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Happiness Quotes


"Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition."


"Choosing one's leaders is an affirmation that the person making the choice has inherent worth."


"Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination to be utterly happy all the time. Perhaps even in this we were freaks. Hi ho."


"Let it shine, the light in you. Oh, and that's delighting me! Various colors shining through. Elated, it fills my soul with ecstasy."


"When you make such a large withdrawal of happiness, somewhere you'll have to make an equally large deposit. It all goes back to the universal law of equilibrium."


"Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it's only that I'm not able to express it...And what beautiful things there are at every step, that even the most hopeless man must feel to be beautiful! Look at a child! Look at God's sunrise! Look at the grass, how it grows! Look at the eyes that gaze at you and love you!..."


"There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes."


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


"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!"


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


"Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in."


"For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness."


"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."


"Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower."


"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it."


"Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness."


"What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told."


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


"Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled."


"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."


"Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are by their very nature highly uncertain precarious ephemeral and subject to chance."


"Let happiness bloomIn the freshness of your mind,In the gentle wind of your thoughts.On the ground of kindness and compassion."


"Ask yourself whether you are happy and you will cease to be so."


"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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