Being Happy Quotes - Page 20

• Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Happiness, Happy, Running

  James Freeman Clarke (1877). “The hour which cometh, and now is: sermons”

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• When you are happy, you feel the sunshine even inside the fog; when you are unhappy, you feel the fog even in the sunshine.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sunshine, Fog, Unhappy

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• It is not true that if we had true faith we would not be sad. Prophets (as), and righteous people experienced a great deal of sadness. The Quran is full of stories in which the central theme is sadness. Sadness is a reality of life. The Quran is not there to eliminate sadness, but to navigate it. Sadness is one of the tests of life, just as happiness, and anger are tests.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Sadness, Reality, People

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• Your feelings come from where you find your hope. Where is your happiness and your significance?

  Timothy Keller

  Feelings, Significance

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• I'm now nearly 79. At 16 I took responsibility for Tibet and lost my freedom. At 24 I lost my country and became a refugee. I've met difficulties, but as the saying goes: 'Wherever you're happy, you can call home, and whoever is kind to you is like your parents.' I've been happy and at home in the world at large. Living a meaningful life isn't just a matter of money; it's about dedicating your life to helping others.

  Dalai Lama

  Meaningful, Country, Home

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• The key to life is to be happy with or without money. Money only magnifies who you really are.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Keys, Life Is

  Twitter post from Jun 19, 2013

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• I think we all mistake certain things for happiness. I think we mistake comfort for happiness and we mistake pleasure for happiness, and entertainment for happiness, when really these are just things we use as proxies for our happiness. We use them to cheer us up or try and achieve brief happiness, when really happiness is something much more profound and long lasting and exists within us.

  Simon Pegg

  Cheer, Mistake, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Simon Pegg from Aug 11, 2014

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• If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.

  Jim Rohn

  Past, Thinking, Decision

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Aug 16, 2012

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• One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it - incredibly.

  Ajahn Chah

  Philosophy, Blow, Wind

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• It is my fundamental conviction that compassion - the natural capacity of the human heart to feel concern for and connection with another human being - constitutes a basic aspect of our nature shared by all human beings, as well as being the foundation of our happiness. All ethical teachings, whether religious or nonreligious, aim to nurture this innate and precious quality, to develop it and to perfect it.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Teaching, Heart

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• I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.

  Storm Jameson

  Cities, Invisible, Ifs

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 1: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.98, A&C Black

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• It's your time for a breakthrough! Make up your mind to leave the past and the old you behind. Focus on giving birth to a new you....the real you. It is your time to create a turning point for the better in your life. It is your destiny to be healthy, happy and successful.Your future is open, full of possibility and promise! Buckle down and do whatever is required to create a life that you are proud of and a life that you deserve! Don't look back!! Look ahead, move forward and make this your best year ever! You have the something special. You have GREATNESS within you!

  Les Brown

  Real, Moving, Successful

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• My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Love, Funny, Life

  "Rodney Dangerfield" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2004.

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• My goal in life is to be as happy as a studio audience.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Goal, Comedy

  FaceBook post by Jim Gaffigan from Feb 05, 2013

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• There are two kinds of happiness - the temporary pleasure derived primarily from material comfort alone and another more enduring comfort that results from the thorough transformation and development of the mind. We can see in our own lives that the latter form of happiness is superior because when our mental state is calm and happy, we can easily put up with minor pains and physical discomforts. On the other hand, when our mind is restless and upset, the most comfortable physical facilities do not make us happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Hands, Two

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• Make happiness a habit. Be so happy you drive the devil stark-raving mad.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mad, Devil, Habit

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• When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Change, Happy, Moving

  "Unkempt Thoughts". Book by Stanisław Jerzy Lec, translated by Jacek Galazka, 1962.

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• Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.10, Modern Library

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• In true love you want your partner to be happy.
  In false love you want your partner.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love You, False Love, Want

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• Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

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• Happiness is a direction, not a place.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Happiness, Happy, True Happiness

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• Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.279, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Peace, Kings

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• In life, one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day-or to celebrate each special day.

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Motivational, Thankful, Gratitude

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• A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

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