Quotes on Happiness: Find Joy in Every Day - Page 3

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Image of Hugo Black
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
- Hugo Black
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Image of Waheeda Rehman
I am extremely satisfied and content. I am happy and I think happiness is enough for everything.
- Waheeda Rehman
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Image of Benjamin Disraeli
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Image of Julia Roberts
Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.
- Julia Roberts
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Image of Mary McCormack
I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.
- Mary McCormack
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Image of Dale Carnegie
Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
- Dale Carnegie
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Image of Lee Hyeon-seo
Breathing in South Korea, even though the life here is not easy, makes me so happy. I feel that sitting in a coffee shop, having a cup of tea, and looking out of the window at the blue sky - this is happiness. Truly happiness.
- Lee Hyeon-seo
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Image of Son Heung-min
Football is my happiness.
- Son Heung-min
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Image of D. B. Weiss
Who doesn't love 'Frogger?' It draws its power from our shared memories of powerlessness. Wherever we are now, at one time or another we have all felt the poor frog's anxiety in the face of the world's intransigence, its blind and callous disregard for our happiness or well-being.
- D. B. Weiss
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Image of Viktor E. Frankl
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'
- Viktor E. Frankl
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Image of Seal
The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.
- Seal
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Image of Marquis de Lafayette
During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, thinking of the one that would probably occur in France, I said in a speech to Congress, published everywhere except in the 'French Gazette,' 'May this revolution serve as a lesson to oppressors and as an example to the oppressed!'
- Marquis de Lafayette
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Image of Maxwell Maltz
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
- Maxwell Maltz
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Image of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Image of Logic
If you don't wake up and have your own thing, whether it's writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or singing or being a mother or a father, something that drives you, then it's all worth nothing. One of the key elements in happiness is purpose.
- Logic
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Image of Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man 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
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Image of Joyce Grenfell
There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy.
- Joyce Grenfell
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Image of Thomas S. Monson
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.
- Thomas S. Monson
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Image of Leo Tolstoy
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
- Leo Tolstoy
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Image of Thich Nhat Hanh
It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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Image of Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Image of Mark Goulston
If there was one key to happiness in love and life and possibly even success, it would be to go into each conversation you have with this commandment to yourself front and foremost in your mind, 'Just Listen' and be more interested than interesting, more fascinated than fascinating, and more adoring than adorable.
- Mark Goulston
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Image of Epictetus
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
- Epictetus
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Image of Andrew Solomon
I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.
- Andrew Solomon
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Image of Queen Victoria
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
- Queen Victoria
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Image of John Burroughs
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
- John Burroughs
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Image of Jane Austen
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
- Jane Austen
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Image of Alexander Alekhine
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
- Alexander Alekhine
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Image of James Hillman
Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.
- James Hillman
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Image of Frederick Delius
There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.
- Frederick Delius
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Image of Robert Green Ingersoll
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
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Image of Helen Keller
Many 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
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Image of Tara Stiles
The first rule of negotiation is to always be willing to walk away from the deal. The first rule of happiness is to not be attached to pleasing moments.
- Tara Stiles
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Image of Louis D. Brandeis
America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
- Louis D. Brandeis
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Image of Hermann Hesse
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age.
- Hermann Hesse
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Image of Hosea Ballou
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
- Hosea Ballou
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Image of Eckhart Tolle
People 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
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Image of Dada Vaswani
True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.
- Dada Vaswani
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Image of Alun Wyn Jones
Happiness is dangerous. If you're happy, you're content, and if you're content, you can become complacent.
- Alun Wyn Jones
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Image of Mark Manson
Everything has an opportunity cost, and the big things we want in life - like happiness and healthy relationships and wealth - they all have big opportunity costs.
- Mark Manson
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Image of Rohini Nilekani
Most disciplines invite us to more mindfulness, and more contentment. Not by consuming more externally, but by harvesting more from within, and by sharing more without. Neurosciences and behavioural sciences increasingly corroborate this ancient wisdom - joy can come from giving, and unlimited happiness from bonhomie.
- Rohini Nilekani
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Image of William Hall
The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected.
- William Hall
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Image of George Bernard Shaw
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Image of A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Image of Horace Silver
Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.
- Horace Silver
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Image of Sydney Smith
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
- Sydney Smith
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Image of Robert Baden-Powell
Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don't recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.
- Robert Baden-Powell
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Image of Walter Savage Landor
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
- Walter Savage Landor
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Image of Bill Bailey
I think happiness really happens when you least expect it: it's when you're not really thinking about it, when you're not trying to achieve it, when you're not trying to get the perfect holiday, the perfect life, the perfect body, the perfect existence.
- Bill Bailey
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