers above my hand where I slide it on top of Finn's. It's golden and deliciously warm and instantly makes me happier and more at ease than I've been in weeks.I laugh, delighted, and by the look on Finn's face you'd think I was the one who had given him an absurd and wonderful gift."


"I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Overall, I was happiest to be alone; for it was then I was most aware of what I possessed. Free to look out over the rooftops of the city. Happy to be alone in the company of friends, the company of lovers and strangers. Everything, I decided, in this life, was pure pleasure."


"The happiest people are the ones who can build a firm foundation of awesomeness out of the stones people have thrown at them."



"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."


"The history of your happiness is the history of your feeling connected."


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


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


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


"No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind."


"It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil."


"You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness."


"If you make a decision that from here onward you will give the majority of your attention to happy thoughts, you will begin a process of purifying your body. Those happy thoughts will supply your body with the greatest health-booster you could possibly give it.There are endless excuses not to be happy. But if you put happiness off by saying "I'll be happy when..." you'll not only be delaying happiness for the rest of your life, you'll also be diminishing the health of your body. Happiness is your body's miracle elixir, so be happy NOW, no excuses!"


"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."


"Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror."


"Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it."


"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."


"Happiness means knowing how to limit some needs which only diminish us, and being open to the many different possibilities which life can offer."


"Sometimes, one yearns for something.For the ultimate in happiness. I yearn for it,and don't know where to look for it any longer. And I don't know if I would recognize it if I found it. And the longer I look, the more selfish I grow.For I think only of my own happiness. i think I have lost the ability to make someone else happy. If I ever had it. And I suppose we can never be happy unless we can also give happiness."



"I must be happy, he said, it is less pleasant than I should have thought."


"Desire is individual. Happiness is common."


"HAPPINESS comes from within. To be happy is to know oneself. It's not in the material things that we own, it's the love we have and show to the world."



"I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little."
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