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Happiness Quotes


"Celebration and laughter are two of the richest gifts of life."



"The practice of sympathetic joy is rooted in inner development. It's not a matter of learning techniques to "make friends and influence people. Instead, we build the foundations of our own happiness. When our own cup is full, we more easily share it with others."



"It is not enough to be happy, one must be content."


"The church is blending into the community by embracing what the world enjoys and, in turn, bringing inside the church the world's ideas and interests."


"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 want to be part of the happiness team - let's create the happiness team - from love, not greed, love of life & our planet, true & free."


"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."


"There it is."And he watched with now-gentle sorrow and now-quick delight, and at last quiet acceptance as all the bits and pieces of his house mixed, stirred, settled, poised, and ran steadily again."The Happiness Machine," he said. "The Happiness Machine."


"Beautiful heart always thanks, appriciate and forgive people and enchance life."


"In every circumstance, always remember that you can only be as happy or miserable as you repeatedly interpret your life to be."


"I hope thatwhoever you arewherever you areand no matter howyou are feelingyou will always have somethingto smile about."


"Even the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary simply by doing it with the right people."


"But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along."


"Wanna know the fastest way to unhappiness? Spend your time judging other people's reasons for happiness! That way, you'll quickly lose your own! The next time you look back at yourself (when you've taken a break from judging others) you'll think "Oh! Where did MY happiness go?" because you were too busy thinking that gay people shouldn't be happy... or, you know, something like that."


"There are only 2 paths to happiness in life. Utter Stupidity or Exceptional Wealth."


"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."


"Love, positivity and gratitude are the most essential ingredients to a happy and fulfilled life."


"When we understand who we are, and how our realities work, we can choose more consciously to shape our lives in an optimal way. Knowledge of oneself is the very key to a happy life. Happiness is not something outside of our own consciousness that needs to be earned, and achieved. It is a choice that needs to be supported by positive actions. It is not enough to say that we want to be happy. Our desire of happiness, love and peace, needs to be supported by our state of being."


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


"I'm Posting What Makes Me Happy, Not What's Satisfying you."


"Happiness is the inevitable prize of repeated positive interpretations of one's experiences."


"Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more."


"Happiness is surrounding yourself only with those who bestow their unconditional love and support."



"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."



"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."


"We have at our fingertips every pleasure that man is capable of enjoying, and man has abused every gift God ever gave him."


"Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before."



"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not."


"The commencement of true happiness is the realization that your happiness begins with you."



"Smiling at someone can have significant health consequences."


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


"Logan stopped and gazed skyward as the kite began to soar above them, and when he clapped his hands at Ben's obvious joy, she was strucked by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people."



"Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow."
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