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Happiness Quotes


"When Kate was born, she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy, she's thriving, she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school."


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


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


"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."


"To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness."


"Humour sustains us during failure; more so after success, when we're prone to fail that much more, daring abyss, pumped up with success."


"So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great."



"Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think."


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


"I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about."


"Happiness is not a thing - it is a feeling, a way of joyful living and being. It comes from inner fulfilment and appreciating the world you live in."


"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."


"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."


"The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers."



"Happiness lies with us only. Desire for experiencing interactive pleasure is because of the association with the ignorance (of the Self). The one who does not have such association, he will 'realize' true happiness."


"Drizzle happiness wherever you go."


"Happiness is awaiting you every moment of each day for you to embrace. You just make the mistake that you need to achieve 'this' or 'that' or reach something you call 'success' in order to gain it."


"For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else's face."


"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."


"Three more words. Be happy. Persevere."



"We can give happiness a chance: happiness is learnable. Life is a choice and happiness is a question of focusing, hearing and seeing the right things behind the appearances. It is a matter of finding out, differencing worthiness and irrelevance, connectedness and distantness, warmth and aloofness, brightness and dimness. Happiness is the lucky potential to steer friskily along the cliffs of the unknown avoiding the obstacles of narcissism and conceit. [' Happiness blowing in the wind. ']"


"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love."



"Is happiness a sort of blissful state of mind or just a kind of surreal propensity? It may be hard to recognize its very nature, if we remain guilelessly confined in a state of woeful unawareness or in a no-man's-land of emotions. In their dogged and obstinate quest for the zenith of happiness, many forget to take pleasure in the small things of everyday and, thus, become disgruntled and depressed instead, which leads them to a mire of gloom. ['C'est quand le bonheur ']"


"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul."


"I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving."


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


"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."
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