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Happiness Quotes



"Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot it regards problems large or small as opportunities it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit it "lights the candle" instead of "cursing the darkness.""


"Spring is a season of fruitfulness."



"From the moment one encounters bad company (kusang), there is nothing but unhappiness, thus run away from the bad company. When you feel unhappy inside, know that this is bad company so run from there. Run away from that which arouses unhappiness at its mere sight."


"I may not have all to be happy but I have to be happy with all that I have."



"I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist."


"Can you hold happiness? Can you drink it? Can you taste it? Can you touch it? Of course not, it is immaterial. So, stop looking for it in the material world! Happiness is experienced within; when we bridge the gap between what we want to experience and how we choose to behave."


"The primary thing that people are going to try to take away from you- is the purity of your happiness. Rare is it to find in someone a pure happiness. A happiness so innocent, so spontaneous and so raw... it is the way we are born but it is most often not the way that we die. The world comes in and tries to take that away from you. People come in and try to take that away from you. I have learned not to jump into the pigsty with them. You have to protect the purity of your happiness and the innocence of your joy. People WILL try to take it away. Don't go there, don't let them. Keep what is yours."


"If you do not have Joy, there will be nothing for you to remember."


"I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife."


"Do not allow your happiness to be controlled by the thoughts of others. People are happy for you one minute and then the next they are looking down their noses at you. You have to find within yourself the kind of happiness that withstands the ups and downs of life. No one should have the power to limit or repress your happiness."


"Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity."


"Happiness begins with you. Not with your relationship, your friends, or your job. but with you."


"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."


"There are many sources of happiness. Doing goodness is one of them and one of the best!"


"Whoever has experienced near-death, knows how gracious, it is to be alive."


"Happiness does not depend on a possession. Happiness depends on action and perception."



"Some feel lucky, if they haven't got to be happy, as they don't like their frame of mind to be unravelled and prefer to be left well enough alone. ['C'est quand le bonheur ?']"


"How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest."


"A meaningful life comes with the health, happiness and productivity of our children, family and ourselves. So many people get their wires crossed seeking material goods; the things that make them feel better as a means to happiness. The comfort of knowing our love ones are healthy and happy is the treasure we should seek. That's where happiness rest, laying there for us beyond measure."


"Smiles, rainbows and a grain of rice.I could survive on that!"


"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."


"We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series."


"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."



"When it becomes above normal, material happiness will feel like misery."


"But, like all happiness, it did not last long."


"Build your home in small moments of joy, and you will always feel at home."


"Get this through your head - you are not responsible for other people's happiness."


"Let us look around with a compassionate heart to feel and see the deepest joy of life."


"If today is not your day, then be happy for this day shall never return. And if today is your day, then be happy now for this day shall never return."


"Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others."


"To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live."


"Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others."


"Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in."
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