Top 100 Happiness Quotes

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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

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You have never by a word or a deed given me one moment's uneasiness; on the contrary I have felt perpetual gratitude to heaven forhaving given me, in you, a source of so much pure and unmixed happiness.

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Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather ...4

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

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Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable.

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing ...6

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.

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On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

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If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.

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A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

Happiness comes from within10

Happiness comes from within

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The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness.

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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

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Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

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Happiness requires problems

15

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

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And if sun comes / How shall we greet him? / Shall we not dread him, / Shall we not fear him / After so lengthy a / Session with shade?

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Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.

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You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

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Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.

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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

21

What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.

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Mama says that, happiness is from magic rays of sunshine that come down when you're feeling blue.

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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

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For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.

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What woeful stuff this madrigal would be, In some starved hackney sonneteer, or me! But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! how the style refines!

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We're born to be happy, all of us.

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we're all golden sunflowers inside.

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Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.

29

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

30

The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.

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Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.

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My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.

33

Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after, like two dolls in a museum case never bothered by diapers or dust, never arguing over the timing of an egg, never telling the same story twice.

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Life is a dance... Enjoy every step.

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The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.

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Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.

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Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it.

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There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

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When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.

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Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.

41

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

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If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas.

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What is the most profitable? Fellowship with the good. What is the worst thing in the world? The society of evil men. What is the greatest loss? Failure in one?s duty. Where is the greatest peace? In truth and righteousness. Who is the hero? The man who subdues his senses. Who is the best beloved? The faithful wife. What is wealth? Knowledge. What is the most perfect happiness? Staying at home.

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God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

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Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.

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So often, happiness is the extent to which we balance our grandiose expectations with reality.

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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

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A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

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What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.

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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

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Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?

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My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

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When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up, I wanted to be a social worker or a missionary or a teacher... Then I got involved with tennis, and everything was just me, me, me. I was totally selfish and thought about myself and nobody else, because if you let up for one minute, someone was going to come along and beat you. I really wouldn't let anyone or any slice of happiness enter... I didn't like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.

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Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

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The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.

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Dustfinger still clearly remembered the feeling of being in love for the first time. How vulnerable his heart had suddenly been! Such a trembling, quivering thing, happy and miserably unhappy at once.

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Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and look back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.

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What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

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There are two kinds of satisfaction or happiness: one mainly through mental peace; another physical comfort

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Helping others is not limited to providing food, shelter, and so forth, but includes relieving the basic causes of suffering and providing the basic causes of happiness.

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Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it.

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Happiness does not come about only due to external circumstances; it mainly derives from inner attitudes.

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You're happy when you help others become happy.

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You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

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Would you sell both your eyes for a million dollars...or your two legs...or your hands...or your hearing? Add up what you do have, and you'll find you won't sell them for all the gold in the world. The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate them.

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Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.

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No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

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A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.

69

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.

70

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition.

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Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.

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Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.

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Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

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Real bliss is to have peace of mind.

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Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

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Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.

78

I think happiness is what makes you pretty.

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It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.

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Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

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All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being. As long as I am my mind, I am those cravings, those needs, wants, attachments, and aversions, and apart from them there is no "I" except as a mere possibility, an unfulfilled potential, a seed that has not yet sprouted.

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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

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By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.

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Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.

85

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

87

Simply to have all the necessities of life and three meals a day will not bring happiness. Happiness is hidden in the unnecessary and in those impractical things that bring delight to the inner person. . . . When we lack proper time for the simple pleasures of life, for the enjoyment of eating, drinking, playing, creating, visiting friends, and watching children at play, then we have missed the purpose of life. Not on bread alone do we live but on all these human and heart-hungry luxuries.

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The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

90

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

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There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

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To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.

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There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.

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Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to buy, either for cash or on installments.

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Optimism is true moral courage.

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The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy. Most of you say, 'When I get that I will be joyful.' And we say, until you are joyful, you will not get that. You must start with the decision-with the determination-with the insistence that, 'I will not settle for less than feeling good.'

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Nobody else knows your reason for being. You do. Your bliss guides you to it. When you follow your bliss, when you follow your path to joy, your conversation is of joy, your feelings are of joy - you're right on the path of that which you intended when you came forth into this physical body.

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The purpose of life is Joy.

99

The only true measure of success is the amount of joy we are feeling.

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I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.

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