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List of happiness quotes
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This is a list of happiness quotes
A continuation of happenings
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Deepak Chopra
A man's felicityA man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Thomas Carlyle
A net of love
About as happyMost folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln
As miserableA man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
Seneca
Be happy
Being unhappy with someoneIt's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
Marilyn Monroe
But what is happiness?But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus
Consuming happinessNo one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
Helen Keller
Content
EdenEden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day
Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.
Emily Dickinson
Enough happinessMan 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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Filled with joy
Happiness and successYour success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller
Happiness never decreasesThousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha
Happiness to wonder
Happy
Happy lifeA happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Seneca
Having happy thoughtsThe best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
Author Unknown
Health and a course to steerGive a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
How to avoid being miserable?The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
How to be happyIf you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
Human experienceThe marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Helen Keller
I am not proudI am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
Alexandre Dumas
Indisputable rightNo matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
Helen Keller
It is not ready madeHappiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
It may alight upon youHappiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Living happily
Making happiness impossibleIndeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint Augustine
Not a goal
Not the absence but the mastery of passionsThe happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Only one way to happinessThere is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
Practice compassionIf you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama
Right to consume happinessWe have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw
Temperate happinessThe man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Virginia Woolf
The greatest wealthThe greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
Lucretius
The object of lifeMen can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
George Orwell
The purpose of lifeThe purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama
The quality of your thoughtsThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
The secret to happinessThe secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Bertrand Russell
They don't noticePeople don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Anton Chekhov
To be happyTo be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
Troubles and happinessMan only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
True enjoymentI have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
True fulfillmentOnly those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Tony Robbins
True happinessMany persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
True happinessTrue happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
True happiness
True happinessTrue 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.
Seneca
True happinessPeople look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
Eckhart Tolle
UnhappinessMuch unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
What is happiness?Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
What is needed?Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius
When they're happyPeople don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Anton Chekhov
Your thoughts are the causeThe primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.
Eckhart Tolle
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