Being Happy With Life Quotes

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

J. K. Rowling

Inspiring, Happiness, Happy

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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

Dalai Lama, Victor Chan (2012). “The Wisdom of Compassion: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights”, p.11, Random House

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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

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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

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Love, Inspirational, Life

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.112, Wordsworth Editions

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

Oscar Wilde

Funny, Life, Happiness

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

John Lennon

Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Marcus Aurelius

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome), André Dacier, Thomas Gataker (1701). “The Emperor-Marcus Antonius: his conversation with himself. together with the preliminary discourse of the learned Gataker”

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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Aristotle

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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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 take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Carl Jung

Love, Happiness, Sad

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The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

Audrey Hepburn

Life, Happiness, Happy

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

"Humor, Play, & Laughter : Stress-proofing Life with Your Kids" by Joseph A. Michelli, (p. 88), 1998.

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There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Epictetus

Happiness, Happy, Success

Epictetus (2016). “The Philosophy of Epictetus: Golden Sayings and Fragments”, p.87, Courier Dover Publications

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Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Les Brown

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Bill Cosby

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Twitter post from Nov 18, 2009

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Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

John Lennon

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.

Louise Erdrich

Love, Life, Strength

"The Painted Drum". Book by Louise Erdrich, www.npr.org. 2005.

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Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Norman MacEwen

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.

John Lennon

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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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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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

Life, Motivational, Positive

Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Confucius

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.

Brooke Shields

Inspirational, Happy, Wise

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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