How To Be Happy Quotes - Page 3

• Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

  Saint Augustine

  Happiness, Happy, Determination

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• Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Witty, Money

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• 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

  Positive, Happiness, Happy

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  Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4990, Delphi Classics

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• Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

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• To become successful, first learn how to be happy. Too many think that the route to happiness is to get successful

  Robin Sharma

  Successful, Thinking, Firsts

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Dec 25, 2013

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• The marriage partner is not really the problem. No other person can ultimately make you happy. You must learn how to be happy within yourself.

  Joel Osteen

  Problem, Make You Happy, Partners

  Joel Osteen (2008). “Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential”, p.296, Hachette UK

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• Success for me is to feel happy - 80 percent of the time. That's been my goal in life. I think that comes from my father. He's a very optimistic, happy person. I'm not quite sure if I'll ever feel this, but I want to know how to be happy. I'm happy when I'm at work. I'm happy when I'm with my family or my dog. But there's always that feeling of, I'm not satisfied. I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.

  January Jones

  Dog, Father, Optimistic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's a strange situation, but people will pay your fare to get you to go and tell them how to be happy.

  Quentin Crisp

  People, Pay, Strange

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I thought I had learned how to have an intimate relationship. And I thought I'd learned how to be happy. Everybody has issues. For me, the challenge is intimacy, but I really didn't start to get that until I turned 60.

  Jane Fonda

  Challenges, Intimacy, Intimate

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• The only failure is not knowing how to be happy."---My Story

  Celine Dion

  Knowing, Not Knowing, Stories

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• Kids aren't supposed to have to figure out how to be happy. They just are.

  Susan Wiggs

  Kids, Figures

  Susan Wiggs (2012). “Summer at Willow Lake: Lakeshore Chronicles”, p.79, Harlequin

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• One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in the science, and I hope to disprove Young's theory that "as soon as we have found the key of life it opes the gates of death." Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead. I never will believe that our youngest days are our happiest. What a miserable augury for the progress of the race and the destination of the individual if the more matured and enlightened state is the less happy one!

  George Eliot

  Believe, Keys, Race

  George Eliot (1954). “The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851”

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• One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy.

  George Eliot

  Happiness, Years

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.50, 谷月社

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• Out on the street I start to run; I need to breathe in this life, the trees, the warmth of my town. I will be able to control my own fate and I will know how to be happy. Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle . . .

  Shan Sa

  Running, Fate, Tree

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• A kid asked me for advise about getting into entertainment? I said you better know how to be happy being broke!

  Donnell Rawlings

  Kids, Entertainment, Broke

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• I remember thinking I just want more. This isn't it. Fame is not the goal. Money is not the goal. To be able to know how to get peace of mind, how to be happy, is something you don't just stumble across. You've got to search for it.

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Goal, Mind

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• No one does. No one really knows how to be happy. You just get close, sometimes. That’s all I want – just to be close.

  Robert Jackson Bennett

  Doe, Want, Sometimes

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• If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Unhappy, Sometimes, Know How

  Madeleine L'Engle, Linda Beech (1997). “A Wrinkle in Time”, p.11, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's easy to sit on a mountaintop and tell people what to do and how to be happy. I have chosen to do that. Not because it's easy, but for a different reason, which I would reveal, if your mind was ready to handle it, which it isn't, which is also very convenient for me.

  Eugene Mirman

  People, Mind, Different

  Eugene Mirman (2009). “The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• I felt pissed off because I realized that you have to teach people in a clichéd way how to be happy-and happiness has become too one thing in American media. Achieving happiness is not really about having a flat stomach and the best car.

  M.I.A.

  Media, People, Car

  "Kehinde Wiley". Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.

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• You have to realize: OK, I don't know how to solve a political problem, I don't know how to solve the pollution problem... all I know is in my own life, I need to figure out some sense of purpose, I need to figure out how to be happy... and I'm willing.

  Jewel

  Political, Needs, Purpose

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• I hold those wise who know how to be happy.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Wise, Wisdom, Joy

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• Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dog, Pet, Spirit

  Pablo Neruda, “A Dog Has Died”

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• Happiness is NOW! It isn't tomorrow. It isn't yesterday. Happiness is like a morning glory: Yesterday's won't bloom again; tomorrow's hasn't opened yet. Only today's flower can be enjoyed today. Be happy this very moment, and you'll learn how to be happy always.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Happiness, Morning, Flower

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