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Happiness Quotes


"The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others."


"A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose."


"The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can."


"Protect your health. Without it you face a serious handicap for success and happiness."


"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it."


"Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier."


"It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch."


"The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past."


"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."


"The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness."


"Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are."


"The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison."



"We only realize what happiness is about, after it has slammed the door to our inattention; and killing silence has deafened the tunefulness of our life. ['Happy days are back again']"


"Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity."


"Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine."


"Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage."


"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."


"I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness."


"Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens."


"There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid."


"Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children."


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