Art Of Happiness Quotes - Page 3

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  Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.101, Vintage

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• Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Happiness, Yoga

  Title of poem (1942)

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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  Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

  Joseph Addison

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Our attitude towards suffering becomes very important because it can affect how we cope with suffering when it arises.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Suffering, Important

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.105, Penguin

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• Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

  John Lubbock

  Happiness, Life And Love, Violin

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• The purpose of our life needs to be positive. We weren't born with the purpose of causing trouble, harming others. For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities - warmth, kindness, compassion. Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful - happier.

  Dalai Lama

  Meaningful, Kindness, Thinking

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.59, Penguin

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• Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Events, Determined

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.33, Penguin

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• Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Believe, You Make Me Happy

  "The Art of Happiness". Book by the Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1998.

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• If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Happy, Women

  "Ethan Frome".

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• There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Buddhist, Inspiration

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh: 365 days of practical, powerful teaching s from the beloved Zen teacher”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

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• So the first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Negative, Firsts

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.43, Penguin

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• Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

  Oscar Levant

  Inspirational, Happiness, Memories

  Time, August 28, 1972.

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• The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  The Friend (1828)

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• Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

  Josh Billings

  Happiness, Happy, Dog

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• Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Happiness, Happy, Wise

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• People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Happy, Summer

  'The Three Sisters' (1901) act 2

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• People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Happiness, Happy, Mean

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• Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Happiness, Literature, Mystery

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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• Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

  Edward de Bono

  Happiness, Positive Attitude, Differences

  In Observer 12 June 1977

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• If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Happiness, Happy

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• The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  "What We Live by". Book by Ernest Dimnet, p. 238, 1932.

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• Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Happiness, Fighting, Fairy Stories

  Alexandre Dumas (2003). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.18, Bantam Classics

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