Quotes On Happiness

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These quotes on happiness express simple truths that we would all do well to listen to and put into action. Success is good, but without happiness it is an empty experience and can even destroy your life. So reach for your dreams, but never forget to be happy on your journey.  

Quotes On Happiness

• "If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the world belongs to you." Lao Tzu

• "The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, then there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be." Anne Frank

• "Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product." Eleanor Roosevelt

• “Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different." Stacey Charter

• "A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live." Bertrand Russell

• “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” Andy Rooney

• “I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” Groucho Marx

• "True happiness...arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self." Joseph Addison

• "The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment." Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• "Happiness is where we find it, but very rarely where we seek it." J. Petit Senn

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• "If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes." Andrew Carnegie

• The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things. Henry Ward Beecher

• "Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions." Saul Bellow

• “It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.” Dale Carnegie

• “Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other – it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.” Charles Caleb Colton

• "Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change." Friedrich Schiller

• “The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.” Brian Tracy

• "We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier." Walter Savage Landor

• "Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve." Robert Staughton Lynd

• "Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it." Mary Baker Eddy
  

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• "Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect." Alain De Botton

• "Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it." Nathaniel Hawthorne

• “Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed.” Unknow

• “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” Helen Keller

• "When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness." Malcolm Forbes

• “I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.”
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• “Being happy doesn’t mean everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” Unknown

• "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity." Carl Jung

• "Happiness is an inside job." William Arthur Ward

• "You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy any place." Ernie Banks

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