Quotes on Happiness: Find Joy in Every Day - Page 36

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Image of Michel de Montaigne
Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.
- Michel de Montaigne
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Image of Aesop
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
- Aesop
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He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another.
- Aesop
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Image of Jim Rohn
Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.
- Jim Rohn
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Image of William Wordsworth
Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
- William Wordsworth
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Image of George Bernard Shaw
Happiness and Beauty are by-products.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Image of Leo Tolstoy
Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.
- Leo Tolstoy
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Image of Sylvia Plath
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.
- Sylvia Plath
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Image of Dennis Prager
If you equate happiness with success, you will never achieve the amount of success necessary to make you happy.
- Dennis Prager
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Image of William Blake
To create a little flower is the labour of ages.
- William Blake
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Image of Blaise Pascal
Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
- Blaise Pascal
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Image of Rumi
If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.
- Rumi
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Image of Robert Louis Stevenson
To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Image of John Ralston Saul
Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.
- John Ralston Saul
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Image of Anna Quindlen
Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness because if you do you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
- Anna Quindlen
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Image of Alan Watts
If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.
- Alan Watts
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Image of Jonathan Haidt
Good relationships make people happy, and happy people enjoy more and better relationships than unhappy people.... Conflicts in relationships--having an annoying office mate or roommate, or having chronic conflict with your spouse--is one of the surest ways to reduce your happiness. You never adapt to interpersonal conflict; it damages every day, even days when you don't see the other person but ruminate about the conflict nonetheless.
- Jonathan Haidt
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Image of Jonathan Haidt
Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.
- Jonathan Haidt
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Image of George Sand
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
- George Sand
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Image of Arthur Schopenhauer
The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Image of Blaise Pascal
All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.
- Blaise Pascal
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Image of Oscar Wilde
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
- Oscar Wilde
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Image of Seneca the Younger
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
- Seneca the Younger
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Image of Seneca the Younger
A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary
- Seneca the Younger
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Image of Jillian Michaels
We all have to work for happiness. And you cannot listen to other people. That is the worst mistake you can make.
- Jillian Michaels
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Iyanla Vanzant
It's time for you to move, realizing that the thing you are seeking is also seeking you.
- Iyanla Vanzant
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Image of Oscar Wilde
But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
- Oscar Wilde
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Image of William Wordsworth
But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for humankind, Is happy as a lover.
- William Wordsworth
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Image of William Wordsworth
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.
- William Wordsworth
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Image of Bertrand Russell
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
- Bertrand Russell
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Image of Mark Twain
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
- Mark Twain
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Image of Mark Twain
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
- Mark Twain
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Image of Joyce Meyer
Victory is not the absence of problems, it is the presence of power.
- Joyce Meyer
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Image of Simone de Beauvoir
If you haven't been happy very young, you can still be happy later on, but it's much harder. You need more luck.
- Simone de Beauvoir
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Image of Ayn Rand
Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.
- Ayn Rand
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Image of Swami Vivekananda
Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow.
- Swami Vivekananda
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Image of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Image of Seneca the Younger
Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
- Seneca the Younger
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Image of John Milton
Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?
- John Milton
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Image of Brad Pitt
I'm not a big proponent of happiness. I think it's highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There's so much value in that. You can't have one without the other.
- Brad Pitt
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Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Image of Edward Albee
Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
- Edward Albee
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Image of Virginia Woolf
Safe! safe! safe!' the pulse of the house beats wildly. Waking, I cry 'Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.
- Virginia Woolf
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Image of Swami Vivekananda
Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.
- Swami Vivekananda
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