Top 100 Happiness Quotes

Others can stop you temporarily - you are the only one who can do it ...1

Others can stop you temporarily - you are the only one who can do it permanently.

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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.3

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

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Be happy, and a reason will come along.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.5

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if ...6

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

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A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

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Happiness was born a twin.

9

Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

10

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

11

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

12

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

13

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

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If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go ...15

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

16

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

17

At my aunt's funeral, I promised myself that I wouldn't be bound by the belief that I'm supposed to stay in anything - whether it's a relationship, a job, a house, or a circumstance - if it makes me miserable. She gave me the courage to find my own happiness.

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The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

19

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

20

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.

21

Like the musician, the painter, the poet, and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. And he is born to happiness in this vale of tears, to a certain amount of the purest joy that earth can giver her children, joy that is tranquil, innocent, uplifting, unfailing.

22

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

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A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.

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It seems a strange fact that it is almost more important for us to be happy ourselves than to try to make other people happy. By being happy we confer untold benefits upon our fellow men.

25

What mortal is there, over whose first joys and happiness does not break some storm, dispelling with its icy breath his fanciful illusions, and shattering his altar?

26

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.

27

When we are happy, those around us will be happy, and in turn, those around them will also start to feel the same way. We always have to start with ourself, and the best place to start is to do what makes you feel joyful.

28

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

29

There are two types of people. Those we who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."

30

The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?

31

Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

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We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.

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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.

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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.

35

Space plus whatever you feel equals more whatever you feel, marvelous for happiness, God save you otherwise.

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The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.

37

The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.

38

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

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Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him happy in it; if that man is left at any time without occupation or amusement, and reflects on what he is, the meagre, languid felicity of his present lot will not bear him up. He will turn necessarily to gloomy anticipations of the future; and unless his occupation calls him out of himself, he is inevitably wretched.

40

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

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Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

42

If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.

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Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.

44

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

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Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

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Just remember... it doesn't matter how long you have known each other.. all that matters is that he has kept you smiling from day one

47

It has never been given to a man to attain at once his happiness and his salvation.

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Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

49

Joy is not a thing, it is in us.

50

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.

51

No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.

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To find happiness, it is not quite difficult thing. It is just enough to distinguish the blue of the sky from the pink of peach flowers which are opening out.

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Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.

54

Steal moments of happiness if you have to, and then collect them until they are the dominant images in your psyche.

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I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

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Laughter can bring a new perspective.

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Nature has granted to all to be happy, if we did but know how to use her benefits.

58

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

59

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.

60

There is a new survey out about the happiest professions. I think the whole premise is flawed. You're supposed to find true happiness outside of work. From friends, family, and YouTube videos of old people falling down.

61

The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.

62

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

63

It is by fighting and triumphing over the enemies of the Buddha that we ourselves become Buddhas.

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Happiness in simplicity can be achieved with a flexible mindset and nine hours sleep each night.

65

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

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The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result. ...Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness determines our suffering or not.

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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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The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

69

Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.

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Money comes and goes. I'm thankful I have money. I'm trying to save up more. I would like more money. But it's not happiness. If you're a millionaire and hate your family, hate your friends and your life, then what is the point? You're just a person with a lot of money and power who is not happy.

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Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.

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

73

Success, wealth, good health and nurturing relationships are by-products of happiness, not the cause.

74

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

75

Seriousness is equated with responsibility, when, in fact, I think we would be much more responsible if we had more joy and laughter in our lives.

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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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If you equate happiness with success, you will never achieve the amount of success necessary to make you happy.

78

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

79

One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.

80

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

81

If you're an adult and still think material wealth leads to happiness, might I suggest not being a moron.

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I'm pretty happy for someone who struggles with happiness.

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If we can augment our gift giving by giving more of ourselves to those we love, all the time and in various ways, we will have a good chance of helping them and ourselves live happier, better lives.

84

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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Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread.

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To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.

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There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

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Start each day in my peace and stillness, then you can go forth and face whatever the day may bring in perfect peace and joy.

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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

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Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.

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Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it.

92

I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me; become better without noticing it; become sadder, but enjoy living; become more serene, be happy in others; belong to no one, grow in everyone; love the best, comfort the worst; not even hate myself anymore.

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The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time for anything else--we are the busiest people in the world.

94

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

95

If you knew everything was really was all right, and that it always has a happy ending, then you would not feel trepidacious about your future. Everything is really so very all right! If you could believe and trust that, then, immediately everything would automatically and instantly become all right.

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Your happiness is the most significant contribution that you could make. In your reaching for happiness, you are opening a vortex which makes you an avenue for the Well-being to flow through you. And anything that is your object of attention under those conditions, benefits by the infusion of your Well-being.

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Always, when you know what you don't want, that's when the rocket of desire is born of what you do want. That is the fruit of your experience. Now pluck it and savor it and enjoy it. Visualize it, and find the feeling place of it. And live happily ever after, once you get the hang of this.

98

My family didn't have a lot of money, and I'm grateful for that. Money is the longest route to happiness.

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People who grow rich almost always improve their sex life. More people want to have sex with them. That's just the way human beings work. Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac. Money did not make me happy. But it definitely improved my sex life.

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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

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